Before and After

A Poem by Zach Lape

Dabbling in Latin for a before and after poem.

Ante(Before)

Withering away... My disarrayed thoughts drifting from why, to will I ever find my love. My heart grew cold, frigidium, as faded as my body felt emaciated. Time dragged on, tardus, unmoving, painstakingly still. I longed, I yearned, ambitiosum, reaching out to the dismal world I'd learned to despise, to despicias. Truly believing I would forever remain unloved, my heart never to be taken, my soul never to be whole. I would remain alone... Solus.

Post(After)

My faded vision, emblazoned when I saw, this beauty with eyes of sucinum,
her intelligence and passion, left me in awe,
my heart warming from frigidium,

My soul lifted from its wretched abyssus,
Enuntiato concitata, awake from solus,

Our love seemed to expand, as lightning in the sky,
a tempestatem, she my thunder raging,
hoping it always to be just her and I,
sharing solitude, truly amazing,

ephemeral it was, before we began to love,
amare for each other, never another,
my feelings not imagined thereof,

my life now complete, better now than then,
never to feel solus again,
my dismal feelings gone, perfectionem,
no chasm, no remorse, no pain,

My ambitiosum fulfilled,
my despicias erased,
each day always thrilled,
to see, to feel, to taste

Lauren, you are radii meo sol, percussione in arca, alia causa est spiro. From my chasm I've been lifted, with your love I've been gifted, the most incredibile girl I know. I couldn't imagine one secundus without you, a moment without your osculum. I'll see you soon, mis amare, mis perfectionem, but until then remember....

usque ad mortem, I will always love you,
replacing my solus, you will stay,
my emaciated hand, now holding yours,
semper vestrum, never going away.

© 2013 Zach Lape

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Lauren N. Rodriguez

Not your favorite?! I am so glad that I've been able to read these again, they're works of art Zach; I really love this poem, I forgot how much Latin had gone into this one...makes for perfect dramatic emphasis of things...it's perfect:).