Found in a crumpled ball on the floor outside Mel's Quarters

In the depths of space,
another dimension.
Energy shifting glowing lace,
Alone with my tension.
 
An affection blooms,
A woman tender yet wild.
Still uncertainty looms,
Another man’s child.
 
Wishing a thing true,
Does not make it so.
A relationship so new,
Where will her heart go?
 
A home and family I have never known,
These things replaced by brothers in arms.
Always at the orders of others I have flown,
Distance shielding the heart from love’s harms.
 
From here is a path I never have walked,
Matters of the heart being so foreign.
Yet the path before me will not be balked,
Wing of light sending my heart soaring.
 
If uncertainty my heart slays,
It will surely be my fault,
To ensure ahead brighter days,
For her I will not halt.
 
So I say hide not your face,
But walk proud and tall.
Tears fall not from a weak place,
But from catharsis for us all.
 
 
Handwritten in an unsteady hand.