Brief [English translation]

For days I haven't known whether I would ever see her again.

Maybe someone is keeping her from me.

For days I've been craving her near me.

Oh, I would die without her.

If only she could be here just once more.

Oh, this letter

I cannot read,

For with this letter she bids me farewell.

Our love can't survive.

With the opening of this letter we die.

Why haven't we fled yet?

And why did I not see it coming?

Oh now my happiness is forever lost.

If only we had kept going without turning back around.

But without this love,

I cannot live,

And without her near me,

I cannot go on.

I don't know what I should say.

I am speechless out of necessity.

What we feared has happened

And is knocking me down.

Father is imperturbable.

He threatens me with everything that could terrify or discourage me.

I don't know how it could possibly go on.

I don't know a way out.

I only pray that this difficult ordeal will not completely wipe me out.

Our love could not be.

And with the opening of this letter we die.

But without this love I can't live

and without her near me I can't go on, can't go on...