The Journey

The Journey

From life's journey I have no good advice to share,
though wisdom is implied by age,
to know myself is all I dare.

My memories of the ride are my own to bear,
I write them down upon the page,
from life's journey I have no good advice to share.

Some stops along the way give joy, some despair,
and others may enrage,
to know myself is all I dare.

Thinking only of the destination, I become aware
of a person in a cage,
from life's journey I have no good advice to share.

Bound by love of things I must beware,
decide when to disengage,
to know myself is all I dare.

I write today on tomorrow's page
and solemnly declare,
from life's journey I have no good advice to share,
to know myself is all I dare.

19 lines
Form: Villanelle
A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme:
aba aba aba aba aba abaa.

The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order [as the third line of each stanza] throughout the
poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).