do you follow rainbows to the end of the road
and pretend they end with a screech of the breaks
or perhaps you miss the train and convince yourself that
you were on the wrong platform or you were there just
waving someone goodbye
do you receive flowers from people you never loved
and your ‘thank you’ is the discorded key of a piano
in the middle of a concert
do you make someone cry and comforting them is a trembling hand
a surgeon never shows the world
do you etcetera your list of to do’s into a painted oblivion
C’ est l’un de ces moments cosmiques
Quand je m’arrête dans mon chemin
Avec ma conscience en garde :
A l’angle de la rue Linne,
Face au Jardin des Plantes.
Oui, c’est le matin,
Un matin de lumière liquide !
Mes épaules rompent la toile phréatique
Avec puissance comme la déesse Diana.
Devant moi, la fontaine Cuvier :
Au moment où j’avais surgi
Sur la voie absolue, par le temps tracée
Je croyais marcher à l'infini
Sur la redoute révolue de l’empyrée
Vers la route de l’échelle je m’élevais
Pour agrandir l’énigme du monde clair
Et je m’émerveillais de vivre les degrés
De l’aventure sacrée de la lumière
Mes feux brillaient dans le ciel sans tarir
Et je me voyais un roi de la jeunesse
Mais j’ai compris que l’on naît pour mourir
Que vers la mort on s’achemine sans cesse
dine with me tonight said the dark angel
fear not for yours is the wisdom
let me taste sadness from this plate in front of you
and drink from thy glass of sorrow
(have you seen the mortals laughing
so grotesque in their so called happiness?)
sadness only brings beauty
yes we are bound for eternity
me as a guardian of your soul
you as keeper of my visions
fair enough dare i say
Romeo is dead
Juliet gets over it
escapes Paris
goes to Switzerland
opens a bank account
gets a sex change
her name is now Clive
he lives in Brighton
cuts hair and rides his bike on the pier
on Sundays
while stroking his Burmese cat, Mr Kipling,
Clive reads Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - his favourite
the final scene in the Capulets’ chapel - so real and tragic and…
Wait!
Comentarii aleatorii