VILLANELLE

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We've only just met and I miss you already—
Distracted, I think of just you, only you.
I track you on surfaces. Where is your beauty?

I waited forever, millennia heady
With longing, skies black and skies blue.
We've only just met and I miss you already.

I've never lost hope in my waiting, my duty,
And it doesn't matter that I can't quite touch you.
I track you on surfaces. Where is your beauty,
What world has it gone to, to shelter its body,
And will it reward me for being so true?
We've only just met and I miss you already.

I feel like a mountain—that huge and that steady—
I feel that my mind is expanded and new.
We've only just met and I miss you already.
I track you on surfaces. Where is your beauty?

after Carlos German Belli