Sunday, October 09, 2011

Le Moribond



Jacques Brel (April 8th, 1929 – October 9th, 1978)

3 comments:

Claude said...

SILENCE IN THE WORLD

Let me just die unknown
No parade on the road
No flowers on my grave
She was here...she is gone...

Let me just die simply
Breathing in...breathing not...
Shed a tear if you must
And remember a smile
A word or a gesture

I lay no claim to fame
For I'll die as I lived
Poems in a drawer
Music in my fingers
And silence in the world.

CPG - 1993

Claude said...

Un mot pour mes enfants.

C'EST LE TEMPS DE PARTIR

Pas trop de fleurs
Pas trop de pleurs
Quelques photos
Et quelques mots
Un peu de vin
Bach et Chopin
Réunion d'amis
Adieu la vie

Il faut vieillir
Il faut mourir
Bonjour repos
Pour mes vieux os.

CPG -1993

Sean Jeating said...

Merci de tout coeur, Claude, for not leaving these two poems in the drawer.

Do I, after all, detect a certain affinity with Brel's thinking? :)