How Long Does It Take?

 

How Long Does It Take?

How long does it take to stop loving somebody?

How long does it take to stop wanting someone?

How long till it stops feeling like you are homeless

When you've lost that sweet heart that so long felt like home?

How long till the nights stop being eons of time?

And the days are long days that you wish would just end?

How long till it seems that your hopes and your dreams

Didn't die with the love in the eyes of your friend?

How long till the hurt doesn't hurt anymore?

For you no longer feel and you no longer care

And the sorrow and wrath and the pain makes a path

To the darkness that grabs you when there's nobody there?

I don't know all these answers, I cannot comprehend

What the world and it's schemes do to a woman and man

I have tried to decipher, I have tried to make sense

How one soul becomes two when one soul builds a fence.

Why can we not perceive when the devil comes creeping?

Why can we not see how he delights in love's death?

Why do we fight with each other, our true loves, our lovers

Instead of fighting that devil with our last living breath?

How long, oh my Lord, will this battle keep raging?

How long till the sun shines and never goes dark?

How long till we know we can trust one another

And not just trust one another to break each other's heart?

I have crawled back into my old shell of heartache

Where there is no sunshine and no drop of rain

Down to the desert of despaired desolation

Where the fantasy is pleasure and reality's pain.  

How long will it be till I feel whole again?

How long till the world seems a safe place to live?

How long till I've taken all my soul can take

And my soul is refilled and has more love to give?

I do not love the nights now

 I do not love the day

The nights when our hearts would softly whisper 

 And love would come to play.

I do not love the dawning

 The joy that day would bring

I cannot hear the music now

I can't make my heart sing.

How long does it take to live again 

And for a human heart to heal?

How long till those fantasies all fade away

Replaced by something real?

If no answer comes for me and no counsellor I find

If no angel comes down with a miracle and sign

If I was just foolish, perceiving no end or start

May all my records show that I lived even though

And I loved with all of my heart.

©By Voo Shining Stone

May 2020

(written in a dream

and found today scribbled

on a piece of tear stained paper)

In memory of

someone I loved and always will

❤️

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Like A Breath

 

Like A Breath

You're like a shadow

No one can see

Nobody knows you're there

No one but me.

You're like a falling star

Falling in dark

Waiting to catch fire

But finding no spark.

You're like a hunger

With no one to bite

Holding to nothing

But still holding tight.

You're like a grapevine

With no fruit on the vine

Needing planting and caring

In a garden like mine.

And I'm like a seer

That walks past you and sees

The heat in your coldness

The warmth in the breeze.

 I'm like a doctor

That walks through your hell

Picks up your pieces

Wants you to be well.

And I'm like a lover

That your heart forsakes

A giver with passion

That your heart never takes.

And we pass and we pass

In the dark and the dawn

The shadow and seer

Moving onward and on.

You're a mist and a vapor

Like a soul never been

But to me you're the sweet air

That I long to breathe in.

And I wait for that midnight dark

Or that day without sun

When the shadow and seer

Like a breath, become one.

©by Voo Shining Stone

April 19, 2021

10:31 p.m.

 

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In The Moonlight Deep

The Visitors by Jana Mashonee 

the song that inspired the write..........

In The Moonlight Deep

I'm dancing in the moonlight deep

I'm dancing in the sun

I'm dancing in the mountain keep

That holds no heart but one.

Like echoes from another time

I sing my songs of joy

And hunt for treasures with the tools

My heart finds to employ.

The eagle watches silently

The deer observes my dance

The brown wren seeks to settle near

But doesn't take the chance.

I bathe in waters crystal clear

And purify my self

Lie in the smoke of sweet grass scent

Till there is nothing left.

I speak the words of holy men

I pray my fathers' chants

I see the visions Spirit sends

When I stand up and dance.

And I'm dancing at the rainbow's end

I'm dancing in the streams

I'm dancing on the tall green hills,

In the valleys of my dreams.

Like Turtle crawls in perseverance

And Wolf howls in the night

I laugh at Trickster's fun and games

And keep out of his sight.

And on I go through falling rain,

In morning's sparkling dew

Into the haunted realms of men

Until I find you.

(If you are Shadow,

I am Light

But I crave you

Like Day craves Night.

In Warrior Dance

And ancient tongue

I'll dance to arms

Where I belong.)

An empty heart compels me go

Though I keep it hidden well

And feet of longing carry me

To the place no man can tell.

And I'm dancing in the twilight blue

I'm dancing in the sky

I'll dance until the vow is kept

Upon the day I die.

I'm dancing in the midnight dark

I'm dancing in the embers

Of a fire that burned so long ago

Not a living soul remembers.

But I recall it when I dance

And all the secrets keep

To give back to the One Who Waits

There in the moonlight deep.

©by Voo

April 4, 09

6:41 p.m.