SAVE FROM OBLIVION

(Konstanty Ildefons Gałczynski)

 

We have walked down so many roads

On so many paths we struggled

So many rains, so many snows,

Watched snowflakes float over the lampposts

 

All the departures and all the letters

Heartbreaking hours in cities foreign

Yet we would always get up and continue

And reach wherever it was we were going

 

And in that never ending hardship

All our plans and our worries

Breads sliced, books read, sunrises, kisses

All that we shared all we enjoyed

 

Your eyes two candles of rarest beauty

Their light radiating right from your heart

And I have just one wish for tonight

I wish to save that heart of yours

From oblivion

 

A veil hangs down your slender shoulders

Adorned with songs of nightingales

It runs over the hall, across the back yard

And reaches Venus up in the sky

 

And you the flight and height of clouds

Shimmering water and adamant stone

And I just have one wish for tonight

I wish to save that look in your eyes

From oblivion