FEAR OF FLYING

It’s been a few years since I wrote this… I wanted to change something… but I’ll just leave it as it is.

FEAR OF FLYING

Paris-Montreuil 2022

Grey house at the end of the strange street —

For those who are not so nice and sweet.

Tall smoke from the chimney

Rises toward the red sky.

I wish I could fly... tonight.

The taxi is late again.

The night is long.

Someone is weak,

Someone is strong.

Trains pass above the shiny

Restaurants.

Infants bawl loudly again

Behind the orange window.

I wish I could cry.

I wish I could cry.

Maybe...

I don’t want to fly tonight.

Glassy-eyed people gather

Around the grey building.

Someone threw himself under the train.

I see in the sky a burning plane

Above a yellow crane.

I wish I could cry.

I wish I could cry.

I don’t want to fly —

Tonight.

The taxi did not come.

Something strange is happening.

Umbrellas start falling

From the sky.

I’m going home soon,

Alone with the moon.

I wish I could cry.

I wish I could cry.

I don’t want to fly —

Tonight.