Settling Down

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Coming here
, @0 p9 }6 s' _7 b5 JSettling down
7 Z: s4 V8 s3 a6 a6 U7 W3 swas easier for you
Homesick
& I1 M( H7 f) P& J  Y. ]; FI measured the miles
1 Y: b2 P( C' w% Lset the clock's dark hands
) p7 s' @; X0 N3 q$ fwith a view of returning to home ground
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Days inched into years
- ]) s% {" C0 q% N0 H8 l  eI watched others
come and go back
; h! M5 ?* ]; K0 t: J! A4 Cgo and come back
' z5 q1 I- D( q$ s7 R+ hWe never did
- {% V1 F' f% n# S6 d5 dnor can we now
resettle in the old country
5 i9 k$ }3 f# y4 ~leave our children
and their children
. y# t$ e) v0 l& |" I/ ]settled down in theirs


8 m. O; l5 Z& P9 r-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990