Sous ses cils [English translation]

I thought I’d seen everything

Of this delicate, transparent world

Brushing other’s lives along my path

Confident of where I was going

And my sleep was sound

But that’s when she came along

Brilliant treachery

Like a creature from the movies

The kind that are bad

Into our peaceful lives

Into our calm lives

Perfect rain folds itself to protect her

In the middle of her overrated sisters

Me, I fall to her feet

I bow beneath her eyelashes

She floats instead of walking

She quivers a little, I tremble

I don’t impress her, I think

She carries me along her journey

And her sleep is golden

She bites my lips, my elbow

So I fall upon my knees

She laughs at me beneath her eyelashes

Me, I’m no longer so sure

She makes, she makes light work of us

Perfect rain folds itself to protect her

In the middle of her repeating sisters

Me, I beg to be loved

I bow beneath her eyelashes

I peak beneath her eyelashes

I peak, I peak