Star of the Orient (Stella d'Oriente)

1. Star of the orient

2. Oh magic Star of the Orient, I invoke thee: show him the way back to my arms!

3. His nearness lasted just an instant

4. but it was enough to mark my life forever.

5. Oh Star of the Orient, keep his love alive and please, make him return to me!

6. Every day I thus appealed the Star

7. until one night, in my dreams, she softly spoke to me and said, “what you long for cannot be done, love cannot be forced on a heart.”

8. Rimasi attonita e perplessa, sapevo che era vero, ma quando si desi-dera qualcosa così fortemente le ragioni del cuore hanno il sopravvento su quelle della ragione. Astounded and confused I acknowledged the truth. However, when love is wished so vehemently the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

9. So I still waited, consumed with grief, recalling those brief instants of nearness.

10. I asked the wind to breathe my loving caress on him.

11. I wanted to become the night so I could watch him sleeping.

12. I sent him a dove as a messenger of my thoughts.

13. It was to no avail.

14. All my love was not enough to warm his heart.

15. As days passed by, vain hopes became grim realities and my smile waned.

16. Hope gave way to reason. Perhaps it was written so.

17. Feelings that I had thought mutual were only mine.

18. With the heart in a whirl I supplicated again, “Oh Star of the Orient, please make me a small cloud of smoke so I can see him for a moment, and then I’ll disappear!”

19. Once more the Star spoke to me in my dreams, “What you ask for exceeds the power of my magic,

20. but I can do something that may allow you to stay with him for a long time.”

21. And so she transformed me into a memory. Text: Gina Fazi Graphic Work: GiEffebis@alice.it Original pictures: Abraxsis Derjen English: mussonor@gmail.com