Duet on Flight

Duet on Flight


Have you ever seen two knotted balloons fly,
Ignorance of the unwitting bystander?
Give no lies nor tall tales of their long-lost cry.

You have heard Man's anguished scream and painful sigh
But still insistently imposed your desire.
Have you ever seen two knotted balloons fly?

They soar overhead across the stunning sky
On their terminal flight from sky skirt to skirt.
Give no lies nor tall tales of their long-lost cry.

Their scourged screams and mute shrieks of 'Love run dry'
Reverberate in a chorus of cursed hymns.
Have you ever seen two knotted balloons fly?

While your absconding air ends their futile try
And they plunge to the empty abyss of loss,
Give no lies or tall tales of their long-lost cry.

But still into your hollow vows, we buy
In vain of hope and some-time-soon belonging.
Have You ever seen two knotted balloons fly?
Give no lies or tall tales of their long-lost cry.

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Used the villanelle found Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a model