AEGRI SOMNIA

Don't dive!

Slide into the water!

Swim calmly!

Listen, your head in the water or out of the water!

No matter what happens, drift along with it ...

I

Curses

There shall be no more. 

Above all, 

Tied up to life, 

Your cheek laying on your belly, 

You shall be rested. 

There, 

Welcome the caress of blows. 

Welcome it. 

Let this mushroom

Encroach your skin. 

Its perfume is

What engulfed you. 

There, 

There where you stand, 

Your limbs shall  be stitched. 

Your rage shackled. 

Your screams

Shall be the buried vaults

Of a tidy house. 

And now, 

Strain your ears. 

Strain them. 

This world is waging its ruins. 

It dances

But believes in dance no more. 

Around itself, 

It spins without rest. 

Ready to pay for the unpayable

To adorn its boredom. 

Here is

Its very victory. 

Here is

The encampment of its grief. 

II

But

We had to walk

And we were moving forwards

While

Squads of physalia

Letting

Their navy blue tentacles

 Float abaft, 

Jellyfishes

Whose opaline 

Or blush pink

Azure strake bedecked umbrellas

Sheltered us from sunrays, 

And pelagia panopyra

Which

In darkness

Would have sprinkled our path

With phosphorescent glimmers, 

Were sailing above our heads. 

III

Aren't you mistaken ? 

Didn't your muscles betray you ? 

What are you doing ? 

In the midst of this

Inwards congealed crowd ? 

You, 

Whose sun stung

Eyes

Questionned the horizon. 

You

Whose weeds scratched

Ankles

Steered your steps towards the heights. 

I recognise you no more. 

I recognise you no more. 

Your whiff is unknown to me. 

you smell of the

Eager-to-dig pick. 

You smell of the

Worried-to-open door. 

You stink. 

Trough-and-through

You stink.

You

Whose sun stung

Eyes

Questioned the horizon. 

You

Whose weeds scratched

Ankles

Steered your steps towards the heights. 

Resume walking. 

Roam the city. 

Let her hear your scream. 

Leave the crowd, 

Happy with yourself, 

Leave it !

Rouse yourself from it and fall. 

There lies your force. 

There lies you motion.