Одна [Odna] [English translation]

The hair of smoke weaves around

The palm of ardent fire.

Pain will rise and cry:

“Heaven, take me!”

I will give my blind soul

I will burn down to ashes

And in eternal chains of suffocation

I will come back here again

Oh, I could not sleep

Yes, in the dark night

And the wind does not dispel

The pain about my homeland.

Rise up like a bird and remain there

But I cannot reach the sky with one wing.

The pain devours my soul

My world is destroyed

But I am here

Under the greedy gaze of others

With foreign roots

I lie prostrate on Mother Earth

And do not get up

Do not get up!

Now, do not get up!

Alone among faded faces

Stranger in the land of shadows

Again I wander through the world

In hiding from people

I will expose my secret

Keeping the covenant of my ancestors

Maybe even after centuries

My kin will find me

I am running outside the wheel of time

Running away, and I call Yav to me

But Yav’s rumor says:

“I am dying with an alien soul,

And at the edge of my homeland.”

I’m dying, I escape…

My family went to sleep in oblivion

I am a ring of the worldly chain

That shackled me to alien thoughts

Forged in false speech.

I want to run away from here

Away from people

Run!

Alone among faded faces,

Stranger in the land of shadows,

Again I wander through the world

In hiding from people

I will expose my secret

Keeping the covenant of my ancestors

Maybe after centuries

I will not be alone!

Standing in the ashes

Of the dead fire,

Where are you, native gods?

Heaven! Hear me!

I will give my blind soul

I will burn down to ashes

And in eternal chains of suffocation

I will come back here again.