Questions Inspired By Lost Love and Bobby Womack

 

Questions Inspired By Lost Love

And Bobby Womack

Where do we go from here

Now that our love has gone?

How do our feet dance their slow dance

Now that they're walking alone?

When do we get to smile again?

Our smiles disappeared when we frowned

How do we stay above water

Now that the passion has drowned?

Why did our love die in vain

After living so sweetly in dreams?

Why did the promise get broken so quickly

When we found nothing was what it seems?

How do you mend what is broken?

Can the broken rise up and be healed?

How does a soul resume dreaming?

When you find only nightmares are real?

I don't know, my love, where you are tonight

And all these things, my heart needs to know

I'm lost and I'm going right out of my mind

Because it's the only place I know to go.

©by Voo Shining Stone

9/2020

and more Bobby Womack

    

 

If I Had To Choose my Favorite Song...this is IT

by Bill Withers

I grew up listening to this song over and over

and still do. Put it on loop and let the words

and music carry you away. Peace

Calling Your Name

Calling Your Name

(I stood alone calling your name

The clouds hid the sunlight and made way for the rain

Your name echoed back off the hills unto me

And my sad lonely shadow was all I could see.)

I'd sought you all of my life

Since I was but a child

I knew you were out there in the world

Somewhere in the wild.

For my dreams gave me glimpses

That my eyes couldn't see

And I knew that you existed

And were looking for me.

But my life took it's turns

Just as all lives, they do

And it distanced and detoured me

From the finding of you.

I met other lovers

I married and left

Two lovers who broke me

And left me bereft.

And I gave up on love

I gave up on life

For who needs a love

That's imprisoned in strife?

But my dreams never left me

They stayed buried, asleep

Laying stagnant and hidden

In my heart, oh, so deep.

And one day to my surprise

To my shock and my awe

My dreams were revived

By the face that I saw.

And the face was your face

A face I had known

In a dream, in a place

In a world of our own.

Where we walked hand in hand

As we walked through the world

Watching ages pass by us

As our dream lives unfurled.

Oh, and we were so happy

To just be we two

For I knew you loved me

And how much I loved you.

And I was your love
And you were my sweet boy
And our days and our nights
Were filled with pure joy.

But what we didn't know

Till much passage of time

That only in that dream world

Could you really be mine.

Till the Fates co-conspired

With the Heavenly plan

And allowed this sad woman

To once again find that man.

We had always had hope

That someday, and somehow

Our two dreams would collide

In the here and the now.

And they did in the last place

That we ever had thought

Stumbling there upon the one thing

That we always had sought.

What a mystery and joy!

What a sweetness divine

For my heart still was yours

And your heart was still mine.

And our souls meshed together

And our bodies belonged

Just as sure as a melody

With the words of a song.

But what cruel turn of fate

Like the changing of weather

Once again we are parted

And cannot be together.

And I call out your name

Like a prayer on the wind

Wondering how long it will be

Till I'm with you again.

For even a dream 

Will eventually die

And the reflection of your face

Will fade from my eye.

But my heart won't forget

When I take my last breath

That it loves you with a love

That is stronger than death.

 I'm calling your name again now

My sweet boy, my dear

Hoping this time you'll answer

And say Yes love, I'm here.

©By Voo

Oct 7, 2019

12:16 a.m.

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