GrUncle Joseph

 

I sit in this place in

Despondent desparation!!

My experience, now,

Entire separation!

 

My heart, with them went...

An "Issue of Government"!!

The quota was full,

NOW, much---I resent!!

 

Why have they left me?

Why could I not go?

My life is in turmoil,

And, anger, not slow!!

 

PLEASE, send me a word-

From--your hearth, and my kin;

That, somehow, your life-

I might have part in..

 

Send me a sign, from

"Sweet Freedom's Shore,"-

That I might have hope

To gather, once more..

 

A part of my being,

Went sailing with your,

My heart is now broken,

For, thinking of you.

 

My father and brothers

Have journeyed away,

My mother and sister-

Did, leave me today.

 

I sit here alone;

As they take their leave--

I sit here alone,

And, feel my heart grieve.

 

I am the last

On this Baltic Shore,

Feeling deceit,

Remorse and regret--

Now----nothing believe!!!

 

 

Jouyas Ruksznis

lived and died in Lithuania

 

Shirley Ruksznis Young © 1999