These fools obsessed with lies of immortality

Bleed life into their own hands painting the scythe red.

So starts the war between heaven and reality.



They are the souls bathed in blind morality.

Impostures of their own virtues. Their integrity, like skin, is shed.

These fools obsessed with lies of immortality,



Would reach for agony of hell, instead of the truth of vitality.

Desire for the higher dwelling means they all would have lovingly bled

to start the war between heaven and reality.



And their eyes filled with lies, lose all meaning of sensuality

Rather living in shadow, blind as the boulevard continues ahead.

These fools obsessed with lies of immortality,



Attempt to bleed actuality from the sky, a logical fatality.

From the tear of the world's blue skin, the eye of truth stared from death's head.


To stare at the fools obsessed with lies of immortality,


And starts the war between heaven and reality

04/20/2006

Author's Note: Had to write a villanelle for class, they're going to hate it, I know, but I don't care.

Posted on 04/20/2006
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