Lovely Rain, Deadly Rain song from WOTW story

LOVELY RAIN, DEADLY RAIN



 VERSE ONE

QUIET LIKE A WHISPER, THEY'RE BEGINNING TO DROP 
THEY FALL FROM THE DARK CLOUDS AND YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM STOP
FALL TO THE DUSTY EARTH FROM THE BLUE OF THE SKY 
BRINGING FORTH NEW LIFE TO SPRING UP AND DIE.

 VERSE TWO

RAIN ON THE ROOFTOPS AND RAIN ON THE GROUND 
FAT SILVER DROPLETS, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SOUND 
GATHERING MOMENTUM AS THE THUNDER ROLLS ON
WASHING AWAY FOOTPRINTS TILL THE TRACES ARE GONE.

 CHORUS:

 RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH
 THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH
 BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP 
 A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.

 VERSE THREE

IN THE MIDNIGHT, IT'S MAGIC AND IN THE MORNING, IT'S SWEET 
SPLASHING IN MUDDY POOLS FOR THE BABY'S BARE FEET 
LIFE GIVING WATER FOR THE FARMER'S DRY FIELDS
SUCH A GIFT FROM THE HEAVENS THAT YOU KNOW GOD IS REAL.

 VERSE FOUR 

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, MEMORIES OF LOVE 
COLD ICY SURPRISES AS THEY FALL FROM ABOVE 
HIDING UNDER TALL TREES AND OLD BARNS AND SUCH 
OH THE STORMS OF MY CHILDHOOD, HOW I LOVED THEM SO MUCH!

 CHORUS:

RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH 
THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH 
BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP
A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.


 VERSE FIVE

 NOW THE OLD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE GREAT FLOODS OF THE EARTH
 I'VE HEARD ALL OF THE TRAGEDIES SINCE THE TIME OF MY BIRTH
 BRINGING SUCH MISERY AND BRINGING SUCH PAIN 
 LIFE AND DEATH COMING DOWN IN THE FORM OF THE RAIN.

 VERSE SIX 

BUT TONIGHT IN YOUR SWEET ARMS WHILE THE LIGHTNING IS BRIGHT
AND THE THUNDER, IT FINDS US AS WE HIDE IN THE NIGHT 
I FORGET ALL THE WARNINGS ABOUT DANGER AND FLOOD 
AND WE LAUGH IN THE RAINFALL AND IT'S TOUCH FEELS SO GOOD.

 CHORUS:

 RAIN, IT IS LOVELY AND WE NEED IT SO MUCH
 THE GRASS NEEDS IT'S DRENCHING AND THE ROSE NEEDS IT'S TOUCH
 BUT RAIN IS SO DEADLY WHEN IT DOESN'T STOP
 A DOZEN DREAMS WASHED AWAY WITH EACH LITTLE DROP.


 EXTRA VERSE TO END

 BUT TONIGHT IN YOUR SWEET ARMS AS I HOLD YOU SO TIGHT
 I REVEL IN THE STORM CLOUDS AND I DREAM IN THE NIGHT
 LOVELY RAIN IS NOT THREATENING BUT I'M STILL CARRIED AWAY
 LOVELY RAIN IS NOT THREATENING BUT I'M STILL CARRIED AWAY

 LOVELY RAIN, AND YOUR SWEET LOVE ... IT STILL SWEEPS ME AWAY.


 ©BY VOO
 SEPT 27, 2005 
 1 A.M. 

All I Want

All I Want

Young and ancient in my heart

I yearn to feel alive

I long to feel the touch of love

And know the reasons why

Why life is sad and days are long

Just something to get through

I need to know why I was born

And I want to know the truth

Friends? I never had a friend

At least someone I could trust

I thought I had one who loved me

But all it was was lust

My innocence was lured away

My trusting soul rejected

My emotions killed with cruel disdain

And my heart cries were neglected

All day I search the sky for God

All night I cringe in fear

My sleep is stolen by nightmares

And I feel no angel near

I walk the streets alone and cold

Even in the sunlight's glow

And laugh my bitter hardened laugh

That hides a broken soul

Too young! they tell me, you're too young

To feel like you should die

You have no reason to feel this way

To have sorrow in your eyes

But they don't know, they cannot know

How my heart longs to fly free

They see my youth, my unwrinkled brow

But I know they don't see me

I reach a halting outstretched hand

Sometimes to others when

They slap my hand and I say then

I'll never reach again

This nothingness is heavy

This emptiness is full

How can I believe that kindness lives

When all I see is cruel?

My life is like a bottomless pit

I tumble down and down

In dream and shadow, falling, hopeless

And laughing like a clown

And all I want is for someone

To fill up this widening crack

For God to reach down from the sky

And pat me on the back.

©By Voo

May 27, 2005

 11:30 pm

Caling To Me In The Dark (love theme for WOTW story

CALLING TO ME IN THE DARK

(love song for the Man With Sky Colored Eyes)

WARRIORS OF THE WAY

The Movie

VERSE ONE:

YEARS I STUMBLED IN THE TWILIGHT OF A NIGHT THAT NEVER ENDS

SEEKING SADLY FOR SOME COMFORT, SEARCHING STRANGERS FOR A FRIEND

LONGING UNKNOWN FOR THE SUNRISE OF LOVE SHINING ON MY HEART

NOW I SEE YOU ON THE HORIZON, CALLING TO ME IN THE DARK.

VERSE TWO:

HOW I'VE YEARNED TO HEAR A LOVE SONG, HOW I'VE PRAYED TO SEE THE RAIN

FALLING GENTLY ON MY SOUL NOW, WASHING ME CLEAN OF THE PAIN

NEVER KNOWING THAT YOUR SWEET LOVE COULD REVIVE AND MAKE ME LIVE

NEVER KNOWING YOU WERE LONGING FOR THE LOVE THAT I COULD GIVE.

CHORUS:

I HEAR YOU CALLING, LOVE IS FALLING

LIKE THE MORNING DEW IN MAY

AND I'M OH, SO SCARED TO LOVE YOU

BUT DON'T LET ME RUN AWAY

LOVE, DON'T LET ME RUN AWAY.

VERSE THREE:

ON THE ROAD NOW FOR FOREVER, WILL I REACH MY JOURNEY'S END?

FIGHTING BATTLES OF THE MIND, NOW, KEEPING MY SOUL SAFE FROM SIN

LIVING LONELY, HEART SO STONY, KEEPING MY GOALS FRESH AND TRUE

BUT JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS TILL MY EYES WERE LAID ON YOU.

VERSE FOUR:

NOW I SEE YOU RUNNING TOWARD ME, YOUR HANDS REACHING OUT TO ME

AND I FEEL THE TOUCH OF HEAVEN THAT MY EYES COULD NEVER SEE

AND THE FIRE IT BURNS INSIDE ME, WAS IGNITED BY THE SPARK

OF THE EMBER OF YOUR SWEET LOVE CALLING TO ME IN THE DARK.

CHORUS:

I HEAR YOU CALLING, LOVE IS FALLING

LIKE THE MORNING DEW IN MAY

AND I'M OH, SO SCARED TO LOVE YOU

BUT DON'T LET ME RUN AWAY

LOVE, DON'T LET ME RUN AWAY

EXTRA: SPOKEN WORD

THERE'S A LOVE FOR EVERY SOUL NOW

IN THIS LONELY, LOVELY PLACE

AND I SEE ME IN YOUR EYES NOW

AND I'M SHINING ON YOUR FACE

I CAN FEEL TOMORROW RISING

I SAY GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY

AND I'M HOME AT LAST IN YOUR ARMS

AND I'LL NEVER RUN AWAY

NO, LOVE, I'LL NEVER RUN AWAY.

©by Voo

Sept 26, 2005

3 a.m.

The One

The One

Poet of my heart
Singer of my song
Lover of my sunny days
And every night so long

Dancer of my sweetheart waltz
Musician of the tune
That makes each step so feather light
It floats me to the moon

Embracer of my wanton needs
Kisser of my lips
Toucher of my silken form
With your fevered fingertips

Ravisher of my body
Satisfier of my soul
Alchemist that turns my tin
Into solid gold

Sweetest taste upon my mouth
Wine of which I never tire
Food of love that fills me up
Match that lights my fire

Smiling eyes that mesmerize
Hands that hold me close
My man, my prince, my everything
My mortal and my ghost

No words have I to further describe
My daylight, midnight Sun
In this world of men, unknown and known
You are the One, the only One.

©by Voo
Oct 25, 2019
2:50 p.m.

The Beauty, Romance and Wisdom of RUMI

                       

This we have now

is not imagination.

This is not

grief or joy.

Not a judging state,

or an elation,

or sadness.

Those come and go.

This is the presence that doesn't. 

 Rumi

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden's beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land. 

 Rumi

I was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter

all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal

love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don't
fit this house
i went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains

love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don't
fit the group
i went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness

love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism
i went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all

love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering every one
around you
i am no more
a candle spreading light
i gather no more crowd
and like smoke
i am all scattered now

love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader
i am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes

love said
you already have
your own wings
i will not give you
more feathers
and then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light

overflowed with fresh life.
now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
i have become
the giver of light 


 Rumi

There's courage involved if you want

to become truth.

There is a broken- open place in a lover.

Where are those qualities of bravery and

sharp compassion in this group? What's the

use of old and frozen thought?

I want a howling hurt. This is not a treasury

where gold is stored; this is for copper.

We alchemists look for talent that

can heat up and change.

Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back,

 well-enough getting by? Not here. 

 Rumi

A lover asked his beloved

Do you love yourself more

than you love me?

The beloved replied,

I have died to myself

and I live for you.

I've disappeared from myself

and my attributes.

I am present only for you.

I have forgotten all my learning,

but from knowing you

I have become a scholar.

I have lost all my strength,

but from your power

I am able.

If I love myself

I love you.

If I love you

I love myself. 

 Rumi

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Looking For Your Face 
Rûmi

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you

Your efflugence
has lit a fire in my heart
And you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer

Tamally Ma'ak