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
But before You I'll open the depths of my heart
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
Though I know a new dawn will gleam tomorrow
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
That I don't know where I'll be laid in a grave
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
Before I humble myself before my nothingness