The Child In The Woods

a villanelle, in which the rhyme scheme is ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

I have loved and I have lost

….and now all is gone.

And as memories resurface, a sea of nothingness rolling by is a shattered dream.

You were never mine and I felt crossed

As I was never yours. I was alone with my thoughts; insanity in the darkness but with sanity at dawn.

And nothing is greater than your first; left like a child in the woods it would seem.

I love you and now I pay the cost

I feel you are a loving con

but it’s you I want forever, it may seem

I have loved and I have lost

it seems yor love was off then on

but only women can dream hoping on your love like a moonbeam.

I have loved and I have lost.

…..and now all is gone.

Nothing but a scattered fragment of some lonely dream.

In my bed I’ve turned and tossed and dreamed of your face as the moon shone with a gleam.

And my heart is seemed had turned to frost

I wait for daylight in your loving sun rayed beam

You’re something I would always get mad at; something I’d never forgive but yet redeem.