Amante Buontempo

HALLU LILL-POPLU HIELES

Mishut min jara d-dlam f'ghemil haddiehor,
biex jirbah hu bil-qerq li jxandar kliemu:
is-sewwa qatt ma jirbah bi kliem b'iehor;
poplu maqsum jasal malajr fi tmiemu.
Jahasra ghal min jizra' s-semm tal-firda,
ghax jahsad frott l-imwied fid-djar ta' wliedu;
il-hbieb li jsiru ghedewwa jgibu l-qirda,
u tant hsarat ta' llum jibqghu jizdiedu.
Hallu, mexxejja, 'l dan il-poplu hieles,
biex jaghzel hu l-futur ghal art twelidna;
tibqghux timlewlu mohhu b'hafna flieles!
Kull Malti li jivvota kif irid,
ihalli l-kotra tghid kif ALLA jridna:
U dak li jsir minn Malta jkun ta' gid!

20/12/02

WHAT DOES WAR MEAN?

To those who never lived in times of war
may mean injustice as a just revenge;
may mean an after-suffering
of Nations poor,
that find no means to feed their families,
but find kind friends
to help them to confront their enemies.
May mean a remedy,
as well as a necessity,
to stop the courage of some terrorists,
who commit siucide,
with the only scope
of vindicating their opponents' pride.
But to me
and to all lovers of a living world
War means destruction, hatred, suffering.
It means the contrary
of what we want or hope:
in fact we want
the end of terrorism and caprice!
And so it goes against
all men's desire of free life and Peace.