I’ve lost a lot of things worth while my pleasure and my fun,
And the days of my captivity pass slowly one by one,
But as I sit in loneliness, each day more plain I see,
My body may be captive but my heart and mind are free.
I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…
A! Fredome is a noble thing
/ Fredome mays man to haiff liking.
/ Fredome all solace to man giffis,
/ He levys at es that…
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, / Let him combat for that of his neighbours.
For years I wandered hill and moor /
Half looking for the road /
Winding into fairyland.
Nuair a bha mi sa bhun-sgoil
/ fhuair mi tiona sleamhainn tana
/ far an cuirinn m’ fhaclan
/ sgrìobhte air sgoltaidhean pàipeir.
/
/ Chan eil cuimhne agam…
I opened a book and in I strode
/ Now nobody can find me.
/ I’ve left my chair, my house, my road,
/ My town…
in memoriam Vicky Patterson
/
/ The bird that was trapped has flown
/ The sky that was grey is blue
/ The bone that was dead…
Like an enormous wave
/ that lies down over my heart.
/ Like the stunning beauty
/ of the wind over the pines.
/ Like an immense, vital…
Hold on Women of great courage
/ You have held on so bravely and tirelessly
/ Hold on Women of great courage, hold on
/
/ Women…
It is time to continue
/ And today I greet you here
/ As if for the first time
/
/ Compañeros/Hermanos/Hombres y Mujeres
/ Gentes del Sol
/ Del Caribe
/ De…
The bird who passes over there
/ The light bird
/ Who flaps his wings
/ And slices through the air over there in the horizon,
/ Doesn’t…
