Ton absence [English translation]

As a gust of sorrow

No more speaks your face to me

I call and you don't come

Your absence has entered my home

There is a big void deep inside me

All this happiness, that has gone

If you knew how late at night

I do miss your look at me

This is the wrong side of your love

Life is weighing somewhat heavier

Like a tide of silence

Which moves in and takes your place.

There is my hand on the telephone

Now that there is no one anymore

Your picture on the mantelpiece

Says that everything is over

You told us, that we would be great

But now I am discovering

That everyone carries on his back

His whole road like a burden

The memories of my childhood

The hardships and the expectations

And this flower that flourishes on silence...

Your absence

I sleep cuddled in your smile

Between the past, the future

And the present, that withholds me

To go back to you one fine morning

On this journey without return

I have offered you all my love

Even while loving with body and soul

One still can love much more

Of course, up there somewhere

You must be hearing me or seeing me

But talking to each other would be gentler

Then we could still understand each other

My childhood has faded, already

These are gestures from the past

On films and in photographs

You have left much too soon

I have remained on the road

With my life in my hands

Not knowing what to do

To move towards the light

Only left to me throughout the days

In memory of your love

Is this flower that flourishes on silence...

Your absence

• Artist:Yves Duteil