I'm sad, oh God, for me in the west
You've spilled a radiant rainbow of glows
Before me you extinguish in the azure water
Like empty ears of grain with my head held high
I stand, void of pleasure and fulfillment
For strangers I wear the same face
Though you gild the sky and sea for me so
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
But before You I'll open the depths of my heart
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
As grieves at a mother's departure
A small child, so close to tears
Looking at the sun, which throws from the waves at me
Today, lost on the great sea
A hundred miles from shore and a hundred miles to shore
I saw storks flying in the air
That I once knew them on a Polish fallow field
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
Though I know a new dawn will gleam tomorrow
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
That I often pondered over people's graves
That I hardly knew my family home
That I was like a pilgrim, toiling on his way
By the flashes of lightning
You will see my white bones
Not entrusted to the watch of columned tombs
But I'm like a man who envies
So, that you prepare an unknown bed for me
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
That I don't know where I'll be laid in a grave
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
In my homeland, an innocent child was told
To pray for me every day, and yet
I know my ship isn't sailing to my homeland
At the rainbow of glows, which so immensely
Your angels have spread out in heaven
In a hundred years, some new people after me
So, a child's prayer can do nothing
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God
Before I humble myself before my nothingness
I'm sad, I'm sad, oh God