I posted this to my Facebook account after my first year of living in Russia, and was about to start my second - I thought it would be apt to share both the poem and the video I posted, having just started my fourth year!
will it ever end?
I'm here for a little bit longer;
as time goes by,
I'm still flying high;
and each day I'm getting stronger!
A year has passed,
"It'll never last";
were the cries of many the 'nay-sayer'
if only they knew,
I would see things through
for I'm nothing if not "a stayer"!
I'd done it before,
and such was the draw;
I decided to do it again;
of course then I was bolder,
and now I'm just older
and maybe a little less sane
But "Russia is bad,
you'll be lonely and sad
and the weather? It is most unwelcome!";
but I've showed my mettle
and here I will settle
to Ekaterinburg I have come!
White Winter first, then Green Winter too;
there are, I'm told, but two seasons
and I like it here, there's nothing to rue;
so to stay? I have many reasons!
It's not a vacation,
so it must be migration,
though the twain, they should not be mistaken;
but my friends, it would seem
you can follow a dream
and your life is not always forsaken.
Follow your heart,
and your head if you're smart,
together they will give you some thought;
and though it seems wrong,
you just be headstrong
and your wishes? Well yes, they'll be caught.
There'll be no Volte face
I've left that rat-race
and here I feel so at home;
me? I feel good,
and so I should;
there's nowhere left to roam!
so you believe what I have to tell,
for what I have said is my truth;
and my belief can be yours as well
t'is to find, my friend, forsooth!
If the video doesn't play.....follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mIQ3YE54Gw
Clive
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