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Je ne veux pas m'éloigner (Je ne veux pas quitter II)

Je ne veux pas quitter
tout ce que j'ai perdu
ce que je n'ai pas eu
que je sentais venir
que je sentais finir
sans que rien ne soit vécu
je ne peux pas m'éloigner
des choses que j'ai perdues
des lieux
des étés bousculés
des noms qui remontent en
surface
 
Je plonge mes bras pour les tirer
vers moi, aussitôt ils se cabrent
me voient déjà les avaler
 
et j'aime sentirqu'ils
m'échappent
les choses avalées
ne sont même plus bonnes à
perdre
elles vident le passé
 
je ne veux pas quitter
tout ce que j'ai perdu
que j'ai cru posséder
que je n'ai jamais eu
de ces verres refusés
à ces mains non tenues
je ne veux pas me couper
de ces choses là non plus
 
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I don't want to get away (I don't want to leave, part II)

I don't want to leave
all that I lost,
that I never had
that I felt coming
that I felt ending
while nothing was lived through.
I cannot get away
from the things I've lost
from the places
from the jostled1 summers
from the names bubbling up to the
surface
 
I dip my arms to pull them
to me, but they rear back
thinking I could swallow them.
 
And I like to feel them
escaping me.
Swallowed things
are not even worth losing
anymore.
They empty the past.
 
I don't want to leave
all that I lost,
that I thought I owned
that I never had.
From those glasses denied
to those hands unheld,
I don't want to sever my ties
with those either.
 
  • 1. that's rather unusual and could have a few different meanings : "bustling", "crowded", "rushed"...
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GavinGavin
   Mar, 17/10/2017 - 09:55

That's pretty weird!

from the names popping through the surface - a bit unusual... It's quite typical to talk of things that "bubble up to the surface" ie "From the names that bubble up to the surface"
some of these glass denied to - Don't think you really need the "some" here. Just "Those glasses denied to"

The sentence structure is a bit debatable but in that last verse I read the first four lines as one phrase and then the last 4 together as the next one.

GavinGavin
   Mer, 18/10/2017 - 09:47

I'll have a go :)

Are these hands "raised" - is it not "all the things from those glasses to those unheld hands"

From those glasses denied to
those hands unheld. (or unraised if you're sure about that)
I don't want to sever my ties
with those either.

GavinGavin
   Mer, 18/10/2017 - 10:01

Yes - that's how I was reading it for a while until I thought "hold up..." ;-)

You could switch the adjective position for both the glasses and the hands but it actually sounds quite good this way round for a poetic structure. Those words unsaid etc.

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