Villanelle

Villanelle The pursuit of what is difficult is right To pass the spring and curvature of hours. Wake and work the passing of the night Though others say men ought to take delight In easy pleasure dancing in the flowers. The pursuit of what is difficult is right. While many think that money reigns, despite It having, in the coming grave , no power. Wake and work the passing of the night. And to lovers who, enveloped in sleeps might Do not keep the lessons of the hours The pursuit of what is difficult is right. And me, who wasted in my somber plight The time that trickled through the glass of powers, Now wakes and works the passing of the night. The pursuit of what is difficult is right. Wake and work the passing of the night. Carl Estrin