un chant d'amour -vs- a song of desire

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.



This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say
it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.



La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine
the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you



and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.



Jean Genet - Un chant d'amour (moyen métrage - 1950)
Carol Ann Duffy - Words, Wide Night (1955)

(merci Marcos)