RENONCEMENT

Il marche seul, les pieds traînant dans la poussière,

sur ces chemins ne menant plus nulle part.

Le corps, vidé de l'âme, dans l'ultime prière,

n'a plus la force de crier l'espoir.

Il avait cru un jour en ses douces chimères,

peignant les rêves, noyant les cauchemars,

mais son ombre jalouse obscurcit ses lumières,

l'abandonnant à sa triste mémoire.

Les regrets dont les larmes ont séché les rivières

coulent sur ses joues meurtries dans le noir.

Il a renié l'amour et ses joies éphémères

pour perdre son cœur mourant dans le soir.

RENUNCIATION

Alone he walks, feet trailing in the dust,

along these roads that lead to nowhere any more.

The body, drained of soul, in last prayer's fragile trust,

no longer finds the strength to cry for hope's far shore.

He had believed one day in his sweet chimeras' grace,

painting his dreams, drowning the nightmares' deep fears,

but his jealous shadow eclipsed their luminous face,

abandoning him to sad memory's bitter tears.

The regrets whose tears have dried up the rivers' streams

now flow down his bruised cheeks in the dark of night.

He has renounced love and all its fleeting gleams,

to lose his dying heart in the evening's flight.