1. In the custody of the past have been hidden
The hours of my tormenting dreams

2. Days when I had no care but
The teacher’s task and the book

3. Days when my father was in his prime
And I was the light of youth

4. Days when my dream was naught
But a ray of shooting stars

5. If I forget, I'll not forget the slopes
And what's on those slopes

6. And the sun is about to disappear
And the bell announces departure

7. And my father on a rock pondering
In the evening of the month of August

8. As to what was he thinking
As he gazed into the fog

9. I'll not forget my first companions
They were and I was their confidante

10. If I came to them smiling
I found comfort and a smile

11. And if I got angry, they consulted
On what would restore peace to me

12. The frivolity of youth messed with them
Changing their ways year after year

13. For youth is but playfulness of days
So beware you don't get fooled

14. In the custody of the past
Is a tenderness that melted away

15. To it in turbulence floated
An orphan among orphans

16. It is my bereaved soul that
Affliction has prayed and fasted for

17. My mother, and poverty has found
In her eyes a gateway

18. She laments life as if
She lost her husband halfway through the month

19. How many times did she look at me
Mumbling, how beautiful it would have been

20. Had I been able to read in her eyes
The future it beholds

21. I'm on a path I can no longer
Complete today, reach its beginning

22. Oh mother, be gentle and patient
I must complete it

23. I finished the stage of misery
And I also have a stage ahead of me

24. Christ carried his cross
To the lofty Golgotha