Villanelle based on a line read somewhere

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.