Why ?

Sad November evening

The love of my young heart

Bid life a final au revoir

In grief both fond and fatal.

  Frozen tears:

  So many years have passed.

  A slender memory

  Flares in my thoughts.

We walked without fear 

In that proud August night

Beneath a rain of stars

Whose brightness split our hearts.

 Frozen tears:

  So many years have passed.

  A slender memory

  Extinguished in a kiss.

The pale angel face,

Wasted both by sorrow and by drink,

Suddenly lies blank and careless

On the cold stone floor.

  Frozen tears:

  So many years have passed.

  A slender memory

  Splinters my secret thoughts.

Jean-Claude Bourdet, 2008