This night, life is hanging heavily in me,

as an oppressing burden,

Repugnant by her irony of intoxicating happiness,

Irritating by her provoking cynicism,

As she attempts to atone

for the little strength that remains to me,

The last hopes, the last ethereal visions,

The past times and those to come,

Those who have never been and shall not be,

Those who haunt me night and day,

Those who try to reach but always elude

in a blurred vanescence,

As the water we would like to seize, he glides,

Vanishes in a sheaf of a harassing ridicule.

The dread is his most favourite mean,

The anguish a terrible use,

The despair his most devoted companion

In the darkness where he likes to initiate me painfully,

Where the dreams vanish slowly,

And where the infinity of the naught comes to me,

I feel it so close to me,

It kisses me like a loving curse mistress

And its breath of chrysanthemums exhales me

The sweet fragrance of a unique j ourney...

Without retum.