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Villanelle: For One Life Lived Through Mistakes How Many Defy Death

Villanelle: For one life lived through mistakes how many defy death for Greg Paul For one life lived through mistakes how many defy death For each mistake a new life blooms on the Tree of Life Sibling souls come together to meet the first on last breath If the original course of the first life makes a bee-line to death Then each mistaken life takes off at an angle in equal strife For one life lived through mistakes how many defy death Now each individual’s life line criss-crosses the other’s birth Who’s watching whom in Prentententoonstellung alive Sibling souls come together to meet the first on last breath Spinning shafts of light fissioning out of revolving depth Dense nuclear porcupine quills jutting out on the axis of hive For one life lived through mistakes how many defy death Pairs of eyes stare at image in revolving mirrors out of breath Sandwiched between endless mirrors broken lives connive Sibling souls come together to meet the first on last breath Till the day the one life that never a mistake made myth Will never his image in the mirrors reflected be alone alive For one life lived through mistakes how many defy death Sibling souls come together to meet the first on last breath © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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