Patience And Perseverance Poem by Edward Iacona

PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE

Edward Iacona


Within the carillon of life
Romance can always chime
Music can start within the hear
And it knows no age or time.

Romantic lyrics become reborn
I recall them without resistance.
For us the problem is not the songs
Our challenge is one of distance.

We're connected for years by the Internet
And, one might find this quite quizzical.
Our love has rooted and grown because
We learned that truest love is not all physical.

We have fallen in love completely
And we want a blissful co-existence.
But, to form our loving union she will
Need a visa and we both persistence.

She will need a K-1 visa
And, it throws us for a loop
As we wade through a big bowlful
Of governmental alphabet soup.

The process isn't so simple
On this point I am not vapid
No matter what help is employed
Getting a K-1 visa is really not rapid.

Forms completed and documents compiled
For the USCIS and then for the Department of State
And, while all our submissions are scrutinized
For months we wait...hope...and anticipate.

Then a medical and a meeting in Moscow
We pray for a good judgment of fate.
As we think and dream of the waited day
We meet again at an airport gate.




For Alla