VALENTINE EVE dedicated to all those single people out there gritting their teeth

        Valentine Eve

    The day of love, it looms on the horizon now

    Teasing me with it's rose and balloon 

    And teddy bear

    The memories of those sweet, sweet days

    And magical nights of wine and candle

    Long slow dances and kisses

    That promised love unending

    But ended all the same

    Forever and a day, you said

    And I agreed and wrote it down

    In my book of remembrance

    And saved it with the cards and hearts

    And pressed flowers that I would

    Not have sold for gold

    Valentine's Day, unfunny, unsweet

    Unlovely, unlooked forward to

    Looming on the horizon now.....

    The worst day of the year

    For those with shattered hearts.

    ©by Voo

    Feb 13, 2005

 9:28 p.m.

OF MONSTERS AND FEELINGS a collab with Nick Nguyen

Of Monsters and Feelings

Long days passed

As I rested 

My pounding head

On my cold hands

Reflecting 

A memory

Now like 

A shattered 

Glass mirror.

It started with

A heartbeat

Rising ever

So slightly

Next came pain

Like hot needles

Protruding quickly

Through my skin

And a dull pain 

In my stomach

Ruining all my nights.

With the realization came the terror

And the terror turned to worse

Worse than any word so spoken

In conversation or in verse.

I had never known such anguish

Such despair or numbing fear

I couldn't dream of an existence
Without your presence living here.

All my feelings became monsters

Feelings once I loved to feel

They made me cry out in my anguish

They did me harm and made me ill.

But love's a healer

And I still need you

As I watch the pouring rain

Come and put your hands on my heart

Come and make me feel again.

Written By Nick Nguyen

and Voo

(c) Copyright Nicholas Nguyen 2019

In Collaboration with Voo