UNFINISHED the written and spoken word versions

Unfinished

When I, in lonely silent waves

Of sound, surround myself with you

Your face imprinted on my mind,

Your eyes like candles, shining

I hold you there with terror'd fingers

Reaching through dark rain filled clouds

To find the sun of suns.

Upon the night wind in my soul,

You fly to me like driven angels 

Breathing my name in and out

A mantra without end

So far away, the sight of you

Yet near enough to taste

I reach for you, I yearn for you, my hungry heart to hold.

If I could dream, I'd dream you here

Within my empty arms

Your love, a fountain I'd pour out

Upon my barren fields

And I, in turn, like unborn flowers

Would bloom for you forever

Instead, I wither needlessly like a crushed rose on the road.

I met you on a friendless sea

When there was naught before us

But sand and sky and unvoiced hope

And furtive fevered sighs

And then we turned and walked beyond

Where trembling hands might touch

Looking back and looking back and walking ever on.

There is a song my soul would write

And you, it's sweet refrain

Relentless in it's melody

And tears to my eyes, bring

If God should bring you towards me now

I'd run on broken glass

And never turn and never turn but keep my eyes on you.

This void, this chasm, in me now

With each day, wider grows

I can't be whole, I know that now

Because I saw your face

It may never be that you find me

And that sun may never rise

And my life will end, an unfinished song, because I don't have you.

© by Voo

April 16, 20011

1:24 a.m.

                                           my video of me reading this poem
                                                       UNFINISHED