Collaboration Of Need and Desire

                                                                                   

A Collaboration Of Need and Desire

I tried to ignore you

But it was a hopeless ploy

I saw the boy inside the man

And the man inside the boy.

I too tried to ignore

Dismiss the obvious

Couldn’t stop imagining

Your tender kiss, your subtle touch.

I saw the way you looked at things

Like only a poet could

I saw the way you felt about things

Like only a real man would.

The uncanniness of expression

By those of likened minds 

Like hearts, like chemistry, like souls 

Those universal ties that bind.

And every day, in every way

On land and sea and shore

I felt you drawing me back to you

And those things, could not ignore.

So much is said in silence

Much more than when we speak

Yet my ability to sense who you are

Is at it’s euphoric peak.

I tried. I tried. I really tried

To forget I'd seen your face

But you left a mark upon my heart 

That can never be erased.

Roles are played, stands are taken

With so much postering

Only to succumb to the lonely void

And to the pain within.

Your passion calls to me at night

Your soul cries out to me

And even if it were possible

From you, I can't be free.

And yours to me, your passion calls

In codes and other intangible ways

Separated now,  oh yes we are 

But the desire, it never fades.

And though I try with all my might

As I've done in love before

To run from love with it's pain and glory, 

It's your love I can't ignore.

So much has been shared between us 

Memories that can't be put to death

Like a lion, my love chases your love down

And I'll love you still with my last breath.

(c)8-2020 Voo Shining Stone/Locthiese

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Illusion of Flight

 

Illusion of Flight

Catching the sight of three birds in flight

From the corner of my left eye, I

Felt a momentary pang of longing

Deep in the chest where my heart lies.

Fettered by feet and weary human-ness

I confess I am tired of this earth bound existence

Tired of this walking on hard packed sod

And ancient burial grounds of the long forgotten.

I want to rise up with wings

And soar with the freedom of untied dreams

Glide on the currents of the truly unbound

And dance on the intangible glories of sky.

I want to fly!

But still I walk, sighing loudly

The birds out of sight now, I

Hurry to my cubicle of conformity

Shoved in with the masses of the all-the-same.

Almighty dollars pressure me to reach

Needing them to meet my need, I

Strive in futile, uninspired destituted hope

Ever mindful of the ship coming in on the horizon.

I want to fly!

If I had been born a bird

I'd fly until my feathers fell out

And my wings would not lift me off the ground

And then I'd fly, a ghostbird, in Eden's realm.

I want to fly!

Retracing my steps back home from work

I sought to find the beautiful birds, I

Had seen in peripheral sight this morning

Knowing that it was an almost impossible thing.

But what! From the corner of my right eye

I spy their graceful forms above the hedges

Three white stainless birds of steel and structure

Fettered to the concrete by bars of iron!

I am crushed, I am disheartened, I am disconsolate

This revelation of illusion of flight has undone me

And I walk home with a much, much heavier heart

Than the one I had this morning.

I want to fly!

©by Voo

September 17, 07

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