Poika [English translation]

A boy sees his father's features in the mirror

They were often noticed in his childhood

He felt proud when being compared to

Adult men

A boy sees his father's gaze in the mirror,

The gaze he learned to avoid early on

The child got to learn from early age:

You have to please father

Years of silence on his shoulders

Who could erase from the stream of time?

Wounds pass from one generation to another

Who could grant a pardon when fathers' deeds

Are etched in grandsons? Who will pardon?

The discouraged boy has hidden, unaddressed

Defiance, which cannot come to light

He doesn't dare to come near another person,

To a place, where you'll be chastised

Shut your mouth, boy, or they'll think you're a girl

Tears won't help in the world

You don't become a man by arguing

Now stand there and swallow everything

Years of silence on his shoulders

Who could erase from the stream of time?

Wounds pass from one generation to another

Who could grant a pardon when fathers' deeds

Are etched in grandsons?

Who could erase from the stream of time?

Wounds pass from one generation to another

Who could grant a pardon when fathers' deeds

Are etched in grandsons? Who will pardon?