How Long Does It Take?

How Long Does It Take?

How long does it take to stop loving somebody?

How long does it take to stop wanting someone?

How long till it stops feeling like you are homeless

When you've lost that sweet heart that so long felt like home?

How long till the nights stop being eons of time?

And the days are long days that you wish would just end?

How long till it seems that your hopes and your dreams

Didn't die with the love in the eyes of your friend?

How long till the hurt doesn't hurt anymore?

For you no longer feel and you no longer care

And the sorrow and wrath and the pain makes a path

To the darkness that grabs you when there's nobody there?

I don't know all these answers, I cannot comprehend

What the world and it's schemes do to a woman and man

I have tried to decipher, I have tried to make sense

How one soul becomes two when one soul builds a fence.

Why can we not perceive when the devil comes creeping?

Why can we not see how he delights in love's death?

Why do we fight each other, our true loves, our lovers

Instead of fighting that devil with our last living breath?

How long, oh my Lord, will this battle keep raging?

How long till the sun shines and never goes dark?

How long till we know we can trust one another

And not just trust one another to break each other's heart?

I have crawled back into my old shell of heartache

Where there is no sunshine and no drop of rain

Down to the desert of despaired desolation

Where the fantasy is pleasure and reality's pain.  

How long will it be till I feel whole again?

How long till the world seems a safe place to live?

How long till I've taken all my soul can take

And my soul is refilled and has more love to give?

I do not love the night now

 I do not love the day

The nights when our hearts would softly whisper 

 And love would come to play.

I do not love the dawning

 The joy that day would bring

I cannot hear the music now

I can't make my heart sing.

How long does it take to live again 

And for a human heart to heal?

How long till fantasy fades away

Replaced by something real?

If no answer comes for me and no counsellor I find

If no angel comes down with a miracle and sign

If I was just foolish, perceiving no end or start

May all my records show that I lived even though

And I loved with all of my heart.

©By Voo Shining Stone

written in a dream

and found today scribbled

on a piece of tear stained paper

As If a Dream

 As If A Dream

Softness lay on your hands like clouds in summer

And you touched me like a cherished violin

Eyes so full of sweetness I went drowning

Down to your depths and hurried up again.

Whispered on my neck, your mouth went seeking

And I, enthralled, became your willing muse

Through entwined fingers love came shyly peeking

Forgetting what it was we had to lose.

And there the grass rolled out as if a carpet

And there the sky scrolled back as if a dream

And there the birds of heaven serenaded

And flowers wove a tapestry unseamed.

No song and yet we danced in arms of longing

Delicate and quiet as the dawn

Till midnight fled and we were overtaken

By longing stronger than the strongest storm.

And passion touched my skin like strands of silver

Searing like the lightning in your eyes

Hands, once soft, became as rough as iron

And the bright moon echoed with our lovers' cries.

The joy of love, no poet can describe it

The need of man for woman, who can tell

What else on earth can give a taste of heaven

Take it away and makes you taste of hell?

Here in the night I reach the arms of wanting

I long once more to walk the road of bliss

Touch me with hands of softness and of iron

And dream me back to our first summer's kiss.

©by Voo

June 28, 2007 

2 a.m.

Attaining

Attaining


Sleek, black vehicle
Jaguar fast and moving
Through the night
On rain soaked roads
Shining like glass.

Beautiful.....
Deadly.......
In the hands
Of the careless.

Dark, brown eyes
Seductive, enticing
Sending forth commandments
To come to
Instead of running away from.

Beautiful.......
Deadly.........
To the soul
Of the vulnerable.
　
Wet, welcome storm
Quenching the thirst
Of barren, desperate desert
Not knowing when to stop
Washes away the work of a thousand days.
　
Beautiful.......
Deadly.........
To the very earth
So hungry for the taste.
　
Why must the things we want,
Need, crave, desire,
Delight in, pursue, seek out, and purchase,
Destroy us in the attaining
And kill us in their arms.

　
©by Voo
Feb 10, 2010
10:47 p.m.

Scenes From One of the Sexiest Movies Ever

Scenes From One Of The Sweetest Sexiest Movies Ever

Don Juan DeMarco

Song:

 Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?

Timing Is Everything

Timing Is Everything

Silently, wordlessly.....

I walk behind you in the fog

And wait for you to pause

Long enough for me to catch up.

You stop and look furtively around

Jingling the coins in your pocket

And I see the frown you occasionally wear

When you think of me.

Seeing nothing in the mists,

You walk on, glancing up at the sky

And pulling the trench coat collar

Tighter around your throat.

You stumble over a stone

And utter an indecipherable oath

That I can't quite hear

And it makes me smile.

"Where are you?!" you shout out loud

And kick the stone out into the darkness

"How much more must I endure?" you ask

And I recognize my moment and rush forward.

"I'm right here, mon cher." I whisper

And slip my cold hand into your pocket

And into the warmth of your fingers

As they grasp mine in fear and trembling.

You twirl underneath the dim street lamp

And clouds of fog circle around us and between us

You make motions to disperse the mist

And stand there in stark disbelief and indescribable joy.

"Is it you?" you ask, reaching to touch my face

"Is it really you?" "Tell me it's you and not a dream."

And I back away and look into those eyes

That I have dreamed of melting into for evermore and always.

"It's really me, beloved." I whisper softly

"Can a dream do this?" and I stroke your cheek with my finger tips

"And can a dream do that?" As I run my thumb over the outlines of your mouth

And leave it there upon your lips.

Time is suspended, stands still,

And we both wait to see if this is reality or fiction of the mind

Before we give in to the emotions that run rampant

Over, under, around and through us like mad things beyond control.

"There was a glitch in time." I say, 

"And I slipped through the veil when the time was right."

"Well, timing is everything." you murmur

And push a wayward curl behind my ear.

Somewhere in the distance 

A band begins to play in some elegant ballroom

And the music reaches our ears and swirls around us

And you bow and say, "May I have this dance, Princess?"

I take your hand and the touch of it sends currents through me

Your arm around my back, and we waltz as if on clouds

I cannot take my eyes from yours as we meld in that sweet embrace

Like warm honey spilling from an overturned bowl.

I hear you exhale and I exhale my own breath

Over your shoulder as my pulse runs wild

Tighter you pull me and your grasp is like steel

Yet the pain is delicious because I know you are real.

  ©by Voo

 Dec 28, 2018   

2 days before my birthday