1. I shall live despite the pain and foes
Like an eagle atop the lofty summit

2. I soar towards the shining sun, mocking
The clouds, the rain and the winds

3. I do not glance at the gloomy shadow
Nor what lies in the black abyss’ depth

4. And I wander in the world of emotions, dreaming
Singing - that is the poets’ bliss

5. I listen to the music of life and its inspiration
And melt the soul of the universe into my poetry

6. And I harken to the divine voice that
Revives the echoes long dead in my heart

7. And I say to fate that does not bend
From warring against my hopes with every tribulation

8. The raging flame in my blood is not extinguished
By waves of sorrow and storms of misery

9. So break my heart if you can, for it
Will be like the unfeeling, solid rock

10. That knows not the abject complaining and crying
And pleading of children and the weak

11. And lives defiant, always gazing
Upon the beautiful distant dawn

12. Fill my path with fears and darkness
And whirling thorns and pebbles

13. Spread terror over it and strew it
With the stones of calamity and lightning of sorrows

14. I shall still walk despite all that, strumming
My lyre, singing my melody

15. I walk with a dreaming, burning spirit
In the darkness of pain and illness

16. The light is in my heart and between my wings
So why should I fear walking in the darkness?

17. I am the flute whose melodies never end
As long as I am among the living

18. And I am the vast meadow that only
Grows more vibrant as storms batter it

19.
But when my life wanes and ends

20. And the minstrel falls silent
And the flame of the universe dims in my heart

21. That lived like a flaming crimson torch
Then I am happy that I transform

22. From the world of sins and hatreds
To dissolve in the eternal dawn of beauty

23. And drink from the fountain of light
And I say to the crowd who strove

24. To destroy me and wished to topple my edifice
And saw my shadow motionless on the thorns

25. And imagined that I had breathed my last
And they went to kindle flames with everything

26. They found, to burn my limbs atop it
And they came to extend platters to eat

27. My flesh and sip my blood from them
I say to them, my face radiant

28. And a mocking smile upon my lips
That pickaxes cannot fell my shoulders

29. Nor can fire consume my limbs
So fling the weeds into the fire, play

30. O band of children, beneath my sky
And if storms rebel and terror

31. Seizes the heart of the blue dome
And you see me, a singing bird

32. Above the storms in the distant sky
Then pelt my shadow with stones and disappear

33. Fearing the raging winds and storms
And there, in the safety of homes, converse

34. Foolishly and speak nonsense
And malign me as you wish

35. And profess your hatred of me as you please
As for me, I shall answer you from above

36. With the beautiful sun and sunset before me
He whose heart swells with sacred inspiration