Falling Stars

Do you remember still the falling starsthat like swift horses through the heavens racedand suddenly leaped across the hurdlesof our wishes—do you recall?

And wedid make so many!

For there were countless numbersof stars: each time we looked above we wereastounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and securewatching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming