Title: Muse
Author: Vesper (Regina)
E-mail: vespertanmer@yahoo.com
Warnings: none
Category: ST:ENT, romance, angst
Codes: R/S
Summary: Every man in love tries it at least once.
Disclaimer: Star Trek belongs to Paramount.
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Notes: Because Georgia O'Keefe's "Red Cannas" made me think of
Hoshi and because I wrote some awful poetry.

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They're just words. Just words. If that's so, then why is it so
difficult to make them say what he wants? How can he capture in
cold, hard prose something that teases at him everyday in the
glance of her eyes, in the fall of her hair, in her soft voice?

But it isn't prose and that's the problem. Every word he thinks
of is beautiful, just like her, and every word he thinks of stays
that way--only thought and never said.

Communication, she would say, is more than that, Malcolm. He
smiles a little at her voice in his head. Just like her, always
pushing, always willing to go through obstacles, no shrinking
violet, she. He answers back, silently, I'm trying, Hoshi.

Two years and he still struggles to find the words. He has an
image of her that is so fanciful, so romantic, it startles him
sometimes to even consider it. Common sense would say she isn't
this, but he still sees her as tall and strong and passionate in
color and spirit as a red canna lily.

It is an image that makes him wish for an ability he's always
admired, yet knows he'll never be able to achieve.

So many words to choose from. So many different combinations--
complicated, simple, intricate, straightforward. All in an
attempt to say one thing.

The words, so expressive in his head, become flat and empty when
he writes them down. He reads them over and reaches out. One
press of the button and all the glowing words disappear.

She wouldn't want to read what he's written, anyway.

End.