Poems (Radford)/Russian

by Dollie Radford

Russian

All the night and all the cay,
In the desert I do stray,
Through the wind and through the snow,
In the darkness I must go.

When the winter days are done,
Fainting in the summer sun,
On the treeless plains I stray,
Through the night and through the day.

From your heart which is my home,
Sad and outcast I do roam,
Lost beneath an alien sky,
While the suns and moons go by.

Deep the pain that does not end,
Sharp the cry that I do send,
From the desert where I roam,
Sad and outcast from my home.