2 texts : first in French, second in English
ÉLÉMENTAIRE OU PRESQUE
Si tu étais le vent ?
Je serais la Terre
Pour offrir à tes effleurements
Mon ventre prolétaire
Si tu étais l'eau ?
Je deviendrais le lit de la rivière
Te proposant tendrement le repos
Loin des spéculations boursières
Si tu étais le ciel ?
Je louerais le soleil
Émerveillée par tes arcs en ciel
A chacun de mes réveils
Si tu étais le feu ?
Je retournerais aux origines
Afin de remercier le bienheureux
A la source de ta chaleur divine
Et si tu n'étais pas ?
Je ne l'imagine même pas....
ELEMENTARY OR NEAR
If you were the wind?
I'd the Earth
To offer your light touches
My proletarian belly
If you had the water?
I become the riverbed
Proposing you tenderly rest
Far from stock market speculation
If you were the sky?
I would rent the sun
Marveled by your rainbows
On each of my waking
If you had the fire?
I would go back to the origins
To thank the blessed human
At the source of your divine warmth
And if you were not?
I don't even imagine ....
MY TRADUCTION
ELEMENTARY OR NEAR
If you were the wind?
I'd the Earth
To offer your light touches
My proletarian belly
If you had the water?
I become the riverbed
Proposing you tenderly rest
Far from stock market speculation
If you were the sky?
I would rent the sun
Marveled by your rainbows
On each of my waking
If you had the fire?
I would go back to the origins
To thank the blessed human
At the source of your divine warmth
And if you were not?
I don't even imagine ....