Love and Cellophane

While I try to love you wrapped in cellophane
You package your transparent passion too
Ecstasy is a pleasure so difficult to contain

My heart beats hard with images in my brain
As I make those romantic gestures to you
While I try to love you wrapped in cellophane

It seems that my efforts are all in vain
Though sensual excitement comes through
Ecstasy is a pleasure so difficult to contain

My soul has a mind that I can never explain
Our hearts forever search for love that's true
While I try to love you wrapped in cellophane

If we are so protected why do we feel pain?
Is love meant to be confined, or shared by two?
Ecstasy is a pleasure so difficult to contain

Preserving is fruitful, yet goes against the grain
Of the natural laws that are nothing new
While I try to love you wrapped in cellophane
Ecstasy is a pleasure so difficult to contain

This villanelle was inspired by lost love
A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English-language poetry in the 1800s from the imitation of French models.[1] A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain. [2