Courage [English translation]

Courage, I'm writing to you

It's been a long time since your little face

Left me rather alone

I miss you these days

Courage you remember

When you were my armour

The hard and bitter times

We went through, you remember?

Courage, I want you in my pocket

For the days when I feel awful... and small

See, how I waddle

My look becomes shifty too often

Not like before...

Courage, on stealthy paws

You left the dance

And my pad, I sub-let it

To my mate, prudence

I walk on the eggs

That I laid the same day

Too polite, too short of words

To ask to be loved

Courage, I want you as a reflection

For the days when I feel ugly... and small

See, how restless I am

I take on water, start to list 1

On a gust of wind

Not like before

Courage, your address

Is not written with a pen

Liberty, that wretch

Has given me the news again

I've seen that you live

On the places of Tahrir 2

Jasmin in the lock

Hope without fail

Courage, I want you as a light

For the days when I feel proud... of being here

See, I applaud those who believed themselves cursed

And who at my age

Have courage

1. as in list to the side, to lean over like a boat starting to sink2. Tahrir Square, Cairo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_Square

• Artist:Renan Luce