To Boldly Go...

 

I saw you last night

while streaming Netflix with our boy:

Star Trek “Enterprise”

fourth and final season,

final episode—

Commander Charles “Trip” Tucker, a series favorite,

self-taught, funny, wore his heart on his sleeve—

makes a conscious choice to protect those he loves. 

Even as he is rushed to sick bay 

and loaded into the hyperbaric chamber

he turns and gives a wink and a smile;

through his pain still trying to put others at ease.

And in that millisecond I saw you,

that same wink, that same smile

kidding with the nurses as you tried to ease our pain.

I guess even in fictional space, folks 

do what they do for the people they love,

just as we did for each other

—just as you did for us

 

© GB 2021

Not poetry, just thoughts to paper...because sometimes things must be written.