Villanelle: If You Scoff At the World We Live In

Villanelle : If you scoff at the world we live in If you scoff at the world we live in You’ll slip and fall and break your neck Better bury your bones in between Seek not our galaxy to win For myriads luminous beck If you scoff at the world we live in Each in his solipsistic bin Twists and turns and rots without break Better bury your bones in between What life there is has locked us within With no way out but by mistake If you scoff at the world we live in Even safe eutopias spin On their dreamers’ axes breakneck Better bury your bones in between Ask not if life’s but wanton sin The moon also rises by daybreak If you scoff at the world we live in Better bury your bones in between © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013