¿Dónde están las flores?

(Adaptation to Spanish: Rolando Alarcón)

Where are the flowers that
were born here?
Where are the flowers,
who cut them?
The girls were the ones
who picked them,
and that it happens like this,
Who can prevent it?

Where are the girls,
where have they gone?
Where are the girls,
what happened to them?
The boys were the ones
who took them,
and that it happens like this,
who can prevent it?

Where are the boys,
where have they gone?
Where are the boys,
what happened to them?
They were made soldiers,
they went to war
and that it happens like this,
who can prevent it?

Where are the soldiers,
where have they gone?
Where are the soldiers,
what happened to them?
In their graves they sleep
the eternal sleep
and that it happens like this,
who can prevent it?

And the graves, where are they?
They disappeared.
And the graves, where are they?
They are no longer seen.
They covered them with flowers
that were born here
and that it happens like this,
who can prevent it?