Sentenced to Life

Your meetings with my solitude

are exquisite.

Words that woke up too hastily

will remain unforgettable.

Please draw on the wall of my hell

the gate to paradise,

long locked with a padlock.

I swear to myself, I promise others,

that a dawn will awaken in me

that will bring tears instead of fresh light.

I don't want you to associate

my heart with an empty ballad

whose words no one here knows.

I don't want the silence to reveal itself

to our senses, that my body refuses

to obey me.

My unfeeling lips met your fear.

Is what I feel a dream come true?

Does what I see resemble the tender

beginning of this universe?

Try to wake up in my terrified dream,

put on a cloak that won't protect you

from the light of shooting stars.

Come back in my dream,

smiling and sentenced to life.