unnamed villanelle

My letters to you burn as they are penned
I fear the look of sorrow in your eyes
There is no farewell message I can send

I know the laws that I have fought to bend
The bitter truth is hidden in my lies
My letters to you burn as they are penned

My hands to help I can no longer lend
My smiles cloak me with a desperate guise
There is no farewell message I can send

For at the start I prophesied the end
A future I saw written in the skies
My letters to you burn as they are penned

This is a wound too deep for me to mend
For we did fall in our attempts to rise
My letters to you burn as they are penned
There is no farewell message I can send

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