*Cassiopiea, Pericles, Aldeberan and Scorpius are constellations that abound in the nothern hemisphere of the globe and sometimes besides even the haze of city lights....when the power goes as it does more than often these days in the land where I am, perhaps much better than many other humans in other places of the world. These contellations have always fascinated me from my childhood days along with my love for literature and history, aesthetic marvels, artistic beauties and above all The God Almighty....I have described that these constellations were made famous by the blind Greek poet Homer who gave Greek heroes and heroines and even demons and other petty things a name of a constellation....he was maybe inspired by The God Almighty to make them (The Greek heroes and heroines, kings, queens, warriors, damsels fair and even demons and devilish animals and clowns.
This poem is in fact an expression of my most hidden desire....a wish which seemed would be fulfilled more than two decades ago but for my father's own plans and his decision which no one in the family could question. Fate parted me from the only girl I fell in love with at first sight. I have promised a poetess friend here that I won't mention much about her or write about her in my poems. So I have to be silent. This poetess friend is a gem of a woman whose love for me is beyond the description of words. Yet even she is far, far away...so I was inspired to compare my loneliness with the lonely summer night. I hope readers like it.
