My poem in the villanelle style:
All things will pass, the rocks are here to stay --
The atoms from the perished stars compressed,
They witness things that come and go away.
The blossoms of the past are just their dust today.
Breathe out, lean against them, rest --
All things will pass, the rocks are here to stay,
The mountains that add tears to clay,
They keep the weight that trickled off your chest.
They witness things that come and go away,
For eons, spinning inside the Milky Way,
They know one single truth the best:
All things will pass, the rocks are here to stay.
Watching the forms appear and then decay,
They know there's an end to every quest--
They witness things that come and go away.
So, try, however hard you may,
You will not change what they have long professed:
All things will pass, the rocks are here to stay.
They witness things that come and go away.
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