Wait For Me and I'Ll Be Back By Konstantin Simonov
Wait for me and I’ll be back
Only wait for me,
When your sadness turns in black,
Yellow rains are free.
When the snows fall down like fate,
When there is a heat,
When the others cannot wait,
Don’t remember a bit.
Wait when from the far-far place
Letters cannot come,
Wait when they’ve got tired face
thinking all is gone.
Wait for me and I’ll be back,
Don’t be kind with those
Who in heart is turning black,
Who forgot and lost.
Let believe my son and mom
I am here no more.
Friends will say that I am gone
near fire in woe,
They will drink their bitter wine
to remember the soul,
wait. With them at the same time
Do not drink in mourn.
Wait for me and I’ll be back
in spite of any woes,
Who couldn’t wait and find my track
will say: lucky you both.
They will never understand,
When the fire got free
You have saved with faithful hand
waiting so for me.
How did I survive – we’re two
known. And no one tells
You could wait for me, just you,
Like nobody else.
P.S. This is my translation of poem of Konstantin Simonov. He was war journalist during World War II
Copyright © Serge Lyrewing | Year Posted 2018
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