tableau vivant.(living picture.)
tu vives pour moi?(do you live for me?)
or are you like the paintings
you admire so desperately. still
ta peinture écaillée(your paint scratched)
ton cadre uséyour frame worn
i would hang you high, either way.
red curtains, gilded frame
se souvenir des jours joyeux(reminds of better days)
et des regards grandes d’admiration.(and great looks of admiration.)

i think you know this.
i am not sure you care.
voir la vie dans mes yeux(to see life from my eyes)
et se sentir mes larmes sur tes joues(and feel my tears from your cheeks)
and yet i feel yours, keenly,
and see your careful posture for what it is
serres-moi prisonier dans tes paysages(hold me captive in your landscape)
apportes tes coloures à ma scène(bring your colours to my scene)

allow me to join you, in your living picture
motionless muses, art intertwined
je rapproche le pinceau t’embrasser(i bring the brush close to kiss you)
je fais partie de ta voile.(i am part of your canvas.)

NOTE: this poem is by two people! The English parts were all me, and the French was by my dear friend Kim.