Sebastian Burduja: The trials and tribulations of a century etched into Romania will not have been in vain

The trials and tribulations of a century etched into Romania will not have been in vain. In the rear-view mirror of our time machine, in its ever-quicker search for meaning, everything suddenly becomes blindingly clear and natural: the doina and the dor, the carol and the skylark.

The endless column of our nation rises straight from the soil, kneaded by cracked palms and does not stop until it pierces through the sky, propping it up, so that it will no longer fall on us. Only then shall we be free.