What if My Marble Were the Moon?

Today

I want to offer you something poetic.

Walking along the lake on Saturday 27 May,

I noticed this charming statue of a little boy

standing on the top of a ladder with his arm stretched to the sky

holding a marble.

There is quite a long poem written. in French, between the rungs of the ladder.

Here is an extract:

"... And if my marble were the moon?"

"On his ladder in the mist,

he is as light as a feather,

He looks towards the sky

which has lost its honey-coloured planet,

He offers his only possession

as if ... his marble were the moon."

DeLa Perouze

Statue by artist: Sara.H

It was erected in 2015.

Link to the artist