La plage [English translation]

When on the beach

All of the pleasures of summer

With their joys

Came to me

From all directions

Love used to offer eternity

To this image

Of the sun-lit beach.

It's a shame

But summer's loves

Too often

Feared the wind

In freedom

My heart, looking for its truth,

Shipwrecks

On a deserted beach.

The sand and the ocean

Everything is set

And yet I lose track

Of all our games

A little like time

The wave clears

The footprint of the beautiful days

Of our love

But on the beach

The sun already returns

After some time

The happy heart

Resumes its rights

On the horizon offering itself to me

Better than a mirage

A discovered beach

Better than a mirage

It's a sun-lit beach

• Artist:Marie Laforêt