Astral Identity
by Lucian Boboc
I
was born
on a meteoroid
in collapse.
Transported urgently
to the galactic hospital,
it didn’t survive...
... and I was forgotten
among the stars,
in the care
of the Milky Way.
Copyright © 1999, Lucian Boboc
English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Image Credit: Copyright © Alexandru Conu
Romanian teacher Lucian Boboc is a meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database. He was named the youth laureate for astropoetry at the first Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM in 1996.