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I ask for your forgiveness for loving you suddenly
Although my love is an old song in your ears
From the hours I spent in the shadow of your gestures

Drinking in the perfume of smiles from your lips
From the nights I lived cradled
By the unspeakable grace of your steps eternally fleeing

I bring the sweetness of those who accept melancholically
And I can tell you of the great affection I leave you
It doesn't bring the exasperation of tears
Nor the fascination of promises

Nor the mysterious words of the veils of the soul
It is a calm, an anointing, an overflow of caresses
And only asks you to rest quietly, very quietly

And let the warm hands of the night
Find without fate
The ecstatic gaze of dawn