Villanelle

Reality falls away

While my nose disappears into a book

I wish that I could stay

The world is nothing but gray

Nothingness, emotionless crooks

Reality falls away

When all goes astray

And everything has me shook

I wish that I could stay

But how can I stay

Forever in a nook

Reality falls away

But the truth wants to outweigh

Fiction I mistook

I wish that I could stay

But at the end of the day

A story one must not overlook

Even if reality falls away

And I so wish that I could stay