Collected Poems

Villanelle:  All Through the Night

I cannot fall asleep all through the night,

Our love affair is finished, this I know;

But memories of you I cannot fight.

The heart will not be ruled by logic’s might.

I thought it would be easy to let go,

Then found I could not sleep all through the night.

I hope to wake with joy and greet sun light.

Time eases pain, but healing is so slow—

It’s memories of you I cannot fight.

I wonder how you are, far from my sight.

In love again perhaps, with a new beau?

And do you sleep with him all through the night?

By day, I wear the mask that hides my plight,

But night time brings the demon horror show

And memories of you I cannot fight.

Each night I wish that I could now rewrite

Our story, of the love I did forego;

I cannot fall asleep all through the night,

These memories of you I cannot fight.

©knightwriter, September 7, 2012