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La Traversée (2018)

When within my cells there rages war,

For a second breath I’d stare at the stars;

 

The old world thickened under my feet,

Yet across my sorrows the ends would meet;

 

So to renew these aspirations of ours,

Perhaps on a missile on its way to Mars.

 

  ("We are past the third wave,

   past the coastline,

   past the coral reef.")

 

No I haven’t always been there for you,

In these gardens we’ve walked around and through;

 

From green to red, vice-versa and so forth,

We’ve gone past Saturn many times before;

 

Now I’m on my way to a distant shore,

Paddling the bloodstream of my heart.

 

  ("We reach through the gate,

   the threshold of no-return,

   far beyond Saturn.")

 

Amidst curiosity and its pulsations,

Of skies infinite, a stubborn astronaut;

 

It’s time to decline and lose it all

Or time to rise up and answer the call;

 

Fractions of a split-second, a trigger;

Wings spread to the dark yonder.

 

  ("The moon now floats behind us,

   It cicatrizes our scars as we sail

   Far into the night.")

 

The journey into the unknown

Always finds a way to take you home.

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Written by
solav
35 / M / Montreal, Canada
Published
Mar 20, 2021
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Written on April 19th, 2018 - for a song that never was.

— Copyright © M. Solav —

This work may not be used in entirety or in part without the prior approval of its author. Please contact [email protected] for usage requests. Thank you.

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