Rewind —a Villanelle

by Desiree Young
Poetry
I wonder what goes through your mind
When you say the things you say.
You never stop to pause or rewind.
Are you really as tactless as I find?
Your words do not logically relay.
I wonder what goes through your mind.
When she needs some of your time,
You can’t ever make her day.
You never stop to pause or rewind.
So often you are selfish and blind
To the fragile person behind her ways.
I wonder what goes through your mind.
Within that daily confine
Your eyes they always stray.
You never stop to pause or rewind.
It seems your once devoted heart she cannot find
A question: Why does she continue to stay?
I wonder what goes through your mind
Because you never stop to pause or rewind.

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