Word Count: 511
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Rating: K+
Category: Relationships
Pairing/Focus: Kara/Lee
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Summary: Summary A poem and analysis...
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Lee and Kara
They are the relationship of the tide to the shore, Where one recedes, the other advances, Always pursuing then running away by turns, Playing or crashing, But never completely calm -
There are too many things swimming beneath, Thought creatures that may break the surface at any time. Whether it be with the chatter of dolphin play Or an enormous truth emerging with shocking suddenness, Leaving a bone-deep song in it's wake
Treasure lies waiting, In skeleton ships But at what cost is it present? And what for taking it? Some secrets have rows and rows of teeth
The two are equally strong, For the land will allow the sea only so much And then no further. The sea will not be discouraged, After an age of persistance, even stone must give way.
A sea-bird calls, Witness to their loneliness when the tide departs, Pulled away by powerful unseen forces, Leaving sharp-edged keepsakes of fragile shells. Until the waters return again to land's embrace.
Secret-entangled seaweed tendrils hold them fast together They bleed into each other Into places that are neither and both of them, But even apart, they are always touching, They were never seperate.
Space is an ocean...
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Analysis of “Quantification,”
I think Lee is land and Kara is sea...land is solidity, practicality - and water is emotion, which changes constantly - just as strong, but totally different. Land has layers and layers, some hard, some softer, it has buried secrets and hidden jewels, but you have to dig to find them, outside he is stable, with fault lines hidden underneath, he wishes he could move as naturally as her...
Her secrets emerge without warning like playing dolphins or a massive whale, she's full of undercurrents and little fish schools of impulses and pretty hidden things, as well as wrecked ships and the souls of the dead, there are mysterious caves within her that may hold something breathtaking, or rows and rows of teeth. Like water, if there is a way, any way, she will get there...she will infiltrate or overcome but you can't destroy her and you can't keep her out. The memories she leaves in her wake, sharp-edged fragile shells are bits of herself, a promise she will return.
All relationships move like tides, you're either closer or farther away than you were yesterday or last year or five minutes ago...if it will last, you always return. Some "relation-SHIPS" will drown you. But Lee and Kara are always connected somewhere, all rivers lead to the sea, like a blood system. He's the body and she's the blood system and they need each other.
Even when the tide is out, even when they are seperated - somewhere, some place they are always touching, connected - they were never seperate at all, it only seems that way to those who don't have a view of Earth from space to see the BIG picture. And space is an ocean too.
-Michelle