Et si tu n'existais pas

Et si tu n'existais pas
Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais
Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi
Sans espoir et sans regret

Et si tu n'existais pas
J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts
Naître les couleurs du jour
Et qui n'en revient pas

Et si tu n'existais pas
Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais
Des passantes endormies dans mes bras
Que je n'aimerais jamais

Et si tu n'existais pas
Je ne serais qu'un point de plus
Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va
Je me sentirais perdu
J'aurais besoin de toi

Et si tu n'existais pas
Dis-moi comment j'existerais
Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi
Mais je ne serais pas vrai

Et si tu n'existais pas
Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé
Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi
Simplement pour te créer
Et pour te regarder


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And if you did not exist
Tell me why would I exist
To trail in a world without you
With no hope and no regrets

And if you did not exist
I would try to invent love
Like a painter who sees under his fingers
The colors of the day being born
And never returns from there.

And if you did not exist
Tell me for whom I should exist
For those passing by, sleeping in my arms
Whom I would never love

And if you did not exist
I would be just another one
In this world which comes and goes
I would feel lost
I would need you

And if you did not exist
Tell me how I would exist
I could pretend to be myself
But I would not be real

And if you did not exist
I think I would have found it
The secret of life, the reason
Only to create you
And to look at you

prayers

O God, I ask you to take me into you care and protection along with all those who go down to the sea in ships.

Make me alert and wise in my duties. Make me faithful in the time of routine, and prompt to decide and courageous to act in my time of crisis.

Protect me in the dangers and perils of the sea, and even in the storm grant that there maybe peace and calm within my heart.

When I am far from home and far from loved ones and far from my country, help to be quite sure that, wherever I am, I can never drift beyond your love and care.

Take care, of my loved ones in the days and weeks and months when I am separated from them. Keep me true to them and keep them true to me, and everytime that we have part, bring us together in safety and loyalty again. Amen.

courtesy of AREZ

definition of a seaman

Between the innocence of infancy and
The recklessness of adultery comes that unique
Specimen of humanity known as a seaman

Seamen can be found in bars, in arguments
In bed, in debt and intoxicated.
They are tall, short, fat, thin, dark, fair but never normal.
They dislike ships food, chief engineers, writing letters
Sailing on Saturdays and dry ships.

They like receiving mail, paying off day, nude pin ups,
Sympathy, complaining and beer.
A seamans secret ambition is to change positions
With the owner for just one trip, to own a brewery
And to be loved by everyone in the world.

A seaman is a Sir Galahad in a Japenese brothel,
A pyschiatrist with Readers Digest on the table,
Don Quixote with a discharge book,
The saviour of mankind with his back teeth awash,
Valentino with a fiver in his back pocket and
Democracy personified in a red Chinese prison cell.

No one is subject to so much abuse, wrongly accused,
So often misunderstood by so many as a seaman.
He has the patience of Job, the honesty of a fool,
And the heaven sent ability to laugh at himself.
When he returns home from a long voyage

No one else but a seaman can create such an atmosphere
Of suspense and longing as he walks through the door
With the magic words on his lips,
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