Comme Une Maladie

Like a disease
An unknown fever
One day it struck
Upon my life
To trouble my mind
To break my heart
With a deaf pain
Infinite
Incurable
Incurable
That scares me

Like a disease
Like an ignored illness
A languor tinged
With madness
Slipped under my skin
Took away, despite me
The use of my joys
And the words
That I had used,
Without touching
My thoughts

I lost my strength and my laughter
Saw the sparkle in my eyes fade
Eaten away by this mystery
A pain that tears me apart
Like a disease
That would undermine my body
That no science yet
Can cure
It agitates and invades me
Fevering me day and night
Leaves me hopeless, helpless
Because I am
Incurable
Incurable
Of your love