Ever-Changing Clouds Thin And Light Poem by East Sea Fairy Xing Yi

By QIN GUAN Translated by East-sea Fairy

Ever-changing are the clouds thin and light.
Deliver the lovesick sorrows the shooting stars in the sky.
I cross the distant boundless Milk Way tonight
on the sly.
Against the autumnal wind high,
on the Double Seventh Night with heavy white dew
meet you and I.
Our once-a-year meetings far outdo
the false stay-togethers of the mortal couples who are not pairs true.

We confide to each other our lovesick ache and aspiration.
Tender you are to me and gentle I to you.
Dreamy like a delusion
is our fleeting rendezvous.
When it us to say each other adieu
I can't bear to view
the Magpie Passage. So long as we stay forever as glue,
there is no need for us two
to lust for staying together inseparably as glue.