Unto Ashes

Estuans Interius

Unto Ashes


Estuans interius 
Ira vehementi 
In amaritudine 
Loquor mee menti 
Factus de materia 
Cinis elementi 
Similis sum folio 
De quo ludunt venti 
Feror ego veluti 
Sine nauta navis 
Ut per vias aeris 
Vaga fertur avis 
Non me tenet vincula 
Non me tenet clavis 
Quero mihi similes 
Et adiungor pravis... 

(Burning inside with violent rage, with bitterness I mumble to myself / 
created from ashes, I am like a leaf played with by the winds... 
I am drifting away like a boat without an oarsman / 
like a bird in flight, chains cannot hold me, 
locks cannot imprison me / I search for 
my kind, and I join the depraved...)