Still playing with the Villanelle - a tricky form that makes you work hard....
Villanelle based on a
line read somewhere
By nature I am loathe to speak
Yet here I stand before a crowd:
Some common steroids
produce a freak.
My words I know seem largely weak;
But yet, I need to say out loud
(Though always still I’m loathe to speak)
That using drugs for body tweaks
(However downstream well-endowed)
Means steroids, later,
produce a freak.
You athletes know I don’t speak Greek,
Your heads before my words are bowed,
(By nature meek, I’m loathe to speak.)
Your future’s shot, your outlook’s bleak,
Though prior to your fall you’re proud:
Some common steroids will
produce a freak.
The wages of your drugs you’ll wreak,
Old age will see your body cowed.
By nature I am loathe to speak:
Some common steroids
produce a freak.
