Nihil restat… nisi silentium.

(Nothing remains… except silence.)

Non habemus tumulos, non lapides scriptos,

(We have no graves, no inscribed stones,)

nomina nostra abrasit manus potestatis.

(our names were scraped away by the hand of power.)

Fuimus numeri, fuimus pulvis in ordine,

(We were numbers, we were dust in formation,)

vita transacta… sine testimonio.

(a life spent… without witness.)

Non cecidimus soli, sed simul,

(We did not fall alone, but together,)

inermi, ignoti, sine cantu.

(unarmed, unknown, without song.)

Mors fuit brevis…

(Death was brief…)

oblivio longa.

(oblivion was long.)

Quis meminit servorum?

(Who remembers the servants?)

Quis numerat ossa sub civitatibus?

(Who counts the bones beneath the cities?)

Historia scripta est a manentibus,

(History is written by those who remain,)

non a dignis.

(not by those who were worthy.)

Nolite nos delere!

(Do not erase us!)

Nolite tacere nomina nostra!

(Do not silence our names!)

Si memoria est iudicium,

(If memory is a judgment,)

vos estis testes ultimi!

(you are the final witnesses!)

Per vocem, per sonum, per carmen,

(Through voice, through sound, through song,)

resistimus nihilo!

(we resist nothingness!)

Statuae fractae, tituli rasati,

(Statues shattered, inscriptions scraped away,)

facies deleta e marmore.

(faces erased from marble.)

Non casu — sed consilio,

(Not by accident — but by design,)

oblivio facta est gladius.

(oblivion was made a blade.)

Potestas regit quod meminitur,

(Power governs what is remembered,)

et quod perire iubetur.

(and what is ordered to perish.)

Gloria super ossa innominata stat,

(Glory stands upon unnamed bones,)

et vocatur… victoria.

(and it is called… victory.)

Non omnes mortui sumus sepulti,

(Not all of us who died were buried,)

nonnulli adhuc vivimus…

(some of us still live…)

sed iam obliti.

(but are already forgotten.)

Nolite nos delere!

(Do not erase us!)

Nolite claudere aures!

(Do not close your ears!)

Miliones fuimus sine titulo,

(We were millions without title,)

sed non sine vita!

(but not without life!)

Si oblivio est supplicium,

(If oblivion is punishment,)

hoc supplicium reicimus!

(we reject this punishment!)

Per vocem, per sonum, per carmen,

(Through voice, through sound, through song,)

vivimus adhuc!

(we still live!)

Non petimus gloriam.

(We do not ask for glory.)

Non petimus coronas.

(We do not ask for crowns.)

Solum hoc…

(Only this…)

ne sileamus.

(that we not be silent.)

Memoria est tribunal humanum.

(Memory is the tribunal of humanity.)

Ubi nomen servatur…

(Where a name is preserved…)

vita manet.

(life remains.)

Ubi nomen deletur…

(Where a name is erased…)

secunda mors fit.

(a second death occurs.)

Fatum oblitórum non erit finis!!!

(The fate of the forgotten will not be the end!!!)

Si saxa cadunt,

(If stones fall,)

si libri mentiuntur,

(if books lie,)

vox manet!

(the voice remains!)

Ex ossibus civitatum,

(From the bones of cities,)

ex labore abscondito,

(from hidden labor,)

clamamus una voce!

(we cry out with one voice!)

Nolite nos delere!

(Do not erase us!)

Audite nos nunc!

(Hear us now!)

Ars est ultimus motus contra silentium.

(Art is the final motion against silence.)

Si memoria venditur,

(If memory is sold,)

nos donum erimus.

(we will be the gift.)

Si mundus festinat oblivisci…

(If the world hastens to forget…)

nos manebimus.

(we will remain.)