VOTRE NOM ENCLOS DANS MA VOIX (en anglais)

ENGLISH :

Your Name Within My Voice

For Alejandro Nojaev

I think of you, Alejandro,

Of your venerable causes,

Of your redemptive air

Simple, good, pure,

Serious,

Charitable,

Natural and just!

I think of this blue tit

Playing with the twilight,

Pious,

Benevolent,

Firmly singing,

Deliciously accomplishing

Its duty!

And I think of myself, immersed in the solemn fragrance

Of the years and the seasons,

Surrounded by fleeting objects,

Drowned in the river of matter,

Myself,

Small,

Unstable,

Ephemeral,

I who dare to want to love,

I who dare to desire to be immortal

And ethereal like the gods!

Ah, Alejandro,

I want as much of everything in me

As I can square with precision and intelligence,

I want my heart to relish

The inexhaustible goodness of eternal things.

Like Hipparchus,

That Greek astronomer and mathematician,

I want to taste the ecstatic limpidity of equinoxes

And, at midnight, protected by the veils of the breeze,

To compile the first catalogue of the stars.

I think of you, Alejandro, of you, of me, of us,

Of us, like streams,

Immutable,

Vibrant and

Tender tiny scraps

Of Destiny!

Translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges - 01.07.12.