Maxdesire+Loua

 A celle qui est voilée

Tu me parles du fond d'un rêve Comme une âme parle aux vivants. Comme l'écume de la grève, Ta robe flotte dans les vents. Je suis l'algue des flots sans nombre, Le captif du destin vainqueur ; Je suis celui que toute l'ombre Couvre sans éteindre son coeur. Mon esprit ressemble à cette île, Et mon sort à cet océan ; Et je suis l'habitant tranquille De la foudre et de l'ouragan. Je suis le proscrit qui se voile, Qui songe, et chante, loin du bruit, Avec la chouette et l'étoile, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">La sombre chanson de la nuit. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toi, n'es-tu pas, comme moi-même, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flambeau dans ce monde âpre et vil, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ame, c'est-à-dire problème, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et femme, c'est-à-dire exil ? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sors du nuage, ombre charmante. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">O fantôme, laisse-toi voir ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sois un phare dans ma tourmente, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sois un regard dans mon ciel noir ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cherche-moi parmi les mouettes ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dresse un rayon sur mon récif, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et, dans mes profondeurs muettes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">La blancheur de l'ange pensif ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sois l'aile qui passe et se mêle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aux grandes vagues en courroux. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh, viens ! tu dois être bien belle, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Car ton chant lointain est bien doux ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Car la nuit engendre l'aurore ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est peut-être une loi des cieux <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que mon noir destin fasse éclore <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ton sourire mystérieux ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dans ce ténébreux monde où j'erre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nous devons nous apercevoir, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toi, toute faite de lumière, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moi, tout composé de devoir ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tu me dis de loin que tu m'aimes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et que, la nuit, à l'horizon, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tu viens voir sur les grèves blêmes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Le spectre blanc de ma maison. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Là, méditant sous le grand dôme, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Près du flot sans trêve agité, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Surprise de trouver l'atome <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ressemblant à l'immensité, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tu compares, sans me connaître, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L'onde à l'homme, l'ombre au banni, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ma lampe étoilant ma fenêtre <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A l'astre étoilant l'infini ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parfois, comme au fond d'une tombe, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Je te sens sur mon front fatal, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bouche de l'Inconnu d'où tombe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Le pur baiser de l'Idéal. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A ton souffle, vers Dieu poussées, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Je sens en moi, douce frayeur, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Frissonner toutes mes pensées, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Feuilles de l'arbre intérieur. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mais tu ne veux pas qu'on te voie ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tu viens et tu fuis tour à tour ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tu ne veux pas te nommer joie, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ayant dit : Je m'appelle amour. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh ! fais un pas de plus ! Viens, entre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Si nul devoir ne le défend ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens voir mon âme dans son antre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L'esprit lion, le coeur enfant ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens voir le désert où j'habite <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Seul sous mon plafond effrayant ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sois l'ange chez le cénobite, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sois la clarté chez le voyant. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Change en perles dans mes décombres <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toutes mes gouttes de sueur ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens poser sur mes oeuvres sombres <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ton doigt d'où sort une lueur ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Du bord des sinistres ravines <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Du rêve et de la vision, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">J'entrevois les choses divines... - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complète l'apparition ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens voir le songeur qui s'enflamme <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A mesure qu'il se détruit, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et, de jour en jour, dans son âme <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A plus de mort et moins de nuit ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens ! viens dans ma brume hagarde, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Où naît la foi, d'où l'esprit sort, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Où confusément je regarde <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Les formes obscures du sort. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tout s'éclaire aux lueurs funèbres ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dieu, pour le penseur attristé, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ouvre toujours dans les ténèbres <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">De brusques gouffres de clarté. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Avant d'être sur cette terre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Je sens que jadis j'ai plané ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">J'étais l'archange solitaire, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et mon malheur, c'est d'être né. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sur mon âme, qui fut colombe, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viens, toi qui des cieux as le sceau. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quelquefois une plume tombe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sur le cadavre d'un oiseau. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oui, mon malheur irréparable, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est de pendre aux deux éléments, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est d'avoir en moi, misérable, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">De la fange et des firmaments ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hélas ! hélas ! c'est d'être un homme ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est de songer que j'étais beau, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D'ignorer comment je me nomme, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D'être un ciel et d'être un tombeau ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est d'être un forçat qui promène <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Son vil labeur sous le ciel bleu ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est de porter la hotte humaine <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Où j'avais vos ailes, mon Dieu ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est de traîner de la matière ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C'est d'être plein, moi, fils du jour, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">De la terre du cimetière, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Même quand je m'écrie : Amour !

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Petite Jeanne

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous eûtes donc hier un an, ma bien-aimée. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contente, vous jasez, comme, sous la ramée, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Au fond du nid plus tiède ouvrant de vagues yeux, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Les oiseaux nouveau-nés gazouillent, tout joyeux <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">De sentir qu'il commence à leur pousser des plumes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeanne, ta bouche est rose ; et dans les gros volumes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dont les images font ta joie, et que je dois, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pour te plaire, laisser chiffonner par tes doigts, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On trouve de beaux vers ; mais pas un qui te vaille <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quand tout ton petit corps en me voyant tressaille ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Les plus fameux auteurs n'ont rien écrit de mieux <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que la pensée éclose à demi dans tes yeux, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et que ta rêverie obscure, éparse, étrange, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regardant l'homme avec l'ignorance de l'ange. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeanne, Dieu n'est pas loin puisque vous êtes là.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah ! vous avez un an, c'est un âge cela ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous êtes par moments grave, quoique ravie ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous êtes à l'instant céleste de la vie <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Où l'homme n'a pas d'ombre, où dans ses bras ouverts, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quand il tient ses parents, l'enfant tient l'univers ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Votre jeune âme vit, songe, rit, pleure, espère <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D'Alice votre mère à Charles votre père ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tout l'horizon que peut contenir votre esprit <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Va d'elle qui vous berce à lui qui vous sourit ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ces deux êtres pour vous à cette heure première <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sont toute la caresse et toute la lumière ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eux deux, eux seuls, ô Jeanne ; et c'est juste ; et je suis, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et j'existe, humble aïeul, parce que je vous suis ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et vous venez, et moi je m'en vais ; et j'adore, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">N'ayant droit qu'à la nuit, votre droit à l'aurore. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Votre blond frère George et vous, vous suffisez <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A mon âme, et je vois vos jeux, et c'est assez ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et je ne veux, après mes épreuves sans nombre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qu'un tombeau sur lequel se découpera l'ombre <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">De vos berceaux dorés par le soleil levant.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah ! nouvelle venue innocente, et rêvant, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous avez pris pour naître une heure singulière ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous êtes, Jeanne, avec les terreurs familière ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous souriez devant tout un monde aux abois ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous faites votre bruit d'abeille dans les bois, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ô Jeanne, et vous mêlez votre charmant murmure <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Au grand Paris faisant sonner sa grande armure. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ah ! quand je vous entends, Jeanne, et quand je vous vois <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chanter, et, me parlant avec votre humble voix, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tendre vos douces mains au-dessus de nos têtes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Il me semble que l'ombre où grondent les tempêtes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tremble et s'éloigne avec des rugissements sourds, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et que Dieu fait donner à la ville aux cent tours <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Désemparée ainsi qu'un navire qui sombre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aux énormes canons gardant le rempart sombre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A l'univers qui penche et que Paris défend, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa bénédiction par un petit enfant.

A la mere de l'enfant

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh! vous aurez trop dit au pauvre petit ange <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qu'il est d'autres anges là-haut, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que rien ne souffre au ciel, que jamais rien n'y change, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qu'il est doux d'y rentrer bientôt; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que le ciel est un dôme aux merveilleux pilastres, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Une tente aux riches couleurs, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Un jardin bleu rempli de lis qui sont des astres, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et d'étoiles qui sont des fleurs; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que c'est un lieu joyeux plus qu'on ne saurait dire, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Où toujours, se laissant charmer, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On a les chérubins pour jouer et pour rire, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et le bon Dieu pour nous aimer; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qu'il est doux d'être un coeur qui brûle comme un cierge, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et de vivre, en toute saison, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Près de l'enfant Jésus et de la sainte Vierge <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dans une si belle maison! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et puis vous n'aurez pas assez dit, pauvre mère, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A ce fils si frêle et si doux, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que vous étiez à lui dans cette vie amère, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mais aussi qu'il était à vous; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que, tant qu'on est petit, la mère sur nous veille, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mais que plus tard on la défend; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et qu'elle aura besoin, quand elle sera vieille, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D'un homme qui soit son enfant; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vous n'aurez point assez dit à cette jeune âme <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que Dieu veut qu'on reste ici-bas, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">La femme guidant l'homme et l'homme aidant la femme, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pour les douleurs et les combats ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Si bien qu'un jour, ô deuil ! irréparable perte ! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Le doux être s'en est allé !... - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hélas ! vous avez donc laissé la cage ouverte, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Que votre oiseau s'est envolé !

= = A un poete Aveugle

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Merci, poète! -- au seuil de mes lares pieux, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comme un hôte divin, tu viens et te dévoiles ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et l'auréole d'or de tes vers radieux <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brille autour de mon nom comme un cercle d'étoiles. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chante ! Milton chantait ; chante ! Homère a chanté. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Le poète des sens perce la triste brume ; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L'aveugle voit dans l'ombre un monde de clarté. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quand l'oeil du corps s'éteint,l'oeil de l'esprit s'allume.

A une femme

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Enfant ! si j'étais roi, je donnerais l'empire, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et mon char, et mon sceptre, et mon peuple à genoux <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et ma couronne d'or, et mes bains de porphyre, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et mes flottes, à qui la mer ne peut suffire, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pour un regard de vous !

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Si j'étais Dieu, la terre et l'air avec les ondes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Les anges, les démons courbés devant ma loi, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Et le profond chaos aux entrailles fécondes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L'éternité, l'espace, et les cieux, et les mondes, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pour un baiser de toi !

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The young man was sitting there contemplating the sunrise, like every morning since he was

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">born. Heaven became the first orange-pink hue, before becoming redder, and then there

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">appeared the first sunlight behind the barren hills of his country home: Afghanistan. The sun then

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">came in all its splendor, it was gradually above the hills until Ali could distinguish completely, a

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fire ball that was reddish soon warm the entire camp where he was.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This camp was the place where his mother gave birth to him, the place where he made his first <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">steps with his father, and it would also be where his death would be when that time arrived.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali was a mujahid like his father before him, he never had the choice, it was a order. He had to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fight for the cause like his father and the others.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali was fired from his thoughts by the bell of the morning announcing the start of the training. He

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">got up and went back inside the small cabin he lived in, with his parents, three sisters and two

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">brothers. Found his father moving the small table he had the muses. He did not even deign to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">look up, his son still on the threshold of the door. Only when Ali asked him if he was fine, he <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">finally looked up.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ Yes I’m fine” he replied. The discussion ended there, with his two brothers out of the one room

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that served as their bedroom, Ali was already to start training, he followed them like every

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">morning since he was old enough to fight with the others.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They left outside in the sun that seemed to not pay attention to all those men already standing to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">begin training that would end at night. Ali and his brothers went towards the other fighters and

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lined up with them. And as every morning, they began by stretching before embarking on a run of ten kilometers around the camp.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They had all risen at dawn for the morning prayers before leaving for their respective huts to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dress for battle: namely pants Khaki green canvas that had been stolen from the soviets during

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">their withdrawal from Afghanistan, with t-shirts assorted delivered by the Americans when they

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sold them weapons.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The men were running at constant speed without speaking to each other, they ran with strength

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and determination until the bell announces the end of the jogging. Time could could vary between

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">one and two hours, never less, never more. Ali ran with the others in the middle platoon, not

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">paying attention to his comrades, he ran well, out of habit for the past two years. He had never

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">asked questions, he should not worry to ask.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His father became a warrior for the cause during the war between his country to the Soviet

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Union, he fought bravely and came back healthy, on top of that he was recognized by all as a

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">great hero. Ali had to do the same, that’s just the way it is, he never occurred to him to do

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">otherwise. He trained with strength and courage, he hoped to show one day his devotion to the cause, as his father did. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The race continued for then minutes, then the bell rang again announcing the breakfast the men have waited impatiently.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rest of the day went as usually: Weapons training and close combat, prayers, meals and the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">long waited sleep. Ali was lying on his bed, his brothers were already asleep in the other bed

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">next to him, but Ali could not sleep. Today his father had a long discussion with the camp

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">leaders. There were no dispute but Ali had seen his father did not agree with the decision that

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was taken. Ali foresaw a danger, he did not know why, but he felt it. Of course it was absurd,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how could he feel in danger in the training camp who had seen him grow? But that feeling did not

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">left him during the entire day and even now it was preventing him from sleeping, it had settled

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">well comfortably in him and Ali had a very clear impression that it would not go soon.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He still managed to sleep, and slept until the first bell of the morning: it was the hour of prayer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali got up and walked mechanically with the rest of his family and the other members of the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">camp, outside the great place. After the prayer, the head of the camp called his men, got up,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">took a microphone and began a speech. That was for the less unusual, there were this type of

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">talk when major operation where about to be launch. The general was in fact a simple sergeant

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who had fought the Soviets during the war, spoke of the cause, he explained that today was a

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">great day: People who were chosen would have the immense privilege of dying for the cause,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">they will be martyrs and their families would be rewarded financially. He explained that all

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">persons selected would be sent to different places to conduct strategic attacks almost

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">simultaneously. The targets would be American embassies in various countries, where the US

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">administration took the reins. Finally he added: “ Today my friends, the Great Satan US will suffer

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all the devil he has been to us and to all the faithful of Allah. Nevermore he would dare to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">underestimate us or want us to submit to their laws. Today, the Great Satan U.S will understand

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who we are, he’ll understand that we wont let anybody walk over us!”.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And he handed the microphone to his second, which should list the individuals selected for the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mission. He also added that it was a great honor for all those who had been selected, if they

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">were chosen is that they were the best and they should be extremely flattered by the opportunity

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">they had, then he enumerated the names of all those people. Ali listened carefully and when his

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">name was designated his hearth missed a beat, he thought he fainted but recovered himself, he

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">watched his father a little further ahead, he had tears in his eyes, but his eyes betrayed him as

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an immense pride of his son. The latter explained to all persons chosen, mostly young men of Ali

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">age, they had to go to the cabin of the General to receive their orders, And will be disperse

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">worldwide to prepare for the day which was just the beginning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali and every one else went to the general hut like it was requested. When his turn came, the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General showed him, the belt he would wear in cairo. He would be sent there by plane, an old

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">American C-130, he should then make a short tour of the block to recognize the area of attack,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">then should post outside of the gates of the embassy. Nobody would pay attention to a young

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">boy, then press the button that would trigger the bomb.” And it would finish the Great Satan in

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Egypt.” after the general was done with his speech, Ali left his hut and was immediately taken to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the area that they used airstrip, he barely had time to see his parents and siblings, he was

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pushed into the plane and took off moments later. Ali looked at his family through the small

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">window, he could see his mother in tears in the arms of his father, his sisters were there also,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">with tears, standing next to them, his two brothers, stoic like stones. Then the plane rose deeper

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">into the air and he saw nothing but the hills of his beautiful country, a country he would never see again.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everything happened so fast, it was like a strange fog. He no longer thought, his mind was

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literally foggy, he felt paralyzed, only his mind continued to work tirelessly. The trip seemed to be

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">interminable, it was like a dream. Finally the plane landed and Ali was down with one of general

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lieutenant, he accompanied him to a dead street, and then explained that the embassy was in

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the street parallel to it, he handed him the explosives belt and left with” May Allah be with you my friend.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali was ordered to wait until the sun begins to decline on the horizon going to the embassy.So

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">during the time he had left, he walked without any directions in the streets of Cairo, watching the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">buildings around him without paying attention to the pedestrians and merchants who sold their

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">products carefree of the event about to happen.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He walked with such ease that any passer by would have thought, he was Egyptian and he

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">knew the streets by hearth. But the truth was quite different, it was the first time he came to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cairo, and probably the last if all was going as planned.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The streets of Cairo vaguely resembled to the streets of Kabul, He had the opportunity to visit it

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">once during his childhood, he and his siblings never stopped running everywhere while their

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mother tried to call them back. Ali remembered with a strange sharpness, as if it had happened

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yesterday... maybe it was due to the approach of his death? He could not stop wondering, Why

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">him? why should he die for the cause? His father taught him all the basic of islam, he had tried to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">believe in, but Ali had never really believed, he never confess it to his father.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was still listening attentively, but could never join his father opinion, even after all this years,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yet he is now a jihad. Ali was what might be a pacifist, so why all these deaths? Why was

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">himself to kill?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He finally walked toward his final destination, the belt he was wearing was heavy and he time to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">balance it to keep it from falling. He knew well what it contained, this was his last walk before the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">decision that would end his life, But then he watched two children playing football, he began to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">doubt, he thought about running away and try to have a normal life somewhere else, Would it be

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">possible? What about his father honor?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so many unanswered questions that would remain forever.... is it not still a lot of things to discover on earth? He no longer knew where he was, but

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the time was reached, without noticing, his steps took him directly to its destination: Te US

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Embassy, It was surrounded by a strange fog, he walked toward the steps, he climbed and sat

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">on the last and then looked at his watch, two more minute left. He felt carried by a mysterious

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strength, he felt he had to. Maybe was this a sign, a sign that Allah was paying attention, he

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">would see his action and be proud of him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali rose eyes toward the sky, in front the sun was setting, its rays and the sky seemed to engulf

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the entire universe, it was an apocalyptic landscape. Ali tried his finger to the button, a little that

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">would cause a real apocalypse, The apocalypse that would weaken the Americans and end the

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suffering of his comrades and his family, they will never dare to underestimate us. And without a

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">look for pedestrians, Ali leaned on the button.