Naples Is More Than Pizza

Neapolitan Novels
Told over 60 Years
May leave you with
Healthy Dose of Tears

Flowers need Water and Sun
Education needs Time and Love
Along with Childhood
Memories, Friends and Fun

A Year Comes, A Year Goes By
People never Fail to Celebrate
By throwing Firecrackers
In the Sky

Beauty is only Skin-Deep
Who says a Poor, Dark girl
Cannot get Riches
And the man of her Dreams

Lotus grows in the Mud
When Lotus is Betrayed
It feels as if She were
Slapped With a Big Thud

The Boys from school
Who attacked Girls with Rocks
Now provide a Shoulder to Cry on
And Cleans her Child's Socks

Education sharpens the Mind
But it Cannot Save a Person
Who Stabbed a Loved one
From Behind

Money buys you Respect
But it cannot give you
Comfort when you are
Away from a loved one,
Whom society failed
To Protect


HBO Series: Scene from "My Brilliant Friend", Post WWII, Naples, Italy