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What Your Meaning Is

(Villanelle #2)

By Wil C. Fry, Sept. 11, 2000, 01:30

Copyright © 2000 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.


Around and around your words seem to go
My delicate ears will faint at the sound
What your meaning is, man will never know

Sometimes, I think your talk is just for show
Conversations with endings never found
Around forever, your words seem to go

You don’t let breathing interrupt your flow
As your stories go on with leaps and bounds
What your meaning is, man will never know

The beating of my heart begins to slow
As you talk of people, events and towns
Around and around your words seem to go

Still talking you’ll be, in your home below
Oh, the stories you’ll tell as you’re dragged down
What you’re meaning is, we will never know

Burning up as flames of hell start to glow
All sinners with you hear your words resound
Around and around your words seem to go
What your meaning is, man will never know



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