1. O you who are dead and you who are immortalized
In death while the living are hostage to its calamity,

2. The vile betrayal did not reach you,
But it reached those around you.

3. It is the story of the blind beast, unaware
Of the tyranny of time with its claws and fangs.

4. It roared and howled heedlessly,
Awake, so it prepared its cave for ruin.

5. It brings to life past victims, though they
Are greater than any memory or monument.

6. For the sake of meaning we glorify the day,
And the most precious love in the hearts of loved ones.

7. This day was sanctified by those who were hurt by it before
And gathered at its altar.

8. Nations cried for it with wandering tears
And awe, feeling its wound as their own.

9. Betrayal persists, the dominant one, striking
Justice, concerned with nothing but its own interests,

10. Arrogant and impudent with all it has made
Of peace an illusion to be torn apart by its fangs.

11. So the free must beware and stand united,
For justice is unlike injustice, despite its disguises.

12. And no matter how the people are deceived, they will not yield
To tyranny and arrogance on the day they are brought to account.