Unwithering rose,
we are not alone
and if you think
that our people
have no other
critical choices to make
remember that here
on this piece of land
we are all together
because we bear
the same memory
and we have learned
how to resist
every time
that any
barbarian conqueror
has tried
to encroach on us
so, don’t stand
alone in the countryside
look at the flowers
lifting
even the sky.