Villanelle: Live With the Borrowed Lives Made By Your Own Mistakes
Villanelle: Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
A stranger to your stricken selves a tenant in your body
Disown not the erred life battered by the body’s quakes
The life you can have is not the life no one else makes
The tortoise shell you unwanted haul a life-long threnody
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Child of wanton self-boosting lust the pounding of stakes
Lost in the blind rubbing spasms slime of airs bloody
Disown not the erred life battered by the body’s quakes
Time enough to turn the leaf over sleepless in bleach wakes
A thousand regrets come thousand morrows heal nobody
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Let pity not spew and drivel at the sight of lascivious rakes
You are not the Guardian of the errant world’s sorry body
Disown not the erred life battered by the body’s quakes
Unscathed lives live imagined only in the minds of fakes
Life scars with bloody blisters the undersides in everybody
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Disown not the erred life battered by the body’s quakes
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2014
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