iambic pentameter is hard

[jmtorres]

Teaser of the Vulcan romance epic I'm writing excerpts from:

Daughter of T'Les, T'Pol learned stories
of the stars at her mother's knee.
T'Les passed on the family tales, her mother's
mother's adventures in service of
the High Command. T'Mir, foremother of
T'Les, had gone to Earth before their first
warp flight, before they reached their moon, before
they had sent probes out to the stars, all calling:
Hello, we are human. Ad astra
per aspera. Here is our star. Come find us,
bravely, blindly seeking, knowing not
who would reply. That Vulcans were those ones
was fortunate for Earth—and filled T'Pol's
young heart with triumph, so possessive of
the world she thought of as T'Mir's was she.
She felt that Earth awaited her, a destined
and inherited domain she would
someday explore, just as T'Mir had done.