The star wouldn't shine,
no matter how much he asked it to
The night sky was an ocean of black,
-Time and sky were rushing over his head
The delicate stillness of the stars hung overhead,
Like a lit up crystal chandelier
He was underneath the enormity of night,
Sitting on his back porch
There were colours in the darkness, and
he was swimming in the night air
Lightning bugs illuminated the fields,
like sparks pouring off of Vulcan's anvil-
Like a thousand Japanese lanterns
That was on the evening that his father died,
a thousand years ago, it seems
A thousand stars ago, it seems
For he wished on a thousand stars since then
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem