My Existence

My Existence

Where is the ending of this existence?
Life creates it’s own wandering path way.
Is there reason for prolonged persistence?

Looking at my arrival’s resistance,
breath’s reluctance impresses as foreplay.
Where is the ending of this existence?

At the commencing of co-existence,
there was desire to keep others at bay.
Is there reason for prolonged persistence?

Still running the race, I see the distance,
when rounding the corner; I’ve come halfway.
Where is the ending of this existence?

Slower steps now striding for subsistence,
fewer risks taken – less run and more sway.
Is there reason for prolonged persistence?

Here in the last days, I need assistance.
Umbrage rages in the face of decay.
Where is the ending of this existence?
Is there reason for prolonged persistence?

Villanelle
A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa. The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).