| Les Ruches Malades (original) | Les Ruches Malades (translation) |
|---|---|
| Flnant au pied des ruches grises, | Lounging at the foot of the gray beehives, |
| Je lve les yeux | I look up |
| Vers un ciel qui de son bleu | Towards a sky that of its blue |
| Inhabit me cloue terre; | Inhabit nails me to the ground; |
| Plus absent que moi encore… | Even more absent than me... |
| Dans la vie que je mne | In the life I lead |
| Chaque jour se ressemble | Every day is the same |
| Et gupe parmi gupes, | And wasp among wasps, |
| J’ai offert mes ailes | I offered my wings |
| Aux bons plaisirs des reines imbciles. | To the good pleasures of foolish queens. |
| La nuit et ses lueurs glaciales | The night and its icy glows |
| Ont transform la ruche malade | Have transformed the sick hive |
| En un beau palais de cristal; | In a beautiful palace of crystal; |
| Puis au petit matin, | Then in the early morning, |
| Le soleil dvoile les plaies obscnes | The sun unveils the obscene wounds |
| De ces mgapoles tentaculaires | Of these sprawling cities |
| Don’t le venin et les puanteurs | Don't the venom and the stinks |
| Ettouffent et violent les mes | Smother and violate my souls |
| Qu’elles gardent en leur sein. | That they keep within. |
