Postcards from Paradise: Venezia

One place I call a heart-home

Or Paradise, if you will,

Is Venice, Queen of the Sea.

She called her siren song to me the first time

when I was deeply in love with my beloved,

and we explored her charms together.

When I was back to just me,

I feared it was the memory of “us”

that I loved about Venice

and not Venice herself,

so I revisited her alone

with great trepidation.

But no, it was the lady herself

in all her many moods

who had whispered to my heart

and beckoned me back.

Postcards from Paradise.