Yours Hopefully
Mar 09, 2018, 01:22 PM
Poem by Michael Rosen
Meine Lieben*
my dears,
from where we are now
but I can’t say how
we have hopes
we have fears.
So send us news
send us a word
as we haven’t heard.
Please send for our brothers
send for our mother.
Nothing more can be said
as this letter may be read
by others.
Dear sisters
from your brothers
between us such a distance
meine Lieben
ambestens**.
I close this letter
hoping with you
tomorrow will be better
meine Lieben
my dears.
*meine Lieben’ (pronounced ‘my-na lee-bn’), meaning ‘my dears’.
**ambestens (pronounced as if in southern British English: ‘um...(rhyming with ‘hum’) bestens’ as if in English it was written ‘bestence’), meaning ‘best wishes’.