From: Alternate Universe Today Archivist <creative-archive@anxst.com>
Subject: AT WHAT PRICE? by Lynne Ann Morse
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 03:25:32 -0700


name = Lynne Ann Morse
email = morselya@indigo.ie
title = 
warnings = (none)
story = (from the author of "Little Things", something a little
different... the poem
is actually set to a melody, published in the fanzine for Garibaldi Fanz
Online; direct your browsers here for more info 
http://tripod.members.com/~b5fanatic/GaribaldiFanz/index.html)

AT WHAT PRICE?
Lynne Ann Morse

At what price, the safety of our people?
Are we to live, no matter the cost?
What matters then, at the battle's end
As we survey the field
With our soul in darkness lost?

To ensure the freedom of the Corps,
We make tools of other sentient life.
What the left hand does, the right ignores,
'till they seek justice with a knife.

There's a debt owed to a man of good heart,
In secret turned to darkest of deeds.
His soul laid bare, without a care,
To put the damage right.
Hear me well: from acts like these
Does hatred breed.

(Written in response to the Babylon 5 episode "Face of the Enemy", though
it does just as well for "Phoenix Rising", in retrospect.)

(PS -- I am not subscribed to this list, so please e-mail responses to me,
if it's not too much trouble! Thanks in advance and thanks for reading!)
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