Metempsicosis

Metempsychosis

From the wide sonorous sea, I was a fish in the crystals
that had the reflections of gems and metals
that's why I love the foam, the sour cliffs
the salty breezes, the vivid corals

Then my hour turned capricious tints
magnetic pupils, venomous fangs
that's why I love the swamps, the shady places
the humid twilights, the warm forests

I then became an eagle with bold and fierce bearing
had powerful wings and claws of fine steel
that's why I love the cloud, the austere high peak
the limitless space and the chatty air

Now turned into a man by dark orders
I feel in my being the germs of future existences
Lives that will rise to greater heights
or that will become impure genesis

To which distant star will I soar
when the time comes to seek another sky
To which star of fortune or planet of mourning
will my soul alight when it leaves this ground

Or descending soon for secret reasons
from the earthly life all the steps
I will wait in limbo for long gestations
the sacred moment of new ascensions.