From 102454.540@compuserve.com Sun Aug  4 01:57:31 1996
Date: 31 Jul 96 14:38:06 EDT
From: Jackie May <102454.540@compuserve.com>
To: b5-creative@lists.best.com
Subject: Z'Ha'Dum (poem)

Hi, everyone, here's another poem for you.  You'll probably
figure out pretty quickly who's narrating and what's going
on.
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Z'Ha'Dum

I left the ones I've come to love
To meet the ones I've come to hate
The sky oppresses close above--
no turning back; this is my fate.
And the evil hangs in the reddish gloom
Here on the Rim, at Z'Ha'Dum.

I know for sure this war is bad
The scheme of things is twisted, wrong
The world is sick; the world is mad
My death will help.  It won't be long.
With the silence loud as a cosmic boom
Here on the Rim, at Z'Ha'Dum.

So long ago I made this vow
My only goal: to find my wife
But standing on ground zero now
It's not for her I give my life--
But the stench of death is a strong perfume
Here on the Rim, at Z'Ha'Dum.

So many things I should have done--
"Delenn, Delenn," I want to cry
Our love was good, though scarce begun
We could be happy, she and I
But I know this place is to be my tomb
Here on the Rim, at Z'Ha'Dum.

I hear a sound, a hellish shriek
My mind recoils in quick denial
I cannot move, I cannot speak
And, closing in, the Shadows smile...
Here on the Rim, at Z'Ha'Dum--
I scream and wake in a darkened room.

	The End	

Jackie May <102454.540@compuserve.com>