Essays That Got Me into Uni: A Villanelle (For an engineer that has no concept of what a villanelle is)

What makes your body yours?

Undeniably, despite circumstance?

Is there anything that makes you different from peers?

Is it the mind, that shares

your thoughts and allows for romance

Or lips, that initiate such affairs

Maybe your eyes, as they never get old

and  they expose your soul, just a glance

of your feelings and self to behold

Is it the hands for their ability to hold

Or the feet that carry you as you dance

and sway across the floor

Perhaps it’s what you don’t want to divulge

Or even what one totes in one’s pants

The reasons for that, I will withhold

I think it must be the voice; I’m sure

this is the only thing that isn’t there by chance

All that you want to be and do, no matter how bold

Is held within your vocal folds