Aprendre [English translation]

Learning that nothing ends

If it doesn't end before deep within me.

That the sun doesn't set without returning

If, in your heart, dawn explodes.

Learning that hope is a lie

If no one makes, every day,

An effort to build a new tomorrow.

Learning to love life

When life is painful....

Learning that, if a child kills,

My own hand isn't too strange.

How sad it is when a child kills!

Here and there, sweetness dies.

Learning that, maybe, this sadness

Is only a refuge

So one will not have to tell oneself

That things are far sadder

Because they're necessary... It's far sadder!

Learning to love life

And that nothing ends if you don't want to end.

That the sun sets always with a new return

If the dawn is in your heart.

Learning with certainty

That I have nothing if you won't give it to me

(Learning) to make our hearts always be moved

By the fragile gesture of beauty.

Learning that I only am me if you exist

And this is the measure

That I want and defines who i am.

Learning to know how to give up (material things):

Here's the ancient secret to it all!

Learning...