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Villanelle: Don'T Tell Me You Wouldn'T Your Back-Aching Life Now Forsake

Villanelle : Don't tell me you wouldn't your back-aching life now forsake Don't tell me you wouldn't your back-aching life now forsake Not knowing the interminable pleasures of the dark Unknown When just then Life will beckon you back with a hopeful break How many can say his life he wouldn't want to once again re-make To cast it all over again with others retrieve lost chances be alone Don't tell me you wouldn't your back-aching life now forsake The more you try the more you mire yourself unable to wake Till old you get and yet older stay alone your children want you gone When just then Life will beckon you back with a hopeful break No baby sucks at the nipple if not out of habit or for boredom's sake The role of the dividing cell not out of ennui goes on till full-blown Don't tell me you wouldn't your back-aching life now forsake Some men know why the Whole Thing-in-Itself must not us wake To the point where we can see the design behind the curtain sewn When just then Life will beckon you back with a hopeful break Aren't we all so damned occupied with a measely wage to make None will hardly stop to think why the rat-race turns us care-worn Don't tell me you wouldn't your burdensome life now forsake When just then Life will beckon you back with a hopeful break © T. Wignesan - Paris, October 23, 2018

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