L'homme Et L'oiseau

I watch them flap their wings
These swallows circling around you
As they search in your gaze
They who will not have your love
It attracts them like light
These hearts like yours half-closed
But my love, go on, tell them
That we don't lock up birds

I admire you from the ground
Flying along the cliffs
The more I look for you, the more I lose you
In this sky of ice and fire

You who know things we don't know
Like the mad, like the children
Tell me about the world you see up there
Tell me about the inside

Oh, keep your freedom
It is your long winter coat
It is your grace and your burden
Between the man and the bird

I love to imagine you dancing
Far away in that limitless sky
Dreaming that one day, you will let me marry
Your escapades and your flight

I will make a hostage of your being
Your body, your lips, and on your back
My fingers will draw rivers
Traces of my claws on your skin

I will kiss you (we will kiss)
With so much rage (oh, so much rage)
So that your body (so that your hours)
Remembers (remembers)
My madness, my face
May my abandonment reach you

You can drink there on my lips the desire to hold back the night
Never again will the day rise to not disturb our cries
I will invent islands between my curves for you to take refuge
When too caged you will need to regain your freedom
Oh my love, my love, I know
That you will leave soon
We don't lock up birds

I opened my eyes this morning
And you were already gone
The curtains flutter in a drawing
On my walls a little yellowed
Like a sigh, you slipped away
In the middle of our night
To whose arms did you fly
To what new reverie?