A Room With A View

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A Room With A View •

O Mio Babbino Caro • Kiri Te Kanawa

Venice 1825

She had seen him
only for fleeting moments.
Yet she knew he was hers
only hers.

A chance meeting at dinner
and again in Saint Marks Square.
Midst the pigeons
too many to count.

She was remiss to feign a vapor
Pretending to fall
yet he picked
her up like a feather
and the ice
melted between them.
Under the heat of their passion.

He wrote her a lovely aria
just for her
she loved it above all else.
All his love was transcribed
in the heavenly music.

Years and years later
when they had|
grown old together.
and he departed
to the eternal place.

As an old lady
She would spend
the spring mornings
looking out of the same window
where he met her
in the Venice square.

And the music
he wrote for her would
play in her heart.