1. Why don't you return? Every fighter came back
Wearing sergeant stripes or captain bars

2. And you returned, I hoped your touch
From the pulse of your ghost, from my promises turning green

3. And your clinging to my hopes made me anxious
My eyes on the flat, lifeless road

4. Season after season I waited for you and
Season started, stung by spiteful smoke

5. The hills spit their blood, their life
And dug for a faded winter

6. And one day, another procession returned
So I sniffed out your steps in the roaring crowds

7. And imagined your body and features
From every face in the teeming gathering

8. Until I drew near and searched each house
For you, with no hopeful expectation

9. Who saw you? Where are you? No echo
Guides me to you, no answer comes back

10. And I returned to the wait at home like a bird
Restless, leaning on one wing

11. Don't go down, sun: the dark woods
Consume my face, swallow my bed

12. I dozed as the walls listened like I do
And coughed like the wounded, awake

13. The ceiling asks who my Paradise is for
Who my mouth is for, the proud swelling of my chest?

14. And the rains knead the street
Into viscous mud, pebbles stiff and silent

15. And I call out, sensing your steps
Drawing near, then far, like a wandering specter

16. Something tells me you'll not return
I seek refuge from the cursed whisperer

17. Will you return to me? Do you know
That I call you, you're my hope and support

18. And he sympathizes, panting like one out of breath
You left me alone, left my father

19. And sister, to growing sorrow
And I lost my mother - ah, Mother, open

20. Your eyes, turn to me and see
I buried my family, only graves

21. Are my family, my loving mother and father
You wandered off or fell victim

22. And I remained alone, to the lifeless void
Will you return to me? My night spreads its shadow

23. And screams, where are my restful places?