What Is A Mile To Love? An observation on the heart

 

What Is A Mile To Love?

What is a mile to love?

A distance to the heart?

Oceans and mountains and skies full of stars

To unsundered souls sundered apart?

Like old songs said in days gone by

No mountain high, no valley low

They said that love could not be lost

But now we know, but now we know.

Lost but ever present still

Like ghosts that walk with timid step

Haunted hands that once sweetly caressed

That long to hold the hand that left.

The heart hears what the ear cannot 

The heart hungers for love it may never be fed

The heart knows the truth when the mind is confused

The heart still lives on though the flesh has long fled.

There is no distance in the realm of love

It disdains every ending like it cherishes the start

From birth unto death with every longing and breath

The heart finds no home till it finds the right heart.

And though that place may seem far away

Past boundaries, borders and seashores and sea

It matters not to the heart that loves yours

Your heart will always be right here with me.

©Voo Shining Stone

2/14/2026 ❤️

RIVERS AGO from Voo's Vault

RIVERS AGO

Rivers Ago

Rivers ago

I fought an unwinnable battle

I thought I knew the answers

But only questions came to light

When I laid my weary head 

Beneath the wayward stars.

You were there, always

An inch away from true love

And a million miles from me

Dancing in somebody else’s starlight

Quenching your thirst with a stranger’s wine

But never mine.

I’ve made it a habit

Of crossing rivers just to cross them

Going from one side to the other

Looking forward, looking back

To see which side looks better

But there’s no difference on either side for me.

You were fool’s gold

When I thought you were pure

Thought I’d found the mother lode of all love

The hidden treasure, the pearl of great price

The shelter for my homeless heart

But you tarnished when I held you in my hands.

Still I hoped

Until hope was drained by drought

And even then, dredged for your love

In the mud of dis-consolation

You were always on the wrong side of every river

Surrounded by broken boats

And I never learned to swim.

©by Voo

Feb 10, 08

             

   Bea's song
 by Cowboy Junkies 

         

I was listening to them

 while writing this.....

 

Nothing Rhymed Today.......golden oldie from Voo's Vault

Nothing Rhymed Today

Nothing rhymed today

There was no meter or melody

No singing lyric or verse of song

Just jangled nerves and unspoken fears

Left dangling on my key chain.

Cars passed me

In the pouring rain

And never acknowledged the girl

With the gas can and the thumb

And the mascara running down my face.

I could have shown some leg

I suppose

But my clothes were plastered to me

Like I had been poured into them

And everything I had was exposed already.

If it had been yesterday

I would have laughed at my mishap

Run down the highway

Danced in the rain and stopped traffic

With the glow on my shining face.

Everything rhymed yesterday

Every word that issued from my mouth

Was finely tuned, in perfect key

Poetry sprang from my fingertips

And car horns sounded like sonnets.

But I have no music left in me

It walked out in your suitcase last night

Winked it's dark eye and said goodbye

And I heard it laughing

All the way down the staircase to the street.

Poetry is a traitor

It makes you write when you don't want to

From places you don't want to revisit

Sing songs so sad they break the heart

And make rhymes of things that will never rhyme again.

©by Voo Shining Stone

August 8, 07

 

CIRCLE 🖤❤️ from the vault

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