The Five-Year Mission by Dr Leonard McCoy

[Nagini-snake]

The night before I went to space
I had a dream of what it would be like.
Worlds crumbled.
Darkness fell.
The stars failed.

I went to space
In any case.

And –

Worlds crumbled.
Mister Spock
Did not flinch.

Darkness fell.
But it spared
A tired man.

The stars failed
To outshine
Jim Kirk’s eyes.

-- beastlyanachronism