Settling Down

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Coming here
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Homesick
I measured the miles
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Days inched into years
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come and go back
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; t  t4 x) g0 q/ @We never did
0 x$ \0 s+ J7 V4 C4 u$ Jnor can we now
( W9 C+ y/ p6 \resettle in the old country
1 O$ p' {' |4 b2 Bleave our children
and their children
settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990