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
