Echo for Narcissus: A Villanelle
Can love be wrong that sets your soul alight?
Pale reflection froze you in the mirror:
Narcissus comes undone for your delight.
’Twas a god’s curse ensnared my heart’s true sight,
that’s how she bade him stay all day to hear her:
Is love so wrong that sets your soul alight?
Let the reflection in your eyes take flight;
Trapped in the glass, find your desires freer:
Narcissus comes undone for your delight.
How yearning burns up all your appetite
and leeches every color, crystal clear:
Can love be wrong that sets your soul alight?
This passion reignites with every slight
each switch a stitch to bind with watery fear:
Narcissus comes undone for your delight.
His life now sapped away to reunite
heart & flesh in strange new hemisphere:
Can love be wrong that sets your soul alight?
Narcissus came undone for your delight.
-Rebbekah Vega-Romero
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Rebbekah Vega Romero
Rebbekah Vega Romero (she/her) is an Afro-Latina-Jewish performer/scribe & NYC native. Typewriter poet & creator of Lace/Love/Letters (Etsy). Rebbekah hopes her art inspires other mixed-race girls to share their magic. @RebbekahVR on social
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Wooohooooo congratulations on your honourable mention! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Your language is luminous, every line feels like it echoes into eternity.
Beautiful 🤍
What a tremendous story. A theme as old as life itself is perfectly sang in such beautiful words. You are a pan and I will follow your tunes into the literary woods