Paris is Forever

To know her is to love her

But if you don’t like wine

She will forgive you after all

She has many ways to shine;

Walk her streets lose your way

Especially in the rain

Feel her history see her sights

Get to know her pain;

Find her in her art

Be kind to all her noise

Little girls love the way she swoons

She dances for little boys;

Students scholars monks and more

Gather to teach and learn

Writers try to find the words

That tell of Spring’s return;

Musicians learn about her music

And some will leave their mark

While artists fill their canvases

Along her streets and parks;

Emperors come and prelates go

And kings know of her charms

Revolutions fizzle within her drizzle

Love slumbers in her arms;

Do not ask to know if she is burning

For surely she is not

Rather ask whose hearts are yearning

She knows what they have brought;

Two thousand years and more

She’s lived to tell her tales

Two thousand more will find her

Where magic never fails;

Among the treasures to be found

Along life’s weary way

This lady never lets you down

And she is here to stay.