Original Title: "Les lilas"
Text: Louis Aragon
Year: 1970
I dream and I wake up
in a scent of lilac
On which side of sleep
Have I let you here or there
I was sleeping in your memory
And you were forgetting me in a whisper
Or it was the other way around, just because
Was I where you weren't?
I fall back asleep to reach for you
In the country you dreamt about
Nothing there does anything else but to flee and feign
You, you had left it already
In life or in dream
Everything has that peculiar sparkle
Of the perfume which persists
And of a song which flew off
Oh clear night, dark day
My absent one in between my arms
And nothing else in me last
But what you whispered
All Aragon's poems/songs
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