Sunny Star

a father’s son should look like him;
a black dog can’t birth a white cat,
a headless man can’t wear a hat.
the law is solemn, it’s a hymn.

when a star
chooses to become a sun,
it is clear;
the sun fornicated
with the night sky.
the moon is red with anger.

an astronomer on a mat
stares a wife with such a stern grim
spits on the sand for ants to swim,
tells her her child will be a brat.

it is no lie,
what goes around
comes around,
sometimes with extra good or bad,
depending on the seed
that was buried in the sand.

sawf tabdu najmat mithl alshams
‘iidha zunat alshams alsama

Younglan Talyoung