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For Lorraine...A Villanelle

Lorraine exits outside the realm of life

But in my heart she always has a home

Her choice to stop the demon cost a price

 

Her mind became a circus too insane

Believing visions of religious ilk

Lorraine exits outside the realm of life

 

Now she’s at peace, I miss her but not sad

She stopped the madness, stopped the voices track

Her choice to stop the demon cost a price

 

I wonder what she would have grown to be?

Would she have overcome the chains that bound?

Lorraine exits outside the realm of life

 

My sister was my mentor, for a while

Until the life she knew lost all control

Her choice to stop the demon cost a price

 

And may she rest with knowledge we’re ok

The ones she left behind that fateful day

Lorraine exits outside the realm of life

Her choice to stop the demon cost a price

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Written by
marlene-dunham-1
American
Published
Feb 20, 2010
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19·152
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©2010 Marlene Dunham

In Memory of My Sister Lorraine on what would have been her 61st Birthday. The last Birthday she celebrated was her 18th. 2/22/1967

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