I Left My Heart in Italy

An ode to ‘La Dolce Vita’

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I needed an escape,
a refuge, and a retreat.
I didn’t know what to do
because I felt incomplete.

I survived COVID,
a major surgery, and tremendous heartache,
but it was with the death of my father
when I felt my life quake.