🦚🧞‍♀️A Villanelle – Neighbourhood 🧞‍♀️🦚

Written by Carolyn Crossley VixenOfVerse

#villanelle #poetry #french

Grief weaves its way into your blood.
It exists in each and every heartbeat
It becomes your neighbourhood.

The place where pain lives and will thud
Into your mind, sitting on the back seat,
Grief weaves its way into your blood.

You loved so much - it's understood,
That grief lives within, you can't cheat,
It becomes your neighbourhood.

So embrace it - for your own good.
Don't rant against it; don't even bleat,
Grief weaves its way into your blood.

Cry your tears, but don't let them flood
Your life away, walk on your own feet,
It becomes your neighbourhood.

Acceptance will be your lifeblood,
Self care will make you complete.
Grief weaves its way into your blood.
It becomes your neighbourhood.

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