719 : I Awoke One Day

dVerse had the prompt ‘repetition’, 

with a villanelle as a possible form.  

Ok, here’s a villanelle.
Pity I missed the cut-off by four hours.

I awoke one day

I awoke one day and you were not there

The world, once warm, was now cold and bleak

You’d gone away and I knew not where.

The emptiness overwhelmed, hard to bear

I framed some words but couldn’t speak

When I awoke one day and you were not there

It was natural, I suppose, to feel despair

But it hung upon me, like a leaden sheet:

You’d gone away and I knew not where.

Without your laughter to fill the air

Life was dull, no longer sweet,

When I awoke one day and you were not there

The table now has an empty chair

And meals have lost their sweet mystique.

You’ve gone away and I know not where.

We instinctively feel life should be fair

But the evidence for that is rather weak.

I awoke one day and you were not there

You’d gone away and I knew not where.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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