PRAYER

(a villanelle)
from Jade-Pandora's
DUP's NaPoWriMo 2016 competition


Sweet muse, bestow your graceful words on me.
Give them the sounds that fill her heart with joy
That she you sent would find my love worthy.

My songs once filled my life and set me free,
But long has life sought to those songs destroy.
Sweet muse, bestow your graceful words on me.

An ill tuned gong my verse appears to be,
And hers like crystal dawning mists employ,
That she you sent would find my love worthy?

But as I make her smile, my words I see,
Become, as she, pure heaven’s true envoy.
Sweet muse, bestow your graceful words on me.

And still I’d have her feel my full degree,
Each line give pleasure to this cute tomboy,
That she you sent would find my love worthy.

So in my every phrase I hope that she
Finds little gifts I leave and she enjoy.
Sweet muse, bestow your graceful words on me
That she you sent would find my love worthy.