K.Simonov - Wait For Me



Wait for me, and I`ll come back,

Wait and I`ll come.

Wait through autumn`s yellow rains

And its tedium.

Steel your heart and do not grieve,

Wait through winter`s hase,

Wait through wind and raging storm,

Wait through summer`s blaze.

Wait when others wait no more,

When my letters stop,

Wait with hope that never wanes,

Wait and don`t give up.



Wait for me and I`ll come back,

Patience, dear one, learn.

Turn away from those who say

That I`ll not return.

Let my son and mother weep

Tears of sorrow, let

Friends insist that it is time,

That you must forget.

Do not listen to their kind

Words of sympathy,

Do not join them if they drink

To my memory.



Wait for me. Let those who don`t -

Once I`m back with you -

Let them say that it was luck

That had seen us through.

You and I alone will know

That I safely came,

Spiting every kind of death,

Through that lethal flame,

Just because you learned to wait

Staunchly, stubbornly,

And like no one else on earth

Waited, love, for me.