Breyten - Berri Txarrak

Breyten zuen izena: Breyten Breytenbach

Hiltzera zigortua

Pretoriako kartzelan txuri bakarra

Beltz askoren artean

Egunsenti bakoitzan exekuzio bat

Heriotza tantaka

Lurra ireki baino lehen azken kantua bat

Kantatzen omen zuen kondenatuak

Breyten esnatzen zuten

Hiltzera zihoazenen

Kantu ezberdin horiek

Egunero batek

Breyten libratu egin zen urkatik

Baina inolaz ere kantu horietatik

Kondenatua

His name was Breyten: Breyten Breytenbach

Sentenced to death

The only white prisoner in Pretoria

Among the many blacks

One execution at dawn

Death drips

One last song before the earth opened

The convict allegedly sang

They woke Breet

They were going to die

These different songs

One every day

He freed himself from the gallows

But by no means from those songs

Condemned