“Star Wish Homeward Voyage” poem by Wan Yilong

Translated By Lan Xin

World Memory Heritage The Only Female Inheritor of Dongba Culture, International Renowned Writer & Poet. Internationally acclaimed bilingual writer, poet and translator, member of the Chinese Writers Association. The only female inheritor of UNESCO-listed Dongba Culture, International Disseminator of Dongba Culture and practitioner of Chinese culture’s global outreach. Winner of the Italian Francesco Giampietri International Literary Award, President of Lanxin Samei Academy and Dean of Yulong Wenbi Dongba Culture Academy.

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Αποκλειστικη Eκπρόσωπος για την Ελλάδα για την προώθηση της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς – Dongba Culture Κίνα

Star Wish Homeward Voyage

My dearest love
Tonight the starry river stretches boundless wide
I stand alone upon the snow capped peak
With eyes filled with merciful light
Gazing down on all mortal lives
Witnessing the bleakness of the earthly world

Hundreds of millions of years ago
I was a ray of original starlight hidden deep within the cosmos
Endowed with peerless pure grace
Holding a heart burning bright like diamond fire
Just to run straight toward you
I put on layer after layer of mortal flesh and shell
Just to cling to my love for you
I stumbled forward through endless dark nights

I still remember your high cloud like hair and star bright piercing eyes
Remember your snow white flowing dress and dancing waving sleeves
Remember your crimson lips and skin smooth as frozen jade
You move light as wind drift soft as cloud
I always keep this deep inside my soul
You too are the same kindred starlight fallen into mortal dust.

Let my soul burn repeatedly in purgatory flames
Enduring countless torments and bitter pains
Let my physical body shatter into tiny dust
Weathering all the frosts and winds of endless years
Still through countless cycles of rebirth
I hold fast waiting faithfully for your figure

This mortal world is forever filled with vicissitudes and sorrow
War flames tear apart peaceful days
Illness gnaws and hurts human spines
All living beings drift weep struggle and wander in the bitter sea of suffering

The earth appears tiny and fragile amid the boundless universe
Just a single grain of sand lonely and desolate in the cosmic river
Only pure mortal love and great mercy for all living souls
Can turn this troubled earthly world
Into a gentle warm paradise

My dearest love
The stargate has slowly opened wide
Across the grand universe countless living beings stand together
Hand in hand we set off journeying side by side
Toward the high dimensional homeland bathed in eternal endless light
This is the original hometown where you and I shall stay together through all eternal lives