Dark Waters

DARK WATERS

Never will I go for a swim,
The pond so dark and still,
For me that task too grim.

I'm afraid thanks to Tim,
A child's bet for a dollar bill,
Never will I go for a swim.

Climb the tree and out to the limb,
Looking down just makes me ill,
For me that task too grim.

Let me climb down I begged him,
Just let me go back over the hill,
Never will I go for a swim.

Now it was sink or swim,
Someone pushed me against my will,
For me that task too grim.

Under dark waters my sight was dim,
I pushed to the surface, this was not a thrill,
Never will I go for a swim,
For me that task too grim.


(this is a Villanelle poetry form. The rhyming scheme is: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa. The 1st line of the 1st stanza is repeated as the 3rd line of the 2nd stanza, and 3rd line of the 4th stanza. The 3rd line of the 1st stanza is repeated as the 3rd line of the 3rd stanza and 3rd line of the 5th stanza. The quatrain stanza: line 3 is the 1st line of the 1st stanza. Line 4 of the quatrain is the 3rd line of the 1st stanza).