Like Dante [English]-updated

Like Dante

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

Ché la dritta via era smarrita

 [Inferno, Canto I ]

In the middle of our life journey

I found myself

Lost

In a forest dark

Away from the straight path

And

So it is

Like Dante I wander

Through a forest dark

In search of my beginnings

Fearful of my end

My Immortality

Too

Weighs heavily on me

If a soul I once did own

Lost again

In Faith’s delusion

Unseen in Reason’s light

Prayers of yesterday

Beads and litanies

Empty incantations

Whispers of hope

Silent markers of despair

Echoes of fears deep

And

Unrelenting

Haunt the shadows surrounding me

Like Dante

In the middle of this my life journey

I wander

Lost and unknowing

No light to guide the way

Through a forest wild and savage

Hidden darkly from the day