Cloud
Francis Poulenc
In a corner of my days
I saw a shining memory that was no longer mine.
Its father was time,
its mother was a guitar playing on top of wandering dreams.
Their child fell into my hands
and I placed it on an oak-tree.
A bird took care of it and now it sings.
How can we find its father veiled in wind?
How can we collect its mother's tears
so as to give it a name?
As a cloud passes
we will glimpse the arrival of eternity banishing time.
On that matter, nothing more can be written.