l'homme et l'oiseau [English translation]

I watch them flap their wings

These swallows that turn around you

As they search for themselves in your eyes, they

Who won't have your love

They draw them like light

These hearts like you half closed

But my love, go ahead and tell them

That we don't lock up birds

I admire you from the ground

Flying on the sides of the cliffs

The more I look for you, the more I lose you

In this sky of ice and embers

You who know things we don't know

Like the madmen, like the children

Tell me about the world you see up there

Tell me about the inside

Oh, keep it, your freedom

It's your long winter coat

It is your grace and your burden

Between man and bird

I like to imagine you dancing

Far away in this limitless sky

To dream that one day you'll let me marry

Your runaways and your escape

I'll make a hostage of your being

Your body, your lips and on your back

My fingers will draw rivers

Traces of my claws on your skin

I'll kiss you (We'll kiss)

With so much rage (Oh, so much rage)

So that your body (So that your hours)

Remember (Remember)

Of my madness, of my face

Let my abandonment reach you

You can drink from my lips the desire to hold back the night

Never again will the day rise so as not to disturb our shouts

I'll invent islands between my curves where you can take refuge

When you're too caged you'll have to regain your freedom

Oh my love, my love, I know

That you will soon leave

We can't lock up birds

I opened my eyes this morning

And you were already gone

The curtains fly in a pattern

On my white walls a little yellowing

Like a sigh, you've gone

In the middle of our night

To which arms did you fly?

To what new daydream?

• Artist:Barbara Pravi