"In Pursuit of Legacy"
Angelica Dator
The beauty within the crumble
Is the best part of any perceived disaster
From the ruins in Athens
To the grandest of sculptures
Residing in famed Italian cities
Like Florence
Milan or Venice
I feel the growth
Within each etch or carving
I feel the change
These distant echoes
Or marks of a past time
Allude to the start of
The prominence of things
Like that which of art
The beauty of self-expression
Carefully crafted artistic creation
The prominence of life
Nothing feels better than
Leaving your mark on the world
A replica of a part of yourself
Whether it may be
An expression of who you are
Or how you felt
At the time of you starting
Something new
After all these years
I think I finally understand
To some extent
The feeling of going back
To other times
Perhaps simpler times
Of wanting to go back
To such idealized times
There’s just something about
Wanting to seek to do something
That’s not been done before
To feel an inner state of euphoria
To feel that true peak of emotion
Is what might very much well be
Ultimately worth living for
Angelica Dator
Angelica Dator
Angelica Dator is an undergraduate student majoring in English with a Professional Writing Concentration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the Layout Editor for the UNLV Scarlet & Gray Free Press, where she works on the layout for the weekly print editions of the student newspaper and also contributes in writing articles. She has a natural passion for writing and creative endeavors, and simply delights in viewing the writing craft as being of both art and life.