UNTIL THEN

UNTIL THEN It’s no desire nor decision of mine There are reasons I must leave you You, my beloved, soon to be wife This village, this country, this life I’ll keep that love strong and true Growing like any everlasting vine Sentenced unfairly for that crime To be sent away to distant shores My innocence was never believed The real culprit must be relieved And oblivious to pain he’d cause But now I have to serve my time Perhaps years, I cannot tell when But one day I promise I’ll return Free of shackles in a foreign land My pain I know you understand I’ll hope all offers you will spurn And keep faith in me, until then