Madame [English translation]

I receive the moment I come back home

Your blue missive, Madame

Twenty times I reread it, and my eyes don't believe it

Nevertheless, it's written there, Madame

And by your pain I feel penetrated

But I won't be able to do anything, Madame

You know, today, that to have lost him

It's hard to bear, Madame

You ask for forgiveness for not having understood

That it was our love, Madame

You had only this son, you feared for him

And you kept him, Madame

Don't ask me what was my life

When you took him away from me, Madame

I have always been silent, it's not today

That I'll tell you that, Madame

You would have preferred I had met you there,

That he had died a hero, Madame

Yes, that would have been more noble, I believe you

Than to die from love, Madame

But whether he died here or whether he'd died there

Would you have shed less tears?

He decided, he one had the right

You have to resign yourself, Madame

It's too late now that I come back to you

And you'll age alone, Madame

And don't want anything from me if I appear cruel

But I loved him too much, Madame

For that at the end of the day, near a chimney

We'll cite together, Madame

The one that, you and I, we have adored

And have lost altogether, Madame

But the grief strays me, you have to forgive me

I'm pained by your pain, Madame

But what to do, what to say, because he's gone?

I can do nothing for you, Madame

For a second time, he will separate us

No, I won't come, Madame

For to lose him two times, it's hard to bear

You understand me well, Madame

I receive the moment I come back home

Your blue missive, Madame

Twenty times I reread it, and my eyes don't believe it

Nevertheless, it's written there, Madame

And by your pain I feel penetrated

But I can't do anything anymore, Madame

You'll know, like me, that to have lost him

It's hard to bear, Madame

• Artist:Barbara