No Place For Me

No Place For Me


I toss and turn here in this bed
Looking for your form
I reach to feel the empty place
And my heart feels forlorn.

Why can't you be where you belong?
Why can't you be with me?
Why must you run toward other goals
That only you can see?

I try to hear and rationalize
But my heart can't understand
It only knows that I'm a woman
That needs to hold her man.

A woman, true and needing
To love as only a woman can
A woman who needs to just be needed
As only a true man can.

But you are there and I am here
And never the twain shall meet
For if they could I'd run to you
Upon my winged' feet.

This life is just a game of chance
But not even a real game
It's just a plodding day to day
The same but not the same.

They say God has a plan for us
But we don't know what's in store
And every day in every way
We find that we need more.

Because the world gives less and less
And takes what little we still hold
We trudge along without a song
As our youth gives in to old.

So when true love falls onto us
We need to grasp it tight
For wealth and fame and a well known name
Can't hold us in the night.

But you have not learned that fact yet
For you're still running for the prize
Needing everything but what
Is here right before your eyes.

And you're gone again here from my bed
Up and gone with dawn
Leaving me with empty arms
And a heart that feels alone.

I hope you make your dreams come true
And bring to pass for all to see
But in my heart I know that in the dreams you dream
That there is no place for me.

©by Voo
Sept 8. 2019
11:40 p.m.

On The Other Side of the Other Side

On The Other Side of the Other Side


Out there in the cold gray dawn
I see you in the mist
Your face so sad and vulnerable
Needing to be kissed.

I cannot bear to see it
I cannot bear to feel
And yet I do not really know
If it is false or real.

You raise your hopeful eyes to me
A tear runs down your face
You plead with me yet silently
To all your fears, erase.

And I don't know the way to go
To make you smile again
Two lovers, we, so wild and free
That started out as friends.

Then love stepped in and pulled us
Down to love's dark depths
So star-crossed, we, so love starved, we
Needed love, despaired, bereft.

And the more we loved, the more we wanted
The more it slipped our grasp
And futures bright bade us goodnight
And slipped into our past.

What good is love if it can't live
Within the present time?
What good is love if it can't exist
Outside the tortured mind?

I ache to hold you desperately
In my two arms so tight
To bid you stay here in the day
And banish the lonely night.

But wishes are only wishes
And hope is just a yen
And yearning is just a dream undreamed
Of what might have, could have been.

I see you in the mist of dawn
Your head bowed on your chest
Waiting for me to come to you
And give your soul a rest.

But here between the two of us
There stands an invisible door
'Twixt tangible and ethereal
And it won't open any more.

I've tried to break it down with tears
I've tried a hammer's pounding
But the hammer bounced back in my hand
And in my tears I just fell, drowning.

I watch you in that mirror now
There on on the other side
Waiting to see if you can find the key
To the place where I reside.

What cruel, cruel fate, the two of us
Have been assigned and yet
We're sentenced to recall the rise and fall
And the love we can't forget.

My love, I know you hear me
There on your side of this
Unhappy world where boy and girl
Were wedded with one kiss.

Then torn apart with breaking hearts
To exist in the world alone
Watching one another fade
Till the two of us are gone.





©by Voo
9/09/19
2:29 p.m.

CIRCLE

Circle

Inside a circle in the sky

I thought I heard a distant cry

I raised my head and looked around

While red stars fell upon the ground

I wondered if it could be true

And looked again and I saw you.

A being, bright and full of grace

With a smile like sunlight on your face.

You reached for me, a timid girl

And away we went into your world.

Now here we live, in love and mirth

And watch the chaos on the Earth.

You saved me from my loneliness

And from much worse, I dare to guess.

But it was me that heard your cry

Inside that circle in the sky.

No one but me, your heart has found

There with the red stars on the ground.

No one but us live here together

And we shall live here for forever.

The two of us, joined now at last

Our futures found, birthed in the past.

I bless the day I heard your cry

Inside this circle in the sky.

For if I hadn't, I would'nt be found

But lost like the red stars down there on the ground.

©By Voo Shining Stone

March 20, 2020