A Margalida [English translation]

You left, I don't know where.

Not even the mountains or the birds

know your steps.

You flew away without saying anything

leaving us only

the song of your laughter.

I don't know where you are, Margalida1,

but, if it reaches you, take this song

as a kiss.

Shout your

lover's name,

with a black flag around your heart.

And maybe you don't know

that his body often

grows in our veins

when we see his face

drawn on walls

that mourn his story.

I don't know where you are, Margalida,

but, if it reaches you, take this song

as a kiss.

Shout your

lover's name,

with a black flag around your heart.

And with this song

may his cry be reborn

in fields, seas, and forests,

and may his name

be like the loyal shadow

that is always ours.

I don't know where you are, Margalida,

but, if it reaches you, take this song

as a kiss.

Shout your

lover's name,

with a black flag around your heart.

1. This song is addressed to Margalida Bover Vadell, the girlfriend of Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anti-capitalist activist executed at age 25 by the Franco regime in 1974 after a trial by military tribunal, for killing a Spanish police officer in a shootout during an operation to arrest several MIR members.