Venezia Mio Amore!

It was some time in the night
I was walking alone,
high above in the clear sky
the moon shown like a
distant hope for a whine.

Temporal moments slipped by
and an exotic squall filled the
complacency of that placid night,
like slaying of a soul
with a blunt butcher's knife.

My insights drenched with the
deadness of the next instant
my senses went numb and
I shut my eyes and ran until
I hit a tree of an old time.

Slowly as I opened my eyes
and my sight became clear
I saw a donna clad in rags
scrunched tightly near me
humming a low tune of eternity

I touched her hair with my
shivering hands and bent a little
and observed her closely,
she lifted her head and glanced at me
with those deep blue watery eyes.

Suddenly, I felt pain running inside
and last I remember was her hands
closing my eyes and a whisper
which reverberated a myriad times
"I am ..Venezia
please come to me"
please come to me..

I felt my soul lifting
and I remembered nothing
as I went into an eternal rest
lying in the lap of Venezia
bidding adieu to this life.