LOST FOR WORDS

She is multilingual and uses this superb talent appropriately.
Talking to her father, she converses in her mother tongue.
In grand restaurants she orders expensive wines in fluent French.
On sun bleached beaches, Spanish will be spoken.
Perfectly accented Italian resonates through designer stores in New York.
Even Latin echoes around the ruins of Rome.
However, with her long term partner, she is virtually speechless, never able to master that
complicated language of love.

 

Originally published: Paragraph Planet