Set ablaze the flask with a dying thirst
(Translated from a sonnet in French available here or here)
1-2 April 2016
Do you see it sink the lake of desires
Filled with my honey coloured ambrosia?
The magic is sealed in pact of pleasures
Castle in the Sky remains fantasy (home of fantasy)
From tangled bodies a sole thread now seize
Bypassing the gall of the frenzied hordes
The heart is now cracked from sought elixirs
To greet the altar die of heresy
Tell me tales of flirts fine tips recited
I will reign silent disdaining clamours
The beads that are thrown to the pigs cited
This burdensome task weft of thousand hours
Facing scarcity silence throbbing nerves
Set ablaze the flask with a dying thirst
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