ZUKO:
Promise that you’ll end my life should I become like dad;
Promise you will take me down if I become so bad.
Cancer has run in families since before my incarnation;
An awatara must vow to curtail malignant transformation!
For the crimes of my ancestors, I would gladly atone:
The sins of my forefathers should burden me alone
But it all seems too much for a teenaged firelord to bear,
Though involving anyone else would truly seem unfair;
Of others who can help, I’m really not aware,
Yet it pains me, my friend, to have this to share!
But if I ask too much, I would gladly take my own
Life—erase my curse from this realm;
If I must uphold honour and honour all alone
The captain of the ship must hold on to the helm!
AANG:
Can’t there be another way for all of this to end?
If I didn’t kill your father, how could I kill my friend?
Would you find it honourable to reward sa pamamagitan ng incapacitation
Like trying to cure a headache sa pamamagitan ng plain decapitation?
What would that do to erase crimes of the past?
What does it matter if those things didn’t last?
We are all connected, you and I;
To destroy you would make part of me die!
How could anyone self-dismember?
How could taking something away make it better?
The answer must lie not in the part, but the whole;
Before pagganap so rashly each must paghahanap his own soul:
To find a connection
With Ultimate Reality
And paghahanap for a solution
We cannot yet see….
Promise that you’ll end my life should I become like dad;
Promise you will take me down if I become so bad.
Cancer has run in families since before my incarnation;
An awatara must vow to curtail malignant transformation!
For the crimes of my ancestors, I would gladly atone:
The sins of my forefathers should burden me alone
But it all seems too much for a teenaged firelord to bear,
Though involving anyone else would truly seem unfair;
Of others who can help, I’m really not aware,
Yet it pains me, my friend, to have this to share!
But if I ask too much, I would gladly take my own
Life—erase my curse from this realm;
If I must uphold honour and honour all alone
The captain of the ship must hold on to the helm!
AANG:
Can’t there be another way for all of this to end?
If I didn’t kill your father, how could I kill my friend?
Would you find it honourable to reward sa pamamagitan ng incapacitation
Like trying to cure a headache sa pamamagitan ng plain decapitation?
What would that do to erase crimes of the past?
What does it matter if those things didn’t last?
We are all connected, you and I;
To destroy you would make part of me die!
How could anyone self-dismember?
How could taking something away make it better?
The answer must lie not in the part, but the whole;
Before pagganap so rashly each must paghahanap his own soul:
To find a connection
With Ultimate Reality
And paghahanap for a solution
We cannot yet see….