For my college Lit. class we had to write a villanelle poem and this was born out of my inability to find out what it was that would work for it. Please don't be too harsh. I wrote it in less than a hour.

I Look and See

I look around me

The people seem so sad

This is the world I see.

What people are to be.

Which to choose, good or bad?

I look around me.

From the land to the sea.

Everyone can meet a lying cad.

This is the world I see.

From the flower to the bumble bee,

I wish for a world that's glad.

I look around me.

A child smiling in glee.

There's no way it's just a passing fad.

This is the world I see.

Like a tall glass of Sunny-D.

My dreams, as beautiful as a precious lily pad.

I look around me.

This is the world I see.