Translation of Plus Rien from French to English
There are only a few minutes left of my life
At most a few hours, I feel that I am weakening
My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth
I was once described, when I was a child
What the world looked like a very long time ago
When my great-grandfather's parents were alive
And it still snowed in winter
In those times we lived at the rhythm of the seasons
And the end of summers brought the harvest
Pure and clear water flowed in the streams
Where deer and moose came to drink
But I have only seen a desolate planet
Lunar landscapes and suffocating heat
And all my friends dying of thirst or hunger
Like flies falling until there is nothing left
Nothing left
Nothing left
There are only a few minutes left of my life
At most a few hours, I feel that I am weakening
My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth
All this started several years ago
When my ancestors were obsessed
With pieces of paper called money
Which made some men really rich and powerful
And these new gods, stopping at nothing
Were ready to do anything to achieve their ends
To enrich themselves even more they razed the earth
Polluted the ambient air and dried up the rivers
But after a hundred years people rose up
And warned them that everything had to stop
But they did not understand this wise prophecy
These men only spoke in terms of profits
It was years later that they saw the nonsense
In panic they declared a state of emergency
When all the oceans swallowed up the islands
And the floods hit the big cities
And afterwards for a whole decade
There were hurricanes and then fires
Earthquakes and the great drought
Distress was seen on every face
People had to fight against pandemics
Decimated by millions by atrocious diseases
Then the others died of thirst or hunger
Like flies falling until there is nothing left
Nothing left
Nothing left
My brother died yesterday in the middle of the desert
I am now the last human on earth
In the end the intelligence that was given to us
Was nothing more than a beautiful poisoned gift
For there are only a few minutes left of life
At most a few hours, I feel that I am weakening
I can no longer walk, I can hardly breathe
Goodbye humanity, goodbye humanity