I've been away from home for many years

Why is my heart still filled with pain

Time passes quietly

The old voices still whisper.

How can I forget the image of my homeland?

The place where I took my first steps in life.

The lullaby of my mother, so far away.

The love song of complete happiness.

Then one day, mother suddenly passed away

In the regret of her children

Not understanding the story of eternal separation

Happiness broken, sadness alone.

How can I forget my barren homeland?

My grandmother raised me from selling loads of firewood

Morning and afternoon, sun and rain, miserable life

Silently enduring without complaint.

Then one day, my grandmother sent me away

Back to my paternal home, never knowing

Grandma choked with tears, giving her earnest instructions

Smiling as if crying, hiding her tears of separation.

Grandma! I bow my head in apology

Never once repaying the favor

No more chance to express the cause

Life in exile, drifting.

How can I forget the longing

Carried since childhood

How can I forget

When I still live with hope.