Your death will serve as warning

1

Lovely world of cottages

Of mines and fields

2

Faces good in firelight good in frost

Refusing the night the wounds and blows

3

Faces good for everything

Now the void fixes you

Your death will serve as warning

4

Death the heart turned over

5

They made you pay your bread

Sky earth water sleep

And the misery

of your life

6

They said they wanted intelligence

They measured the strong judged the mad

Handed out alms split a cent in two

They greeted the corpses

They were polite

7

They persevere overdo they are not of our world

8

Women children keep the same treasure

Green springtime leaves and pure milk

Endurance

In their pure eyes

9

Women children keep the same treasure

In their eyes

Men defend them as they can

10

Women children keep the same red roses

In their eyes

They show their blood

11

Fear and courage to live and die

Death so hard and so simple

12

Men for whom this treasure was sung

Men for whom this treasure was wrecked

13

True men for whom despair

Nourishes hope’s devouring ardour

Let us open the future’s last bud

14

Pariahs the death earth and ugliness

Of our enemies have a colour

Grim as our night

We shall win out

 Victory of Guernica

by Paul Eluard

Gernika, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Libya, Algeria, Cambodia, Vietnam, Gaza, Jerusalem,... Syria, Sudan, Central African Republic, Congo, Irak,... the people!