Southern Cross Poem by Padma Devkota

Two pointers and five stars connected with a purpose
means they were evocative to the Seer of meaning
who found an emu or a possum or an eagle or whatever
he saw at the moment which he eternalized. I for one
so desirous of seeing you have not been granted vision;
instead, a veil has been cast by the winter-spring sky
for ages since the birth of desire. I dream of a flying kite
with two bright finger tips of light trying to catch it
like it were a breakfast cookie to be dipped in mirth.
I shall wait. O, how I long to see your light fall
on the lake of my heart, which like the eye
of imagination recreates you in loveliest forms
of virginal purity discovered and unexplored.
Adorers shall bear you on their banners
down vistas of posterity in nation-idolizing zeal.
I want you to shine on in the sky, Crux! Shine on!
I shall seek you from the north with my heart
I shall find you in my life though the earth
keeps us far apart with her blue curvature.
For I know we believe in what we create:
meaning, purpose, life or gods and fate.