"Я могу тебя очень ждать"/"I can wait for you very long " Eduard Asadov.

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Images: Mila Gee.
Music: Kevin Macleod, "Laid Back Guitars"Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

"I can wait for you very long " Eduard Asadov.

I can wait for you very long,
My heart and body true to you,
I could stay wide awake each night
Forever and a day…or two.

Let the calendar pages fall
Like the autumn leaves fall away,
All I ask is please let me know
That you truly want me to stay.

I would gladly follow your lead,
Any hardship—an adventure:
Through thickets, summits, winds of sand
Where the Devil will not venture.

I would endure with no complaint
Any obstacle that may trip me,
So long as somewhere on our way,
You won’t suddenly betray me.

I’d share with you all that I have,
All of today and tomorrow,
I’d gladly switch places with you,
If your fate is that of sorrow.

I’d consider it a delight
To ensure your world’s place of bliss,
Wishing only to know for sure,
That you do truly need all this.

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