Katherine Braithwaite Poet Villanelle

Bereft

Sometimes sunshine  makes us feel bereft
Rain and shadowed clouds would suit  our mood
When we are the warp without the weft

As if we are the  pen and no ink’s left
As if we hunger yet there is no food
Sometimes sunshine  makes us feel bereft

Our mind slows down and all we do is drift
Evil thoughts  into the soul intrude
Like we are the warp without the weft

Let the eye and all its muscles rest
With wider focus   we may cease to brood
Sometimes sunshine  makes us feel bereft

Do not try with will power nor it test
Relaxation brings  back knowledge of the good
We take it in  like babies at the breast

We must  not test the will but let it go
Trust the ocean and eternal flow
Sometimes sunshine  makes us feel bereft
Sometimes sunshine brings its golden  gifts

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