From s.phillips25@genie.com Tue Dec 24 22:15:38 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 96 23:11:00 GMT
From: s.phillips25@genie.com
To: b5-creative@lists.best.com
Subject: "Gone"

Folks, this is to help leaven the pot a bit from Convergence.  It is,
somewhat, a spoiler for "Z'ha'dum"....so fi you don't want to be spoiled,
don't read it.  I think the narrator will be obvious.

I will include spoiler space.












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Gone
 by Sue Phillips



Gone.
 Wiped like chalk from my mind.
 A presence I never knew was there,
 Yet comforting all the same.
 A shoulder to cry on
 A wall to lean on
 Gone.

The station's so empty now.
 With you gone.
 Half a million humans and aliens
 And there isn't one that fills the void.
 The station's so empty now.
 My mind is empty.

War is hell.
 That's what they've always said.
 But the war itself isn't the hell.
 It's the surviving.
 It's going on with a part of you missing
 Made worse when you didn't know it was connected.

The station's so empty now.
 The nights are so long.
 It's always night in space, I know
 The difference is I carry night inside now
 Always.

Gone.
 Worse than I thought.
 Both gone.
 Both my anchors, neither telling me
 Just knowing I would know
 Knowing I would know that they were
 Following their hearts
 Doing what was right.

Damn them!
 Damn them all!

The worst is that I do know
 And that I would do the same
 Must do the same
 To carry on
 To continue the work
 To continue the fight

But the station's so empty.