When first we met

I saw your lovely eyes look into mine

Then dart away for just an instant

To the part of me that says "he is different"

Embarrassed, you try to hide the fact that you’d noticed

You would not want to hurt my feelings

How droll

Speak it out

The question I read in your eyes

Why is he set this way apart from me?

Is there really a pointed difference between us?

If you this question pose to me

I’ll answer you as best I can

Although the limits of your mind will not adjust to compute the technicalities

Of my world’s inheritance

For Vulcan is not your mother Earth

It is the world I grew up in

As far removed from yours as worlds can be

The wonder is that I communicate with you at all

For deep within me

Are the differences you cannot see

The differences that are my shields against the love and hate

That weaken you and make you vulnerable

And yet

I will admit

There stirs in me a curiosity to know these feelings

For if just once I could command the change in me

And come to know them

Perhaps I’d comprehend what makes you what you are

And in reverse

If you could live for just a moment

In my world

And recognize what makes me what I am

Perhaps that would the catalyst be

To harmonize the difference between you and me