jeudi 12 février 2009

THE WORLD IS MINE



I look at my fragments around me.
They are all my children, my stars,
Floating in the wind of my singular madness.
Banner of my eternal freedom,
I held up the army of my differences
At the face of a world wanting me
Crawling on the floor of unimportance,
Extinct lights, sad reality.
But I never will surrender,
Never I would give up
To my luminescent battle,
This conquest of me, of my folly.
So I learned to hide,
burry myself under false appearances,
False identities, false faces.
You want me meek,
I was an idiot.
You wanted me slave
I perspired condescension.
You wanted me transparent
I became invisible.
But in the courtyard of my secrecies,
I built tirelessly
The walls of my territory,
With the strength of my sorrow,
My doubts, my bleeding.
"Maybe lonely! But cushy! "
Silence spouts out the sweet liquor
Of a million scarlet shimmering dreams.
One for each fragment,
Each fragment for a wound,
Each injury for a few immensity.
And my sky covered with eternity.
Of my hands, my eyes,
From my tortured mind came thousand feasts,
Notes and colors,
Forms and verses,
I embraced art, as one embraces
The infinite love of flesh and smile.
This other one who is also me,
But who is him, who is her.
And when that my empire
Its advent had completed,
My madness turned into wisdom,
My fury became tenderness,
I opened my arms in cross
To wed the horizon.

And the world was mine.

Je regarde mes fragments autour de moi.

Ils sont tous mes enfants, mes étoiles,

Flottant au vent de ma folie singulière.

Bannière de ma liberté éternelle,

Je brandis l’armée de mes différences

A la face d’un monde qui me voudrait

Rampant sur le sol des banalités,

Des lumières éteintes, des tristes réalités.

Mais jamais je ne me rendrais,

Jamais je ne renoncerais

A ce combat luminescent,

Cette conquête de moi, de ma folie.

Alors j’ai appris à me cacher,

A m’enfouir sous de fausses apparences,

De fausses identités, de faux visages.

Vous me vouliez docile,

Je fus un idiot.

Vous me vouliez esclave,

Je transpirais la condescendance.

Vous me vouliez transparent,

Je devins invisible.

Mais dans la cour de mes secrets,

Je bâtissais sans relâche

Les murs de mon territoire,

A la force de mes chagrins,

De mes doutes, de mes saignements.

« Seul peut-être ! Mais peinard ! »

Du silence jaillit la liqueur suave

De million de rêves écarlates et miroitants,

Chacun pour un fragment,

Chaque fragment pour une blessure,

Chaque blessure pour un peu d’immensité.

Et mon ciel se couvrit d’éternité,

De mes mains, de mes yeux,

De mon esprit torturé sortirent mille festins

De notes et de couleurs,

De formes et de versets,

J’embrassais l’art, comme on embrasse

Cet amour infini de chair et de sourire.

Cet autre qui est aussi moi,

Mais qui est lui, qui est elle.

Et lorsque que mon empire

Eut achevé son avènement,

Ma folie se changea en sagesse,

Ma fureur devint tendresse,

J’ouvris mes bras en croix

Pour épouser l’horizon.

Et le monde fut mien.






To my wife Tiezy, soon...


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mardi 10 février 2009

THE PHOENIX IN ME.

THE PHOENIX IN ME.


I am me.
I am immortal.
I am the fire
I am the ice.
I am so mortal
A breath of wind
Can disintegrate me.
I am a spitfire
Of an uncommon keenness.
I am the storm
Over my own passion
I am the fading wind
I am the evening dawn
I am the night that fills mysteries.
I am the star that glitters
And the galaxies already dead as
their lights touch your retina.
I am the sleep that finally quietens.
And at last
In the morning waking
I am born again
As a human being.
The phoenix in me
Is my measure.




LE PHŒNIX EN MOI.


Je suis moi.
Je suis immortel.
Je suis le feu
Je suis la glace.
Je suis tellement mortel...
Un souffle de vent
Puis me désintégrer.
Je suis un volcan
D'une rare acuité.
Je suis la tempête
Au dessus de ma propre passion
Je suis du vent faiblissant.
Je suis l'aube, le soir
Je suis la nuit qui emplit de mystères.
Je suis l'étoile qui brille
Et les galaxies déjà mortes
lorsque leurs lumières touche votre rétine.
Je suis le sommeil qui finalement calme .
Et enfin,
Au réveil le matin
Je suis né de nouveau
Comme un être humain.
Le phœnix en moi
Est ma mesure.

lundi 9 février 2009

THE SAMURAI'S WAY




It was late when I entered the cold water.
Some yellow glows attracted me there.
It was full night over my insomnia
When silently, I got frozen by the bit of the liquid.
Few days ago, my Zen master asked me this test.

“The world you prepare yourself to enter
is burning, burning of an iced fire.
If you want to go there,
you must bear the ultimate cold,
You must overcome the flame,
And resist to all bitterness…
Coz you gonna suffer there.
More than thousand hells,
More than thousand deaths,
More than to be neglected.
Son, you will die there.
And you must be ready for that.”

So spoke to me my master.
And I trembled for that.
My sleep fled me as if there was no more days,
But only one endless night.
Was I going to bleed deadly
From the bit of the ice crystal dragon?

“Yes, son. You gonna bleed.
All your oceans, all your rivers.
You gonna pour out from life to chasm.
Yes, son, You gonna cry all joy
By each pore of your soul.
Son, this is only the samurai’s way.
A samurai already knows he is going to die
When he leaves home’s warmth.”




And so I went.



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ENDLESS NIGHT




Why this night so long ? Seems endless… I wish I could sleep. My eyes don’t see anymore, but my brain refuse me to be quiet… why this night so dark when the full moon turns it into a strange day light. I guess I will fall at dawn. Why this endless night so heavy ? I know, I can’t say… why my mind so endless …