TO MY CHILDREN

Your heartbeat changed the rhythm of my world
the moment it echoed inside my womb.
No other music could be more treasured

after the sweetness of the Eternal Word.
Like an enchantment dispelling all gloom,
your heartbeat changed the rhythm of my world.

What joys, what dreams your little heart unfurled
in my own, swelling to give love more room.
No other music could be more treasured

than life’s harmony playing to be heard
from Nothing to Time beneath Heaven’s Dome.
Your heartbeat changed the rhythm of my world.

My heart beats not for myself alone. Curled
in my arms, sleep peacefully in my bosom.
No other music could be more treasured

than the joint beating of our hearts as we whirled
to a berceuse speaking of love abloom.
Your heartbeat changed the rhythm of my world.
No other music could be more treasured.

 

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For Dverse Poets’ Form for All – the Villanelle

 

 

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