Messenger flower

Jules Bouval

I planted a drunken kiss on this flower for you,

who stole my heart away in a single day.

May you guess the discrete caress

of this ardent love kiss!

I whispered to the palpitating flower

all the joy and pain you give me.

May you will find in its disturbing scent

these sincere, crazy confessions!

Finally, I put my whole soul into this flower,

as if I believed in the language of the flowers,

and I dropped all my tears, burning like flames,

into its calyx!