Your body, mainland that swells and roars over there, <br />And sends out its doubts, its dreads and its wrinkles, <br />Filling its mazes of barren chinks and crackles <br />With tribes whose rumours cause your pallet to shiver. <br />Your bottomless grave leaks the night that's your sire <br />Feeding with its velvet your greed for void and gold, <br />Harnessing and driving your beasts into the fold, <br />Spreading soothing slumber over the songs of war. <br />Look at the flaring flame that lights up your visage, <br />Highlighting the salients and unveiling the sage, <br />Thundering to heavens from its rocky passage! <br />Flame! Fire! A chord alike that strikes many others, <br />Enlighten the temple obstructed with litters <br />And your body, the god who in this shrine slumbers! <br /> <br /> <br />Tout ton corps continent houle et gronde là-bas, <br />Déléguant ses stupeurs, ses effrois et ses rides, <br />Habillant ses chaos de crevasses arides, <br />De peuples dont les cris ébranlent ton grabas. <br />De ton abîme sort la nuit dont tu tombas <br />Qui comble de velours ta faim d'ordre et de vide, <br />Impose le harnais à tes fauves, les bride, <br />Etale le sommeil sur le chant des combats. <br />Voici monter le feu d'où surgit ton visage: <br />Il éclaire les pics, il éveille le sage, <br />Il tonne au coeur du roc qui du ciel est passage. <br />Flamme! Feu! Tel l'accord éveille les accords, <br />Illumine le temple obstrué de décors <br />Et le dieu qui veillait dans son temple - ton corps.<br /><br />Michel Galiana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ageing-body/
