Beauty Of The Stars

Beauty Of The Stars
© Surazeus
2024 11 26

While trudging cement streets among steel towers, 
I look up beyond large engine-rumbling cars 
to see past wires and advertising signs 
graceful figure of Kwan Yin in silk gown 
floating through sun-illuminated clouds 
whose black eyes blaze with beauty of the stars. 

Elegant Goddess of Mercy extends 
ten billion hands that glow with pearls of light 
to bless each human trudging on the Earth 
with heavenly bliss of enchanting love 
that fills our hearts with joyful breath of life 
so we all sing with beauty of the stars. 

The woman huddled in apartment room 
after escaping her abusive husband 
feels depressive cloud of misery lift 
at sudden gleam of merciful respect 
that dispels ache of regret from her heart 
so she smiles softly with beauty of the stars. 

The old man crouched in dirty alleyway 
behind the clean bank where he used to work, 
shivers with feverish hunger for bread, 
yet feels strange glow of sorrow in his chest 
swell into compassion of honest hope 
when he contemplates beauty of the stars. 

The little girl hiding in hollow cave 
formed by rubble heap of her bombed-out home 
pulls tattered shawl tighter around her shoulder 
as she eats apple sauce from opened can 
and smiles at near-fleshless skull of her mother 
while she sings about beauty of the stars. 

The young man clutching rifle to his chest 
tells rotting corpses of his wife and children 
the Russian tanks rumbling past did not crush 
apple trees they planted two years ago, 
then he hurls grenade which blows up the tank 
in red blossom with beauty of the stars. 

The young nurse, relaxing after hard work 
all day at the hospital, wipes her eyes 
of bitter tears while her three children play 
with coloring books in the evening dusk, 
then sighs and writes poem about motherhood 
which highlights secret beauty of the stars. 

Gliding on cloud of mercy around Earth, 
Kwan Yin beams warm rays of heart-healing love 
to ease our suffering of loss and despair, 
so billions of people raise up their eyes 
to see her spirit turning pain to pleasure 
which lights our world with beauty of the stars.