Faith is found within its own existence
for we share the same syndromes
with people we don’t even know
because we are deprived of bread and water
and we sold our clothes for occasional prices
because we worked in thousands of professions
yet were drawn naked and hungry.

We will not surrender
although we draw in polluted atmospheres,
wear false passion as a trade mark,
although our youth crumbled
and the Erinyes came against us as nightmares.

We will not surrender
and let our melancholy flow
as abundant light,
although we lack the maternal kiss
and are unaware of our fathers
forging our historical existence.

Once more, we will not surrender
because we are lovers of the sun
and our songs lighten the world
and our shouts challenge the horizons
and our feelings escape
to return in the limelight,
from the confinement within ourselves
becoming the balsam of our wounds
and our actions of social rising
startled the world.

Finally, again and again,
we will not surrender
because one beat of our heart
is decisive and one smile from us
is enough.