Him

(Published in Redwood Writers Phases collection)

His birth family has found him
They hail from Colombia

All 154 of them

He is my beloved son
Raised with love from birth
His birth family has found him

I give him space

To embrace his familia
All 154 of them

I treasure him
Our family of four
His birth family has found him

They treasure his attention
Call him each day
All 154 of them

We are his destiny
They are his birthright
His birth family has found him
All 154 of them

AUTHOR’S NOTE

A Villanelle poem – 5 three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. The two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain.

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