When he and she one day will become migrants <br />And from their own Homelands live far away <br />The longing in them will be to return <br />And not as migrants to grow old and gray. <br /> <br />To spend their best years in their own Home country <br />Nostalgia in the migrant is always strong <br />They may have settled in their new surroundings <br />But to another Land their hearts belong. <br /> <br />They socialize with People from their Homeland <br />As many migrants are inclined to do <br />But still they think about their friends back yonder <br />There's no friends like the old friends you once knew. <br /> <br />It's been said that migrants should embrace the culture <br />Of the Land that they have chosen to live in <br />But many of their own kind would look on that as treason <br />And few would wish to be guilty of such a sin. <br /> <br />Some become migrants due to war and famine <br />They lived in fear of an enemy attack <br />Their cities and their homes destroyed by bombings <br />And sad for them they never can go back. <br /> <br />When he and she they leave their own home Country <br />For to live and work in cities far away <br />They don't forget their Homeland friends and family <br />And their dearest wish is to return to stay.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-another-land-their-hearts-belong/
