What is a man?
Who has not felt
His rage plunder his body.
What is a man?
Who has not fought a battle
With the brave and the fools.
What is a man?
Who has not plucked flowers
For his lover.
What is a man?
Who has not cried in the depth of despair.
What is a man?
Who has not spent his nights
In flesh and blood
Brought home is wealth
Tore opened the sky
And the earth.
Not once,
but again and again,
in life and in death.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem