"Pleading For Warm Light"
Alone in this cold, lonely night
I look at the dim, silver moon
Pleading for more warm light
Why are the stars looking bright?
Aren't some of them long gone?
Alone in this cold, lonely night
So cold, I held my jacket tight
At this rate I'll be frozen soon
Pleading for more warm light
Hands moving, as if wanting to write
Maybe, it's seeking for a bit of boon?
Alone in this cold, lonely night
This feeling, it doesn't feels right
I search and search but find none
Pleading for more warm light
Why are the clouds covering my sight?
This emptiness is making me want to run
Alone in this cold, lonely night
Pleading for more warm light
What is a Villanelle?
A villanelle (also known as villanesque) is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form. The word derives from Latin, then Italian, and is related to the initial subject of the form being the pastoral.