FINDING YOU AGAIN .... contains soundtrack music player

These three pieces of music are exquisite and make the reading of the poem like a movie playing in your mind. Read slowly and savor all the nuances and by the end of the poem you should be at the end of the last song if you time it right!!!! It's pure Magic!!!
Depending on how fast or slowly you read, I suggest you let the first song play almost to the end to absorb the nuances and get into the right frame of mind. The third song should take you to the very end of the write. You'll see what I mean....

"Finding You Again"

Where are you, my love?

What sea has taken you to foreign shores

To mountains I cannot traverse, nor valleys 

Will I not see the face again that I adore?

The eyes that shone with love for me at meeting

The heart that beat in rhythm with my own?

The arms of steel that reached as I lay weeping

Grasped me up and welcomed me to home.

Where are you tonight, my best beloved?

What fate has befallen you alone out there?

What woe has stilled your golden voice from calling

And kept your running feet from coming here?

Send word to me by messenger or raven

On the backs of steeds or in the mouths of fish

Send me word before I die of longing

Before my heart forgets to hope or wish.

Can you feel me reaching for you now?

My fingers blindly groping in the dark

Touching naught but voids all full of nothing

Seeing not a flicker or a spark.

So long, so long, dear heart,  have I been waiting

Standing by the sad and silent shore

Watching for a sign there in the blue skies

Thinking you don't love me anymore.

But surely it's a demon whispering to me

Surely, it cannot be true or fact

If you are lost then my love must go on searching

To the ends of all of the earth to bring you back.

I cry, I cry with tears of endless yearning

I weep with sorrow from a broken heart

I need, I need to know where you are hiding

And what thing conspires to keep our souls apart.

The whispering winds can carry my words to you

Surely, God will send them to your ears

He formed the two of us to be together

He can't approve of all this suffering here.

See how the butterflies cling to my teardrops!

They try to wipe my loneliness away

They kiss me with their tiny, fragile wings now

And wave back to me as they fly away.

And look! See how the roses grow around me!

They caress my skin and leave their sweet perfume

A sky lark perches on a tree branch swaying

And sings to me, "Don't weep, you'll see him soon."

What hope leaps in my heart from out of nowhere!

What love surrounds me from an unknown source

I hear a sound that's coming from a distance

Like pounding hooves...and there it is, the horse!

And on it's back, a man clad in white raiment

I raise my hands to Heaven that God's heard

But when he reaches me, he is a stranger

And he says to me, "I bring you word.

The one you love was wounded in the battle

He clings to life by just a slender thread

But for your love he's held on by sheer willing

By all accounts he should have been long dead."

And all my heart and all my soul cries for you

With bitter tears that fall like torrent rain

I run to the horse and man who pulls me upward

Who seems to feel my heartbreak and my pain.

And on we ride through other-worldly sunlight

Through forests I have never seen before

To a castle tall and shining just before us

And to gates of pearl that I've read about in lore.

The man in white deposits me to others

Who smile at me and take my trembling hand

"He waited for the day that you could join him"

They say to me and lead me to the man.

And there you are and there I am in Heaven!

You hold out your arms to me with shining eyes

I didn't know I'd passed from life to death

I didn't know and I did not ask why.

You walk me down a pathway to a garden

Filled with flowers and bird song and with love

You touch my face and whisper how you love me

And joy rains down on us from skies above.

My love, my ever love, we are together

From life to death and life again it seems

I do not breathe for I'm afraid I'll waken

And find that we live only in my dreams.

©by Voo

November 5, 2018

12:40 a.m.

**For my muse

that I have found again**

TRUST is the highest form of praise

TRUST

most beautiful melody
I ever heard

Trust song given by the Spirit
sung by Voo

The light I give you....don't hide it....share it and it will grow..

Use Your Gifts......................

Don't keep them hidden.......

My light in you will cover the Earth.............

Follow the Light...............always

and it will lead you to the secret city....your heavenly home....

That only those full of my light may see manifested..........

You need only to trust in my words..............

And BELIEVE.................to enter in..............

Thank you for trusting Me, welcome home!

My Kingdom I'll provide you.....

When you give the highest form of praise.....

your trust.

Words to the Song

Come children, dance before me

Come worship and adore me

Come lay your lives before me

In the highest form of praise.

Come sing me hallelujah

And I'll give blessings to ya

Overtake and pursue you

When you give the highest form of praise.

Come let me live inside you

Direct you, teach and guide you

My kingdom I'll provide you

When you give the highest form of praise.

What is this thing you ask Me?

What do you tell and task me?

Your TRUST is all I'm asking......

That's the highest form of praise.

Your Trust is all I'm asking

That's the highest form of Praise.

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And when I asked Him exactly what He meant

He said, If you know someone trusts you with all their

heart, don't you feel highly praised by that knowledge?

If a little child trusts you to always be there and take

care of them and you know that, do you need any other praise

from them to make you feel loved?

No, Trust is the highest form of praise

Absolute trust in Me as your Father is all the praise I need

from you and all I ask.

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HABIBI (my love)

Habibi

Eyes as black as night

And skin like caramelized sugar

In a thawb as white as clouds

In an azure sky

You appeared like a vision

To my hungry eyes.

I watched you walk

Through the gardens

And the vines seemed 

To reach for you 

With tiny green fingers

That I wished were mine.

Everywhere there was

The scent of flowers

And spices, rare and fragrant

Floated in the air

Above your head

And trailed behind you

In the dust.

You moved like a lion

Regal and  confident

Like a Prince

Yet somehow, approachable

Even as I shrank back

Into the roses

And the shadow's embrace.

You carried something 

In your hand

Wrapped in silk

And tied with ribbon

And all my friends who watched you

Wished it was for them.

Pretending to be busy

With chore or garden,

They looked away

And bent round

With their baskets

And giggled in their hands.

"Habibti!" I heard you call out

And my heart melted in my breast

"Come forth, Little Flower

I have a gift I have brought you!"

And all the girls looked at me

With daggers in their eyes 

And wished they could be me.

Pulling you back into the arbor,

You laughed and dropped your gift

And took me in your arms

"Why are you hiding, my heart?

Why are you always playing games?"

And my dark eyes looked up into yours

And my soul joined with yours

As it did every time we met

And longed to be permanently

And eternally joined.

"Have you been weeping, Jameela?"
You asked,

Looking closely at my face

"Who has made my Yar Amar cry?"

You asked, alarmed and I tried to hide my tears

"It's nothing, Habibi." I say

"Nothing, my Ishq, all is well."

But all was not well but how could 

I tell you, my Ha Rouhi

That my father had taken all hope away

With his sudden announcement

At the noon meal.

"I have found you a husband, Noor."

He said matter-of-factly 

As I passed him the bread

With my eyes cast low

My mother clapped her hands

And smiled like the moon

When it is full.

"Sa ha!" she exclaimed happily

Flitting around the room like a butterfly

Intisar with joy at the thought

Of her only daughter being wed

And never knowing that I was already wed

In my heart.

"Habibi! My Habibi!" I cried

And threw myself into your arms

"I can't believe what my father has done to me!"

"What? What?" you asked loudly

And shook my by the arms

"What has your father done to you, Roohi?"

"Qalbi! Qalbi!, I will die, I will die!"

I wept, panic taking hold of me

"I will not marry anyone else! Never, never, never!"

And I collapsed on the green grass

At your feet.

You stood there in stunned silence

For many long eternities

As I died and was reborn over and over again

Only to die again of a broken heart.

You picked the silk wrapped package

Off the ground and held it in your hands

Trying to make sense of what I was telling you

Wondering what you would say to me

When I stopped crying.

And then a smile broke out on your handsome face

Like the sun breaking through the clouds

And you grabbed me up in your arms

And danced me 'round and 'round.

"Have you gone mad?" I shouted at you

And all the girls in the gardens looked up sharply

And all around to see what the conflict was

Hoping that it was you setting me free

So that they might take my place.

"Jameela, roohi, love of my life!" you said

And tore open the package,

 Took out a bracelet of rubies,

And slipped it on my wrist

 As I looked at you like a mad man.

"It is I."

"It is I that your father wishes you to marry!

My father has been meeting with him all week

And I was just told of their decision this morning!"

Hardly believing my ears, I stood there 

Covering my huge smile with my hands

Then I stretched out my arm 

To admire the bracelet.

And then I grabbed your hand

And we went running through the gardens

Like children, laughing like children

While all my jealous friends watched

And swore, un-lady-like underneath their breath.

©by Voo

Jan 22, 2019

2:56 a.m.

For Hamid of Jeddah
my love
wherever you are

Passion

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