The Princess and the Prince

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The Princess and the Prince

Once upon a time on earth

There came a child of royal birth

A girl so sweet and yet so shy

If one approached her, she would cry.

She didn't fit into the world

And so she was a lonely girl

Living in a world of books

While guardians gave her dirty looks.

They couldn't understand why she

Could not be like they were, you see

But she could not be as they were

She could only be like her.

And as she grew, she changed a bit

Till none of her old clothes would fit

Her boyish form had changed to girl

And she was thrust into the world.

A world where everything was strange

And told her that she, too, must change

And though she tried to please her peers

She knew she'd never fit in here.

They had their fun, they teased and taunted

But the Princess knew she was not wanted

Not in the way she needed so

And her every question was answered, no.

She lost herself in poetry

And saw things others could not see

She walked in worlds unseen by blind

Folk who'd never be her kind.

The myth, the legend, the fairy tale

These things would make her sad heart well

Her world comprised of fantasy

That only her dark eyes could see.

And when she'd grown to womanhood

She looked to find a love so good

But only ogres and trolls she found

Who smashed her sweet heart to the ground.

And still she searched and still she sought

And duels for her love were fought

But when the victor claimed his prize

She found his heart was full of lies.

What is a princess without a prince?

What good is love if it makes you wince?

And run and hide in silent tears

While life marched on down roads for years?

The princess soon gave up her quest

Though she had passed each trial and test

And kept her honor and kept her stance

But still dreamed at night of sweet romance.

And then one night, out of a dream

A man appeared out of the mist, it seemed

And fell to his knees at her bedside

And watched her as she slept and sighed.

"Sweet Princess, open up your eyes

I have been sent with a surprise

Your heart has pleaded and your plea was heard."

And she opened her eyes but said not a word.

"I came to love you and make you glad

Your heart has been broken and shattered and sad

And the God up in Heaven and the angels who cheer

Have chosen me for you and have sent me here."

"Are you a prince?" at last she spoke

And her dark eyes lit up with hope

But he hung his head and  just said, "No."

And stood to his feet and turned to go.

"Wait!" she cried, "Please do not leave."

And it broke his heart to see her grieve

"If you're not a prince, I do not care."

And he stopped and stood in silence, there.

"I'm not a princess." she murmured low

"I've never thought I was, you know

They called me "princess" when I was young

But in bitter tones and with words that stung.

They wanted me to be like them

Though their thoughts were dull and their dreams were dim

And I could not conform to those

Who lived that half life that they chose.

And so they turned their backs on me

Turned up their noses so I would see 

And know I'd never be a part

Of that pair of guardians that had no heart.

They called me "Princess" but it was a smear

And said in loathing and with a sneer

And I knew no better than to believe the lie

And they laughed at my ignorance with disdain in their eye.

So all my life, I've been alone

With no family and no loving home

Looking for someone who was just like me

A prince without anything but his royalty.

I'm not a princess, I know that now

I'm just a girl who survived somehow

And lived and learned and loved no one

 But the dream in my heart and the man in my song."

And the man turned round and wore a smile

And he stood and he watched her for such a long while

Then he knelt beside her and took her hand

"No prince am I but just a man

And a man who was lonely and looking, like you

For someone to love and love me so true

I have never fit in, I have never conformed

I was taunted with insults from the day I was born.

I was sneered at for being who I chose to be

And never knew love for just being me

They called me a "prince" upon his high horse

And I chose to be royal but I wasn't, of course."

And the woman laughed and said "It's true!"

"You're just like me, I'm just like you!"

"Why have I never seen your face?

Why have you never found this place?"

And the man took her into his arms

No prince but crowned with many charms

And said, "Love, I don't know why or how

I haven't been here but I am here now."

And the sad girl who cried and the boy who felt low

Loved each other with love that few ever know

And they live in a dream world that no one has dreamed since

The girl they called "Princess and the boy they called Prince."

©by  Voo

June 12, 2019

7:29 p.m.

A Place Called Love

A Place Called Love
IS
HEAVEN

COME LORD JESUS, COME..............

Home
by 
Gwangsig Park

Seeds, Lost and Found

thunderstorm

Seeds, Lost and Found

I do not know why I was never afraid of storms
Why I longed for them, looked for them, prayed for them
Needing to feel that electrical charge in the air,
That blinding white lightning, that menacing roar
That violent thrusting of a great downpour.

Sans umbrella, I would run in the rain
Wade in the water, play in the mud
Dare the Heavens to chastise my defiance,
Fling out my arms and beg angels to dance
For no mortal would, like me, take a chance.

And so I grew from girl to woman
Always searching, always wanting
Always needing, always grieving
Always lonely with no love around
Always lost and never found.

And then I saw with eyes wide open
The strangest thing, the sweetest thing
So like a dream but not a dream
A dream come true like a fond wish granted
My tears turned to seeds and those seeds then were planted.

And I watered  them and I tended them
I cared for them like the gardener of Eden
Sometimes a seed would sprout out of the dirt
And I would watch hopefully with tears in my eye
Only to see it soon wither and die.

Disappointment was the cloak I wore
Dark with despair and disconsolate
Dangerously daring and almost past caring
I ran then from love for I could no longer take
Watching what I thought was real turn to fake.

So I pretended that I didn't care 
Played with the tigers and ran with the lions
An innocent lost in the valley of shadows
Trying so hard to be found in this world
But just a face in the crowd of lost boys and girls.

We had our fun out on the run
Defying death and loathing life
Gothic angels with bent halos
Seeking for shelter or a hole in the ground
But really, just dying to somehow be found.

And then one day after years of dying
For life had evaded and love had perished stillborn
I turned a corner  that I had never turned
And I saw the face that my soul had known
On a plant that sprang up from those tears I had sown. 

The face of a lost boy who wandered like me
Looking for something that he could never find
Standing before doors that were slammed in his face
Stinging from weapons of words to his heart
Our hands clasped as though they had not been apart.

His mouth, my mouth devoured with kisses
His eyes, my eyes would not look away from
His body, my body could not wait to make love to
His heart, my heart heard without making a sound
And this lost girl and that lost boy had finally been found.

In a world of madness, we had found our sanity
In a world of dragons, we had found our swords
In a world of darkness, we had found our light
In a world of lack filled with just empty shelves
We had found that love lived, we had found ourselves.

The lost boy and I who had both planted seeds
When we were just children and abandoned to weeds
When no love would spring up from our careful tending
Now flourished and nourished and scenting the air
He was my seed, I was his, born of dreams, standing there.





©by Voo
11/27/19
12:21 a.m.


Find Me
by Bread

THe Beast Calls (scary)

The Beast by Rhythm X Revival

The Beast Calls

The Beast Calls

The beast calls at midnight
When the moon is full and high
And I hear his mournful wailing
Like his soul's about to die.

I can hear him in my dreams
When I'm lying fast asleep
I can hear him running toward me
Up the mountain tall and steep.

I can hear his ragged breathing
Hear his panting in my ear
Hear him beg me to go with him
Though I pretend not to hear.

I can see his eyes upon me
Devouring me with lustful mouth
I can feel his teeth cut through my skin
Though the door has kept him out.

But he stands outside my window
Sending secrets to my brain
Telling me how much he loves me
And wants to be with me again.

But I cannot let him near me
I know I can't let him inside
For the man that once he had been
Is a wolf, the man has died.

But he begs me oh, so pitifully
That it breaks my loving heart
For I loved him, how I loved him
When our romance had it's start.

But the wolf girls took my lover
Took him in the full moon's glow
Kept him till he gave compliance
And they would not let him go.

So they hit him and they bit him
Changed his nature from a man
And they made him into something
That I cannot understand.

But he will not leave me here alone
He will not give me up
He tells me we'll be lovers once more
If I'll just drink of his cup.

And I tell him no time after time
I won't give in to his plea
But I do not know this very night
He has planned to deceive me.

A woman comes then to my door
Knocking softly like a friend
Smiling sweetly she asks if I 
Might be so kind to let her in.

And not thinking this could be a trick
I open up my door to her
And she pulls me out into the night
Into arms so soft like fur.

And they take me to their lair in chains
The wolfen girls that he has sent
Hold me prisoner till he comes for me
Behind iron bars that can't be bent.

I'm so frightened I can barely breathe
I can hardly stand to see
Then I feel his breath upon my face
As he puts his claws on me.

Please don't take my life away from me
My form, my face, and all I know
I beg softly to the man he was
But he shakes his great head, no.

Then I feel his sharp teeth ravage me
And I scream with all my might
I hear him say he's sorry in my mind
For the thing he does tonight.

Then he licks the blood off of my skin
Cradles me within his arms
And I drift away to deep darkness
Sheltered then from further harms.

In the morning I am still myself
As the me I know to be
 I look at my hands and feel my face
Fearing what I might soon see.

The change is slow and deadly certain
And I  can feel the savage blood
Flowing violently through my veins 
Like my sisters said it would.

And they took me from my prison
Then removed the chains from me
Gave me clothes to hide my nakedness
And they let me just go free.

I hid myself from all of nature
Hid myself from lion and loon
I hid from every living creature
But there was no hiding from the moon.

And the midnight came and took me
To the meadow bright as day
And the full moon did it's magic and
Took my human-ness away.

I became a thing I did not know
And I did not want to be
Screaming out my pain to Heaven
Then I saw him watching me.

Coming to me in the moonlight,
I saw the man turn into beast
And he howled out an invitation
To attend his ghastly hallowed feast.

And he took my hand and ran with me
Through the forests dark and green
And I saw with sight I'd never had
Things that I had never seen.

As we ran, my inhibitions fled
And I embraced what I'd become
My body changed, mind rearranged
And the forest  began to feel like home.

I could feel the joy within him
I could see love in his eyes
Finding our love had never died
Was to me a great surprise.

I never realized that creatures
Not humankind, could still feel love
Even wolves, slaves to the bidding
Of the full moon up above.

And as time passed, I so adjusted
To the life that I now led
Hiding in my human costume
With pure wolf thoughts in my head.

Longing for the lunar phases
To do their cycles and begin
To see the moon in all her fullness
And to run free once again.

©by Voo
Feb 17, 2019
8:12 a.m.

"AAooooooooooHHHHHH"