arches and domes dominate the square
----------Sunday morning in Venice
-----------------day after festival party
-----------------------streets littered
-----------------------------cups, bottles, cans
----------crowds of tourists create chaos
heat rises off cobblestones
----------sun glances off the cathedral
-----------------as we join line to enter
------------------------sanctuary
cool stillness envelopes us
----------notes from the organ lead on
-----------------sitting in the back we wait and marvel
------------------------who built this place?
choir sings – I know this song – “Ubi Caritas”
----------“Where charity and love are
-----------------God is there”
harmonies echo the huge expanse of arches and domes creating
-----------a sense of restoration
-----------------whoever built this place
-----------------------built it for
this…
filled with beauty, we leave to join the
hot
chaos
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