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By Sonia Heidi UnruhPublished 10 months ago • Updated 10 months ago • 1 min read
Honorable Mention in Villanelle of Regret Challenge

I will never cease to plead

For you to take another way.

Why do you never heed?

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

Could you not just let me lead?

How could I let you stray?

I will never cease to plead

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

But my voice has never carried

You've already turned away

Why do you never heed?

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

Even in dreams I don't succeed

Silent screams fade dead away

Yet I never cease to plead

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

I can only watch you bleed

And grow cold where you lay

Because you never heed

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

Never will I be freed

From the reliving of that day

I can never cease to plead

Why did you never heed?

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About the Creator

Sonia Heidi Unruh

I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.

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    Written by Sonia Heidi Unruh