Noir et Blanc [English translation]

Is my vision dimmed

A trick that my brain is playing on me

Do I see it too bright or too dark

Is there too much day light, or did the night fall too early

is it because I stared at a piano's keys or a checkerboard's tiles for too long

Or I have crossed out too many words

Like in the cinemas of yesteryears

I am watching the world in black and white

Black, deals of the dream traffickers

White, the sheet we stretch on those who died of it

Black, the blood of earth

and the gold that gushes from it

White, the color money turns in paradise

Black, floods and smokes

And the wrath of heaven

White, in the veins of children

The artificial snow

Black , the assaulting gun of a ten year-old soldiers

White, the dresses of brides that are nearly as old

The world is in black and white

Has somebody turned off the light

Or something has blinded me?

Like a lightning in the sky

Which suddenly strikes through the night

Do we have become, without knowing it,

Color blind over time?

in order not to see again one day the color of blood, or is this world really as black as it is white

White , my clown mask

My forehead and

my hair

Black , the veil of women

In the shadow of their God

White, the sparkle of diamonds

And the fingers that wear them

Blacks, the hands and the blood of those who bring them back

Whites, all those blank cheques

For the fiddlers of the war

Black, the future of men

The end of the times

Whites, the extinct corals

The ivory of elephants

Black, the bed of rivers

The rain over the ocean

The world is black and white

We can pray, sing the earth

Drink, and cover ourselves with flowers

Whatever the sleeping pills

We never dream in color

Have I become a clairvoyant

Or I’ve got the eyes of fear?

Should we be seventeen years old

to see the world in color

The world in color ?