Puhe [English translation]

Just a moment ago

I was big as a giant

From a big mouth in a big voice

I stated words, shouted aloud

Words from that, what the opinion

of mine of you and your work(s)

I advocated, for the land*

That sinks underneath the feet

I look at the moon, who owns it?

Whose is the sky, who's is this land?

Whose cradle the death swings?

From whose deed we travel here?

A tussock by tussock, a meter by meter

I sink into the ground, to the watery ground

It's useless here, it's useless to shout

because here they don't hear words

This birds sing for me

tell about that, how it's small

the life of one, one person

Because this land is eternal

I look at the moon, who owns it?

Whose is the sky, who's is this land?

Whose cradle the death swings?

From whose deed we travel here?