As the years, the ages, the epochs flow by
All seeks warmth and escape from the frost and the storm.
Then why is it northward that these birds fly,
If birds only belong in the south where it’s warm?

They do not need glory or greatness
Under wings ice will come to an end,
And they will find avian happiness
Their reward for braving the wind.

Why can’t we just live, what has shaken our nights?
What cast us away to sail the high surf?
We have yet to catch sight of the Northern Lights.
How rarely that happens - their shine is of worth!

Stillness. Just seagulls - like lightning.
And we feed them the void by hand.
But as our reward for the silence
There will certainly have to be sound.

How long we have dreamed only dreams of white,
Because all other hues were covered by snow.
We went blind long ago from that glare, that sight,
But we relearn our sight from a black streak of soil.

Our throats are released from speechlessness,
Our weakness like shade melts away.
The reward for nights of hopelessness
Will be unending arctic day.

Freedom, hope, and the North - a borderless land
Spotless snow, like a life stretching long without lies.
And crows do not pluck our eyes out of our head
Because here in this land not a single crow flies.

The ones who believed no dire prophecies,
To rest in the snow never lay
For them the reward for loneliness
Is that someone must come their way.