Brief [English translation]

For days I don’t know

If I’ll ever see her again

Maybe they’ll never let her

Go to me again

For days I long

For her nearness

Oh, I will die without her

Would she be here just once more

Oh, this letter

I am not allowed to read

Because just with this letter

She bids farewell to me

Our love is not allowed to survive

By opening this letter we will die

Why haven’t we fled already?

And why haven’t I seen it coming?

Oh now my happines is lost forever

I wish we had left without turning back once

But without this love

I cannot live

And without her nearness

I can’t go on

I don’t know what to say

Out of this necessity I am mute

What we feared has happened

And takes me to the ground

Father is inpertubable

Threatens me with everything

That one could frighten me with and daze me with

Don’t know how it will go on

(I) know no way out of it

I just pray that this hard test will not kill me completely

Our love was not allowed to exist

And by opening this letter we will die

But without this love I cannot live

And without her nearness I can’t go on