O Myriad Stars Hanging In Heavens! Poem by sundaram chandrakalaadhar

O..myriad stars hanging in heavens !
I shed tears for you!

At nights you give out your all
to sprinkle your meagre lights
and faintly speak in lonely hours!

What use is of your spoonfuls of light
scarce even to illumine your homes?

At inconceivable distances
in infinite numbers
you bloom in mind-boggling sizes
to shower your grandeur!

In such an absolute mess
how to relish your beauty I puzzle!

Each one majestic and mighty more
than our smallest 'sun'!

Yet you fail to walk its steps
of quelling the darkness-
to shatter our fears-

What if you too learn the art of the 'sky king'
that enlivens the hues?

You are contemptuously swept away
in the morning lights' rollicking floods!

Come relaively near
to caress our earth!

Of what use your passionate looks
and love chants at distances
even minds fail to make?