mardi 28 juillet 2020

Good bye Queen of the skies. She still calls Australia home

Even though I have not returned to Australia after my two trips in 2008, I keep abreast of what is happening in Australia. I am grateful for the enormous influence Australia had in my formation and thinking.

QF Qantas airways, I always feel an excitement when I see a QF plane in London or Los Angeles. I have taken many flights between Melbourne and USA (Miami, via Los Angeles) and enjoyed the brief stop overs in Honolulu before the nonstop flights arrived. My last flight into and out of Australia were non stop flights from LAX to MEL.

 Recently QF retired their 747 fleet. In Australia, wherever you fly to, it is a long haul flight and over the years I had taken multiple flights between UK and Australia and USA and Australia on QF.
 These photographs are from Sam Chui's website about the last flight of QF 747 to their resting place in Mojave desert.

5 QF 747s are mothballed there. This pandemic has dealt a blow to the International Aviation unimaginable and we have to wait for its recovery and recuperation.

My normal travelling pattern was.  cuba-usa-europe-asia
Until the vaccine is here I dont think it is safe to undertake long haul travel ...

At that time, I hope to enter QR Qatar Airways flight from Miami to Doha on my way over to Asia and be greeted with a smile an a glass of champagne...

It is worth the wait..

lundi 27 juillet 2020

THE BIG TECH BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU ....

We are living through a strange ? period of time, a difficult ? period of time, or profitable?  period of time?  I suppose it depends who do you ask .
For a poor black person in the USA, this is a strange time, when overt racism of USA and their leaders have come to fore and they do not hide the feeling. A senator writes: Slavery was a necessary evil for founding of the the States. This is a historic moment for the black people in USA and if they come together and demand their rightful place in society, USA would climb back some steps in the Respect Ladder among civilized nations. In Miami, 40 per cent of the immigrants or their children support far right-wing policies of the government at local, state and federal levels we are told. They, especially the Cubans or the Chileans or the Venezuelans had come here to escape “oppression” in their countries, but why are they part of the oppression in their new home? This has been shown to be true of immigrants from subcontinental India too.
Miami
Miami's  black-white dissimilarity score is 73.0, according to a study of 2010 Census data by professors John Logan and Brian Stults of Brown and Florida State University. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered very high segregation.  Blue colour denotes Black populated areas.

I am currently reading an excellent book by the Israeli Historian, Noah Yuval Harari

It is an excellent read, those who have read his first two enormously erudite and popular books would realize the scholarship that went into it. He begins with the advances in BioTech and InfoTech and AI (Artificial Intelligence) is advancing and how Human Stupidity would garner its power and make a swathe of human being irrelevant. He talks about Brexit and how that was influenced by FEELING rather than LOGIC and also how the right-wing totalitarian leaders, exemplified by Trump and Brasil’s Bolsanaro have come to fore. He also questions the legitimacy of Silicon Valley giants as in  FaceBook and Google and Twitter in the biased dissemination of information targeted at the feeling and weakness of the readers.

My friend from Phnom Penh, Cambodia sent me this video clip from a TED talk by Carole Cadwalla , a very courageous British journalist. It is worth listening to her .

Her Wikipedia entry is quite impressive 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cadwalladr?wprov=sfla1

She is the award winning journalist who laid bare Russian involvement in Britain and its politics as well as the social platforms and their role in undermining our liberal democracies. After listening to her, you will have less respect for Zuckerberg (FACEBOOK) and Sunder Pichai (GOOGLE).

I am taking the liberty of reproducing a few lines fro the book by Noah Yuval Harari (Jerusalem)

The danger is that if we invest too muvh in developing AI and too little in developing
are far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, 



 



 

 

vendredi 24 juillet 2020

IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING HIDDEN INSIDE THEM

I have a friend in Dali City, Yunnan.

The scenery is nothing like what we associate with China with its industries, crowded cities and glittering lights.
Tranquil mountains, streams and villages reminiscent of another century. This calmness has attracted groups of people, from many walks of life, of an intellectual bent.
My friend, from the east of China, had moved to Dali City and occasionally she sends me pictures of the scenery and also of daily life and the narrow streets of ancient villages.
It was JK who brought us together. At the lobby of a hotel near Zocalo in Mexico City, one year ago in April 2019. We had a lovely visit to Teotihuacan.

I had noticed a certain depth in her thought and speech and was to make her acquaintance. We kept in touch through the Pandemic when China had very strict lockdown policies.
My Meskwakia teacher, Pat Brown, had told me many years ago: Do not search for people, those who you need to meet will come your way, be open to receive them.
My friendship with JH from Dali City, Yunnan existed at a level mutually satisfactory of exchanging information of comfort and tranquility. We write whenever we feel like writing but not on any schedule.
Yesterday I was privileged to read some of her thoughts and I was astounded by the clarity of them, as I had foreseen in that morning in Mexico City.

10 am. Miami, 24.07.2020
It was close to midnight when our conversation began and here are some excerpts of her thoughts.

 This kind of dialogue has greatly shortened a certain psychological distance. In my opinion, it is a serious communication on a completely exploratory level, so it does not feel strange to the other party at all.  I cherish such people very much, those who come to me to take a serious look at their lives themselves. Their struggle for a certain period of time actually contains the life potential of an inflection point.  We are not to choose a life attitude, but to live out different possibilities, but in reality, not everyone has such a hope. Some people have some light in at first, but the flames of karma will make light.  Gradually extinguished.  I hope that this kind of power will be cherished, cared for, and strengthened by people. I have walked through it earnestly and more and more firmly. They all felt my uncompromising on this point.  However, I cannot say the same thing to everyone. He is one of them, still carrying light and hope.


There is no easy way for everyone to pursue self-liberation.  It depends on whether you can stand up to great karma. If you really pursue freedom, these are not problems at all.  It's whether you will be forced to compromise.  Don't list your logic, it makes you trapped in your brain.  You have to let your heart tell you.  "In society, the individual is insignificant and there is no freedom." It's just because you have delusions but no power. Most people end up like you, but they struggle with different degrees. Don't blame the outside.
the moment.  She wants to make the rules of the game, no matter how you break or jump.

The freedom I'm talking about may not be the kind of freedom you think.  The freedom I am talking about is to be able to live out the will and potential of one's life without being limited to those gross karma, gross karma refers to being trapped by money, career, fame, marriage, parenting, health, and support.



Postscript: In the practice of life exploration and action, it seems vague and impossible to capture the reality, but it needs a solid professional spirit and tenacity. Desire and opportunity are only the first step. Courage is not to take risks or to give up without hesitation.  All, not to meet the difficulties, but all kinds of tightrope-like balance can take you forward, inner and outer balance, rational and perceptual balance, even the balance of material needs and spiritual needs, and then accompanied by  Every step is becoming clearer and more determined. This determination cannot rely on the voice of any external authority, but comes from the flow that goes deeper and deeper into your life.

 What I want to say is that many people stubbornly believe that this path of inner exploration requires abandoning something in the worldly life. This idea itself is a fallacy and it is also limited.  It is by no means a sense of renunciation, but to embrace and experience life more completely and without a sense of division.

 Finally, let’s have a homemade Matsutake beef cubed shrimp pizza!


Trajectory of Life ..
I think of JH as an idea, a process rather than a person. Thus there is no attachment and no desires except to have seen the evolution of that process. I am very much reminded of Commandatore in Killing of Commandatore by Murakami Haruki. An idea which cannot predict the future but very much in touch with a created reality within, that is my friend JH.
Thus, her words are not a guidance to how to solve/integrate the realities of life but bring the light into enlighten some darker corners of the mind of the other.
I wonder whether being fully aware of the present, one becomes cognizant of what is to come, to a great degree? JH seems to have a vision which is infinite, cutting across space and geography and thus in contrast to the modern society surrounding us with its limited vision mainly concentrated on oneself, the individual, rather than the greater existence of humanity.
Murakami HARUKI "'There's something about your paintings that strikes the viewer's heart from an unexpected angle. At first they seem like ordinary, typical portraits, but if you look carefully you see something hidden inside them.'"
(JH paints, I have seen her watercolours)

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe” — R. Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller’s own life was inspiring, an architect, a builder and a philosopher. Lived by his own convictions and lived in (experienced) reality. Dedicated to humanity rather than a small limited interest of the individual.
R Buckminister Fuller 1895 -1983, although expelled from Harvard University, was the second world president of MENSA.

Another great American of that era was James Michener. I had the great fortune to meet with him while he was visiting a sugar plantation (researching for one of his books), just a few years before his death.
I remember him talking about the trajectory of life, that unfortunate barrier that modern person puts in their path , in competition to complete certain landmarks by particular age, thus getting old chronologically and intellectually and emotionally, becoming unnecessarily obsessed with age.  He had not published anything until he was 40 years of age and spent his formative years wandering around the world. I am 85 years old now, he said,  no one calls me a failure but they did when I was wandering around the world, living experiences.
What I consider to be the greatest compliment to my personality, was this from my closest friend, Dr MW in Miami: You are the youngest person that I know.  Merci beaucoup, mon petit frere. My own advice to remain young is very simple, as I see it in JH also. A. Be intellectually active . Listen to other intellectuals but come to your own conclusions rather than be a parrot echoing  B. Mix with a wide variety of people, all backgrounds and all nationalities and all ages, show them all equal respects.

While I have not discussed the above giant American thinkers, JH and I were brought together by JK, the Indian philosopher whose thoughts are so contemporary.






What is age?
Is it the number of years you have lived? That is part of age;

 you were born in such and such a year, and now you are fifteen, forty or sixty years old. Your body grows old—and so does your mind when it is burdened with all the experiences, miseries and weariness of life; and such a mind can never discover what is truth.
The mind can discover only when it is young, fresh, innocent; but innocence is not a matter of age.
 It is not only the child that is innocent—he may not be— but the mind that is capable of experiencing without accumulating the residue of experience.
The mind must experience, that is inevitable. It must respond to everything—to the river, to the diseased animal, to the dead body being carried away to be burnt, to the poor villagers carrying their burdens along the road, to the tortures and miseries of life— otherwise it is already dead; but it must be capable of responding without being held by the experience.
It is tradition, the accumulation of experience, the ashes of memory, that make the mind old. The mind that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the joys and sorrows of the past—such a mind is fresh, innocent, it has no age; and without that innocence, whether you are ten or sixty, you will not find God.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Book of Life, November 10, Harper SanFrancisco, 1995

JH lives in Dali City, Yunnan.
History: As early as 4,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Bai people settled in this area. In the Second Century AD, it was brought into the territory of the central government of Han Dynasty (206 BC-220AD). Two ethnic states, the Nanzhao State (738-937) in Tang Dynasty (618-907), and the Dali State (937-1253) in Song Dynasty (960-1279), were once established here as well. Throughout ages, it remained an intermediary area linking economic and cultural communications between ancient China and other countries via India. The remains of the Tai He City and the Dali Ancient City bear witness to thousands of years of historic changes once happened here. Together with the Xizhou Town and the Zhoucheng Village, the ancient towns around show the best of historic customs of daily life within the Bai Minority.

Ethnic minorities have inhabited in this area for generations, with the Bai Minority making up the majority of its population (65%).
A small number of Bai are Muslims and are referred to as Bai Hui with Bai as their first language. Hui is the largest minority in China numbering 10 million who are predominantly Muslim. The greatest naval admiral that had ever lived, Zheng He, born Ma He in Yunnan was considered Hui. He was descended from Uzbek/Mongol invaders.
The great admiral of the Ming Fleet
Zheng He.  600 years ago he saw more of the world than most people manage to see now. Never with an intention to conquer but to offer friendship of the Chinese people. Collaboration was Zheng He's style. I have visited Semarang in Jawa, Malacca in Malaysia, Galle in Sri Lanka, Cochin in Kerala, Salalah in Oman.. all in search of Zheng He and his contribution .. 

samedi 18 juillet 2020

POLITICANS AND OPPRESSORS SHOULD NOT USE THE WORD. FREEDOM AND WE SHOULD NOT LOVE WITHOUT LOVE

I am reminded
Who taught me this poem, I cannot remember
Was the poet laureate of Baracoa, the one who walks with a grin as big as a begonia?
I had written that some time ago

Here is an excerpt from the poem by Thiago de Mello Brasil

Decree-se que nada será obrigado nem proibido
It is decreed that nothing will be obligatory or banned.
Tudo será permitido,
Everything will be permitted,
inclusive brincar com os rinocerontes
even playing with rhinoceroses 
e caminhar pelas tardes 
and walking in the afternoons
com uma imensa begônia na lapela. 
with an immense begonia in the lapel.

Parágrafo único: 
Só uma coisa fica proibida: amar sem amor. 
Only one thing is prohibited: to love without love.

Why am I saying all these?
I am constantly shifting spaces
But do not suffer from the lack of this impermanence

Feel comforted to be at this hotel so close to the zocalo
Where the ghosts of the Indians murdered bark at the tourists in their nightmares



LOS ESTATUTOS DEL HOMBRE (Thiago de Mello - Traducción de Pablo Neruda)
Artículo 1
Queda decretado que ahora vale la vida, que ahora vale la verdad, y que de manos dadas trabajaremos todos por la vida verdadera.

Artículo 2
Queda decretado que todos los días de la semana, inclusive los martes más grises, tienen derecho a convertirse en mañanas de domingo.

Artículo 3
Queda decretado que, a partir de este instante, habrá girasoles en todas las ventanas, que los girasoles tendrán derecho a abrirse dentro de la sombra; y que las ventanas deben permanecer el día entero abiertas para el verde donde crece la esperanza.

Artículo 4
Queda decretado que el hombre no precisará nunca más dudar del hombre. Que el hombre confiará en el hombre como la palmera confía en el viento, como el viento confía en el aire, como el aire confía en el campo azul del cielo.

Parágrafo:
El hombre confiará en el hombre como un niño confía en otro niño.

Artículo 5
Queda decretado que los hombres están libres del yugo de la mentira. Nunca más será preciso usar la coraza del silencio ni la armadura de las palabras. El hombre se sentará a la mesa con la mirada limpia, porque la verdad pasará a ser servida antes del postre.

Artículo 6
Queda establecido, que durante diez siglos, el lobo y el cordero pastarán juntos y la comida de ambos tendrá el mismo gusto de aurora. De acuerdo a lo soñado por el profeta Isaías.

Artículo 7
Por decreto irrevocable queda establecido el reinado permanente de la justicia y de la claridad. Y la alegría será una bandera generosa para siempre enarbolada en el alma del pueblo.

Artículo 8
Queda decretado que el mayor dolor siempre fue y será siempre no poder dar amor a quien se ama, sabiendo que es el agua quien da a la planta el milagro de la flor.

Artículo 9
Queda permitido que el pan de cada día tenga en el hombre la señal de su sudor. Pero; que sobre todo tenga siempre el caliente sabor de la ternura.

Artículo 10
Queda permitido a cualquier persona a cualquier hora de la vida el uso del traje blanco.

Artículo 11
Queda decretado, por definición, que el hombre es un animal que ama, y que por eso es bello, mucho más bello que la estrella de la mañana.

Artículo 12
Decretase que nada estará obligado ni prohibido. Todo será permitido. Inclusive jugar con los rinocerontes, y caminar por las tardes con una inmensa begonia en la solapa.

Parágrafo:
Sólo una cosa queda prohibida: amar sin amor.

Artículo 13
Queda decretado que el dinero no podrá nunca más comprar el sol de las mañanas venideras. Expulsado del gran baúl del miedo, el dinero se transformará en una espada fraternal, para defender el derecho de cantar y la fiesta del día que llegó.

Artículo Final
Queda prohibido el uso de la palabra libertad, la cual será suprimida de los diccionarios y del pantano engañoso de las bocas. A partir de este instante, la libertad será algo vivo y transparente, como un fuego o un río, o como la semilla del trigo y su morada será siempre el corazón del hombre.


LA BELLE DAME SANS REGRETS. NOTHING TO LOSE WHEN YOU CAN DANCE AND HAVE THE MUSIC TO DO SO

Tropics are like hammocks for lovers, was it Anais Nin (French-Cuban) who said that when she and Arthur Miller were lovers in Paris ?
There is a word in English that I like, that describe this feeling: languorous..
Lazy summer afternoon, chasing butterflies 
along hedges with bright red hibiscus 
in Kuala Belait in Brunei 
Languorous ..
More senses arrive 
The fragrance of Melbourne that I have still not forgotten
Islands after islands 
remote and more remote 
all drenched in torpor of  the tropics 

It is raining my friends and other lovers 
where my heart is jumping with joy 
a happy heart is flexible and open to the emotions that come in 
in distant Dali, spirit of someone is seeping into their drawings
A connection to the coast of Brasil where a Jew from Cochin had stepped ashore , 400 years before me ..

should celebrate it with a song ..
I invite you to a dance..

La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Let's dance you sayDansons tu dis
And i amEt moi je suis
My steps are leftMes pas sont gauches
My feet you mowMes pieds tu fauches
I fear foolsJe crains les sots
I search in vain for wordsJe cherche en vain les mots
To explain your life to me thenPour m'expliquer ta vie alors
You lie my sisterTu ments ma Soeur
You break my heartTu brises mon coeur
I think you knowJe pense tu sais
Mistakes neverErreurs jamais
I listen you speakJ'ecoute tu parles
I do not understand very wellJe ne comprends pas bien
The beautiful lady without regretsLa belle dame sans regrets
I cry you laughJe pleure tu ris
I sing you cryJe chante tu cries
You sow the seedsTu semes les graines
From a bad oakD'un mauvais chéne
My blew awayMon ble s'envole
You are fed upTu en a ras le bol
I'm still waitingJ'attends, toujours
My cries are deafMes cris sont sourds
You lie, my sisterTu ments, ma Soeur
You break my heartTu brises mon coeur
I think, you knowJe pense, tu sais
Mistakes, neverErreurs, jamais
I listen, you speakJ'ecoute, tu parles
I do not understand very wellJe ne comprends pas bien
The beautiful lady without regretsLa belle dame sans regrets

Songwriters: Dominic James Miller

and a nice video to go with it ..


Thanks for every one who sent nice thoughts on the wings of 

 the raindrops.

I am well, thanks to you ..

Muito Obrigado 

Merci beaucoup 

mercredi 15 juillet 2020

READING SHAMLOU IN MIAMI IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES ..


I think of Ahmad Shamlou in the same manner I think of Pablo Neruda of Chile and Pramoedya Ananta Toer of Indonesia .
All suffered for their beliefs.
But they saw only beauty in the lives around them 
Shamlou drips with metaphors 

It is morning and I am in Miami 
In these strange times when we cannot plan our days and times.

Reading Shamlou.

The sun and the fire
no longer
possess any warmth or light,
that one might excavate the ember of some dream
from within 
the cold ashes of the kindling..

from Another Season 

The ocean grows jealous over the drop 
that you sipped from the well.

from Anthem for an enlightened man who went away .
in the poem, I see the pain felt at the power of the oppression of the society.
The governing powers do not want you even to taste a little bit of freedom .
As Lady MacBeth would say: I am so deep in the ocean, that drowning is the only choice.
This morning, a new book in translation from its french original by Leila Slimani (Maroc/France), winner of Goncourt Prize
about the total hypocrisy  of the Moroccan society which has put into laws the morality forbidding pleasure for the women, by stressing those qualities that men want in them and covering up them so that they become oversex-ified objects.

Why do these men find expression of human mind so odious?
Trump in America, Bolsanaro in Brasil, Most Muslim nations of the world (even including Tunisia!), Urban in Hungary..

It would be the women who would lead this new revolution of thought 
What a progressive world it would be then ...

Thank you, Mothers, Daughters, sisters and Lovers .


No one speaks with any one 
for the silence speaks with a thousand tongues 

from Nocturnal 

I keep his poems, along with poems of Forugh Farrokhzad and the uncontestable Hafez....

just a few lines now and then ..
think of some dear person 
and randomly choose a ghazal.. 

I would do that now..
I will think of some one from the town of P.
and randomly choose a ghazal
No 114 comes up 


perfume-place falleth

Amidst the proud debris of the night, a voice emerged
that was neither bird nor ocean 
And hence I felt the full burden of my races exhaustion
upon my own sunken shoulders.

from The Anthem for one who left and the one who stayed behind.

When I am in La Habana, I pass by the Persian restaurant, possibly the only Persian restaurant in the Caribbean..
and pay homage to Ahmad Shamlou


No one told me about the Persian singer Faramaz Aslani 
but it was nice to see a video filmed in the familiar parts of La Habana 
the song is YAR 


That is all for now...

mardi 14 juillet 2020

RIGHT BEFORE THE MORNING LIGHT. CREEPS SOFT UPON THE SILL...




Sandman
Right before you close your eyes
Whispering yours prayers
When the sandman blows your eyes
I'll be there
When you wake up in the night
Sounds the second stair
That creaks under the careless foot
I'll be there
Gather roses while you may
While the bloom is full
For the blossoms soon will fade
And the bloom grow dull
Right before the morning light
Creeps soft upon the sill
When the shadows chase the night
I never will
When your voice is softly heard
Singing in the morning air
But the note does not ring true
I'll be there
Gather roses while you may
While the bloom is full
For the blossoms soon will fade
And the bloom grow dull
Right before you sleep at night
Closing up the blinds
In the windows black embrace
If you find
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lundi 13 juillet 2020

POETRY ARRIVES IN THE MORNING, ONE DOES NOT ASK FOR ITS SOURCE


In the past couple of mornings, soon after I wake up in Miami, Poetry has arrived, carried by the winds from the East.
To thank the winds, I searched out for a poem 
Forugh Farrokhzad ..( who told me about this incredible woman poet of Persia ? was that a visitor to Kuala Lumpur? or at an Indian restaurant in Reading, UK ?)



I speak out of the deep of night
out of the deep of darkness
and out of the deep of night I speak.

If you come to my house, friend
bring me a lamp and a window I can look through
at the crowd in the happy alley.

Like one sends your requests in a bank, inside a tube, and await for your money in your car, I sent this back with the wind to the source of the poetry.




While I adore my language, emotional poetry sounds better in French, Spanish or Portugese.. I was happy to read the lines in French.. 
Merci beaucoup.

I had to return the favour
Who else but our dear Pablo..

Do people near the mountains in that distant land still read Pablo? 


Those who want to know, what it is to be Passionate at the same time Innocent, read the above line by Pablo 


In those days, a young doctor walked around with a copy of The Captains Verses in his white coat, inscribed with a stanza of an english poem: 
Come, the wind may never again Blow as now it blows for us; And the stars may never again shine as now they shine; Long before October returns, Sea of blood will have parted us; And you must crush the love in your heart, and I the love in mine!






Pablo Neruda's poetry came bundled with tears. Lonely days in Thursday Island in the far north of Austrlalia, where Melbourne was just a memory.
Take those dried tears, let them fly this message of Pablo along with the wind that brought me the French translation of Forugh.     A Manha sera outra dia, as sung by  Cesaria Evora.     
Passei a noite inteira na janela
Esperando por ela
Ela chegou de madrugada
Chorando e não me disse nada

Passei a noite inteira na janela
Esperando por ela
Ela chegou de madrugada
Chorando e não me disse nada

Pedi uma explicação
Soluçando ela me dizia
Fora passar de mão em mão
Amanhã será outro dia

Pedi uma explicação
Soluçando ela me dizia
Fora passar de mão em mão
Amanhã será outro dia
A Manha sera outra dia 
Tomorrow is another day

with you and 
Forugh 
Shamlou
Neruda 

20. Je peux écrire les vers les plus tristes cette nuit...
Je peux écrire les vers les plus tristes cette nuit.

Écrire par exemple : « La nuit est étoilée,
les étoiles frissonnent, bleues, dans le lointain. »

Le vent de la nuit tourne dans le ciel et chante.

Je peux écrire les vers les plus tristes cette nuit.
Je l'ai aimée et parfois elle aussi m'a aimé.

Je l'ai tenue dans mes bras, des nuits sans pareilles,
Embrassée tant de fois sous le ciel infini.

Elle m'a aimé, et parfois je l'ai aimée aussi.
Comment n'aurais-je pas aimé ses grands yeux fixes.

Je peux écrire les vers les plus tristes cette nuit.
Penser ne l'avoir plus. Sentir l'avoir perdue.

Écouter l'immense nuit, sans elle plus immense.
À l'âme est le poème, à l'herbe est la rosée.

Si mon amour ne peut la retenir, qu'importe.
La nuit est étoilée sans qu'elle soit près de moi.

Voilà tout. Quelqu'un chante au loin, là-bas, au loin.
Mon âme, de l'avoir perdue, est mécontente.

La cherche mon regard qui veut s'approcher d'elle.
La cherche mon cœur, sans qu'elle soit près de moi.

Et la même nuit a blanchi les mêmes arbres.
Nous autres, ceux d'alors, ne sommes plus les mêmes.

Je ne l'aime plus, mais comme j'ai pu l'aimer.
Ma voix mendiait au vent d'atteindre son oreille.

À un autre, elle sera. Comme avant mes baisers.
À un autre, sa voix, clair, son corps. Ses yeux infinis.

Je ne l'aime plus, oui, mais la désire encore.
L'amour est si bref, et le temps de l'oubli, si long.

L'avoir serrée dans mes bras des nuits sans pareilles,
Mon âme, de l'avoir perdue, est mécontente.

Que soit dernière, cette douleur qu'elle me donne,
Que soient derniers, ces vers que j'ai écrit pour elle.
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