Love Was Our Alibi

Love was my alibi
by Kris Fogelmark

Love Was Our Alibi
(a true fable for the ages)



Love was our alibi
And our defense................
Even as the world spun backwards
And made no sense

Love was our reason
And our excuse............
Even as the stars fell down
When the dark sky set them loose

Love was our motive
And our refrain
Even as the sun's rays sputtered out
And drowned in rain

Love was our security
And our hope
Even as the bravest man cried
And said he could not cope

Love lifted us
When we had fallen down
Picked us up in hands of angels
As we lay on the ground

Sat our feet on solid rock
Until we knew
That I could walk again
And run to you

And as I ran
I saw the darkness flee
For light shone there before you
As you ran to me

And as the world around us
Crashed and burned
We knew we could rebuild again
From all we'd learned

The long long days of solitude 
Were now gone
And once again our hearts
Had found their home

But we were captured then
We couldn't stay
But pulled off of the Earth
To a vast place far away

The dark ones that held us prisoner
Looked and sighed
And acknowledged we were guiltless
As they cried

Our crimes were thrown forgotten
In the sea
 They could separate us no longer
You and me

For we had earned our entrance
To Heaven's gate
And proved ourselves steadfast
As those who wait

To once again, unite
In love's embrace
And see at last the joy
Shine on the face

Of each of us
The criminals, once named
Who dared to love
When love was to be blamed

They had brought us to the judges
Of the skies
And demanded to be told
Our alibis

And as we stood, in chains
With quivering lips
They questioned us with words
That felt like whips

But we could not defend
 Ourselves with lies
We hung our heads
And said," Our alibis

Are only love
And love alone, it's true
It is the reason for all things
We do"

And to our shock
We watched in awe, aghast
As our chains fell off
And we stood free at last

The judges smiled and nodded
As we knelt
In one another's arms
As Heaven wept

"You've learned the truth of truth" 

They said..."To live
And learned so well
Your freedom we must give"

"How few of men
Have learned the reason why
For life bestowed
And lived beneath the sky"

 

And the dark ones flew away
To others find
That did not know the truth
In heart and mind

They could not deceive the ones
That knew the Light
And walked in it
And not the evil Night

For only love is answer
Good enough
To every question asked
And to rebuff

Love, alone the reason
For it all
For every rise to summit 
And to fall

Love, alone can mend 
The shattered heart
The stopping of it's beating
And it's start

For man was made to love
And then to die
And take his treasures with him
Past the sky

To give them to the One
Who made it all
Who made the ear
To listen for His call

For no other reason
Will He justify
The things you do on earth
Beneath the sky

But only love can free you
From the cell
Of selfishness and sin:
Your self made hell

For Heaven knows
What you must learn in time
That love must be the motive
For your 'crimes'

These crimes that are no crimes
Except to man
Who thinks he holds the world
Within his hand

But his hands are empty
And his heart and eye
And he will not accept love
As a reason why

But to the One who made
The sky and sand
It is the only reason He made
 Man

To love and learn to love
Before he dies
And for every act he does
And all he tries

The motivation of his heart
And soul
To love and be loved in return:
His goal

What's done in love, pure love
Is not a crime
And will be thus rewarded
There in time

(So let our story teach you
Of this truth
And let our joy and glory
Be your proof

This book of truth you read now
With your eye
Will set you free if 
Love's your alibi

For no chain can bind you
When love has freed you thus
So take our hands
And run there now with with us

To Heaven where there is
No shame to bear
And you breathe in love and joy
Like it was air

And we will look on Earth
(Our former ground)
And watch the lost still seeking
What we've found.)

©by VooShiningStone
March 24, 2019
4:40 p.m.

LET LOVE BE YOUR ONLY ALIBI
and though man and devil
can not understand
God will and those He holds there
In His hands............
                       💖

And truth will find you
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Desperate Characters repost

start music now

Desperate Characters

Desperate characters

we dance in the dark

trying to capture

that magic, that spark

Wining and dining

and yearning to feel

the way that we did once

when true love was real

Desperate characters

we probe with our eyes

and try to detect there

the truth and the lies

Hoping for something

that can't be replaced

by strangers and others

that time has erased

Desperate characters

we give it a whirl

out there on the floor

the ballroom of the world

Of loving and losing

and losing some more

two ships without anchors

that have crashed on the shore

Still looking for magic

and longing for home

cause a house is just shelter

when you live alone

Desperate characters

trying so to be brave

holding onto a moment

that the heart cannot save

Then the music, it stops now

and the bright lights come on

in the dark, I was hopeful

but I'm leaving alone.

©by Voo

Sept 13, 2005

1:23 a.m.

Fabian Perez

painter of these marvelous paintings............

Three Songs I Love by Lizz Wright ...incredible

The Dream Came True

The Dream Came True



Many years ago, I had a dream
And the dream came true yesterday
I stood where I am standing now
And I heard my sad heart say:

I never dreamed I'd see this day
Of this departure, I couldn't conceive
I thought this man would live forever
And I could not believe.

I saw him lying where he lays now
I saw his brown eyes closed
He's playing one of his pranks, I thought
That's what I then supposed.

But he never opened his eyes again
At least, not on this earthly plane
But in Heaven, he lifted up his eyes
And in wonder, smiled again.

He saw his parents waiting there
His son, sister and his brother
And Jesus holding out his arms to him
And my father and my mother.

They knew him and they welcomed him
Though in life here on this earth
That day never came, much to my shame
For in him, they saw no worth.

But for him, I gave up my whole life
And all I'd ever known
Gave up my family and friends
To make his heart my home.

And life was hard and I knew heartbreak
But there was a lot of joy
With that man who was old enough to be my dad
But in his heart, still just a boy.

He had his little sayings,
His eccentricities to boot
His eyes would light up when you walked in
And he'd yell, "Wahoot!"

He had his goofy stories, 
His ways that drove you mad
He told his kids that he was a "toad"
And they'd laugh and say, Oh, Dad!"

He had his faults and failings
Of those things, we're all aware
But we never thought the day would come
When that man would not be there.

I remember when I had the dream
Those long long years ago
I woke in tears, overcome by fears
And prayed to God in woe.

I called my friends and pastors
To tell me what it meant
For I knew that dream was prophetic
And from whom that dream was sent.

And days went by and still I cried
And held my fearful breath
Till I went to a church where a woman was praying
And she said, "I see a death."

"But it's not a normal death," said she
As in this world where death is rife
For I see that man come out of that coffin
And be raised up in new life!"

"When he comes up, he'll not be the same
Sister, try to understand
When his old nature is put to death
He'll be a brand new man!"

 And, oh, the joy that flooded me!
To this day, praise I still give
To the Lord who'd heard my every prayer
And gave him more time to live.

And I have no doubt, he worked it out
And laid down his pride somehow
Surrendered himself to the King of Kings
And that he is with Him now.

It's the end of an era, a friend told me
When he heard that Robert had passed
And I knew exactly what he meant
And that the time had come at last.

But this time, I am not afraid for him
But glad to know he's gone
From this place of pain, and fears and tears
Up to Paradise, his home.

I  want to remember him as he was
Not the victim of tragedy's knife
But a man who seemed to stand ten feet tall
And who was larger than life.

I know we'll miss him now he's gone
And count each day and hour and minute
Till we see him again,  but this world will never
Be the same without him in it.


©by Voo
June 15, 2019
2:42 p.m.

Give Me A Name

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Give Me A Name

It gets dark now at dawn

The old ones say the world has died

But just hasn't laid down to sleep yet

I don't know about that

But I know that everything just feels wrong.

I found me a diamond yesterday

Laying in the midnight sun

Down in the creek bed big as my fist

Fishes swimming all around it

Like they were protecting it for me.

My grandfather started singing a song

But got too choked up to finish

And he handed me his drum

And said "I'm giving you this song

I can't sing it anymore."

So I caught my pony

And we ran over thirty two miles of red dirt 

Dark clouds passing over our heads like birds

Laughing, trying to hold onto childhood

And singing my grandfather's song.

If I grow up, I want to be...I want to be a human

A being made of ground

And breath breathed by the Creator

Not one of the clay people who walk around

With hollow eyes and empty souls.

My brother's like that

He was human before he went away to war

But he came back hollow and soul-less

With broken eyes and no sound to his laughter

I don't think he's in there anymore.

My father hasn't spoken in thirteen years

Not since the day I was born

Not once has he smiled at me or touched my hair

My mother said he wanted a boy to replace my brother

But I came into the world in a feminine form.

I hear the old ones sometimes

They whisper to me in the woods

And down by the river when I'm fishing

Sometimes we sing together in the native tongue

And they make me forget that I'm a nameless child.

There are no children here, only me

And what I know, I've taught myself

We live so far away from civilization

I'm not sure what country we are in

Or what planet we live on.

When my grandmother lay dying

She gave me her beads and her wedding dress

Made of fine, soft skins made by her mother

And she said, "Daughter, don't let yourself die."

And I promised I wouldn't but I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

I wish I lived in the days of the warriors

And teepees and buffaloes and sharp arrowheads

Not this faded gray world and this tar papered shack

On this plot of dead earth

Where hope no longer grows.

If I grow up....if I become a woman

I think I might try to run away from here

I'll take my pony, for I can see the longing, too, in his eyes

And we'll walk until we can see the sun still shining in the morning

There among the humans.... if we find any.

 And I'll give my diamond

To the man who will give me a name.

                    

  ©By Voo

     Nov 10, 07

     6:45 p.m.