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Enter Poem or Quote (Required)Required Achab*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Achab by T. Wignesan One man alone stands erect before the king, and speaks A man Alone The king is not accustomed to being confronted face to face He reigns over heads bent. He prohibits their looking at him The eyes of men. He has nothing but idols In front of him.* His looks and those of the others Stare into the void The majesty. The king is not accustomed to being addressed. Words only serve as air to fan him. The empty mask does not listen In the same way as his eyes stare into the void. This muteness represents the idol That each supplicates. He pretends not to exist Faced by the void His majesty. The king is not accustomed to being human. Being appears to him a promiscuous entity. This livestock’s the leather Produced by thunders. He remains the imperturbed idol A nimbus of lightnings. His glory resides in his power to kill : Void the earth, His majesty. The king is not accustomed to being drawn into discussion Think what one may, his power enables him to shed blood. Whether one dies or survives He should defer to the monarch And make believe the king’s the idol Whether dew drops or rain pours. Everything should find its place In his vacant looks In majesty. One man alone stands erect before the king And speaks. Between the king and him there’s no level ground. Neither For the moment, between this man and the mass. Such a man Is not to be led some day by the flock. The king limits the grazing grounds of the masses Whose far to high foreheads he’ll mark and relegate them to the slaughter-house It’s our species which is uneasy at being erect Our fear of being able to think for ourselves being sanctioned by law Commonplace couch grass being nibbled at on this flat earth. That’s in no way the man. Who is the man ? Question Void like the Void up above which answers him. The irruption of evidence in a man Who’s absolutely certain that he can do anything he says he can Absolutely certain of the Speech in him. A man alone, who deliberately blows through This painted idol in the void. This blasphemy Which imitates here below the empty Glory in the heavenly sphères. One act of courage detaches itself from the crowd And speaks for the army of ages and says : I As if all the kings were so many skulls Weightless sleigh bells in the glorious void Only one says I because he’s certain of existing Having dedicated his life to serving the only Living Being. He’s the man : his entire being is made up of the word Received, given. He knows what power resides in him The Void has emptied him of everything but his Reign And his own name serves as a gage. « As true as the Living Being is the Living Being And I in his service There’ll not be during these years Neither dew drops nor downpours Only my word » Says Elie. *Achab, son of Amri and King of Israel (either 918-897 BCE or 875-854 BCE). Married Jezebel. Allied with Josaphat, King of Juda, against Syria. Killed by arrow during war to conquer Ramoth Galaad. * Queen Jezebel, Princess of Sidonia, led Achab into idolatry, according to Catholic Encyclopaedia (Tu, O.C. t. II, p. 592) © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
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