This work shows the collision between the natural light created by God and the light created by man.The city dwellers live in artificial dazzling light and are very concerned that they will lose their eternal life by moving away from the world of eternal light because they cannot see the starry sky.
Stars and city people
by Choi Paul-Yearn
Living without seeing the stars in the sky
would be similar to living without knowing poetry.
Long ago in a dark night when the owner fell asleep
a cow took off rein and eat too much rice soaked
in a wide brass barrel, and died.
would not the living without seeing the stars
be compared to the death in the dark of ignorance?
Stars of the city could not penetrate the huge roof of
brilliant and dazzling lights created by humans
and produce ever no drop of bright dew and go back
wandering all night in the dark sky above the roof.
City people living without knowing that stars’ sadness
are souls blinded because of the dazzling lights
by seeing no stars to be lack of natural light God made
Maybe they are heading for the eternal darkness
in the building forest moonlight less than fireflies lights.
City people do not look at the night sky of no stars
which are twingcling like the symbols of lives
Therefore they will live without dreaming of
the stars’ mystery kingdom in the infinite space.
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)