On The Other Side of The Other Side

On The Other Side of the Other Side

Out there in the cold gray dawn

I see you in the mist

Your face so sad and vulnerable

Needing to be kissed.

I cannot bear to see it

I cannot bear to feel

And yet I do not really know

If it is false or real.

You raise your hopeful eyes to me

A tear runs down your face

You plead with me yet silently

To all your fears, erase.

And I don't know the way to go

To make you smile again

Two lovers, we, so wild and free

That started out as friends.

Then love stepped in and pulled us

Down to love's dark depths

So star-crossed, we, so love starved, we

Needing love, despaired, bereft.

And the more we loved, the more we wanted

The more it slipped our grasp

And futures bright bade us goodnight

And slipped into our past.

What good is love if it can't live

Within the present time?

What good is love if it can't exist

Outside the tortured mind?

I ache to hold you desperately

In my two arms so tight

To bid you stay here in the day

And banish the lonely night.

But wishes are only wishes

And hope is just a yen

And yearning is just a dream undreamed

Of what might have, could have been.

I see you in the mist of dawn

Your head bowed on your chest

Waiting for me to come to you

And give your soul a rest.

But here between the two of us

There stands an invisible door

'Twixt tangible and ethereal

And it won't open any more.

I've tried to break it down with tears

I've tried a hammer's pounding

But the hammer bounced back in my hand

And in my tears I just fell, drowning.

I watch you in that mirror now

There on on the other side

Waiting to see if you can find the key

To the place where I reside.

What cruel, cruel fate, the two of us

Have been assigned and yet

We're sentenced to recall the rise and fall

And the love we can't forget.

My love, I know you hear me

There on your side of this

Unhappy world where boy and girl

Were wedded with one kiss.

Then torn apart with breaking hearts

To exist in the world alone

Watching one another fade

Till the two of us are gone.

©by Voo

for the man that faded into the mist

9/09/19

2:29 p.m.

The Wrong Road To The Right Place

The Wrong Road To The Right Place

Whistlin' in the dark

As I traverse this here dark road

This road that ain't found on no road map

Nor on no piece of paper

Nor drawn on a napkin by a "greasy spoon" waitress.

No, this road don't rightly take you no wheres

Didn't start no wheres and who but God 

                      Knows where it ends..................

I don't. Or I didn't.

I just closed my eyes as I stood there

At the fork in the road and threw a stolen rose

Over my left shoulder

                 And it fell to the right............

And that is how I ended up

        On this here dusty road tryin' to get to Heaven......

Honk HONK!!!! Get out  of the road, you OLD fool!!!!

(Some kid feeling his oats in his daddy's car, I reckon)

NO.....some wanna-be gangster boy from up North

wantin' to mess with somebody out here on these back roads.....

What am I lookin' for?

    You tell me........boy!

You're the Son of A Gun askin' the questions!

I didn't ask you nothin'

And I reckon that's what I 'll get.....

Story of my life.....Always nothin'!.

The Bible says: You have NOT

  'Cause you ASK not............

But I don't know what to ask fer

(I don't want to get...smited) (SMOTED?) Kilt...

Lord, I don't know....God always uses such BIG words...

My brain can't hardly ascertain the little ones

Like thee and Thou and How Now Brown Cow....

Oh, wait! That ain't scripture, is it? Or is it?

Shoot! I don't know nothin. I'm half heathen, I guess

But I AIM to make HEAVEN my HOME!

WHERE AM I GOING?

   you just full of questions, ain't ye???

Dang fool Yankee!!! (sotto voce)

You don't hear me goin' off half cocked

Askin' you jack! 

                  Mostly, 'cause I don't care

And secondly, 'Cause I don't CARE!

I got enough problems fer the both of us 

                     Plus everbody in WhyNot, Mississippi  

Damn! I sure could use me a good ole cold drink!

You got a RC cola on ye? Or an Orange Crush?

Pepsi???! Damn, son, we don't drink no Pepsi down here!

Might as well drank swamp water......Pepsi!!!!!  Goll durn...

Hey!! HEY!!!  No use gittin' all riled up about it!!!

What you doin', boy???? CALM THE HELL BACK DOWN!!!

What a little feller like you doin' with a BIG ole GUN like that???

Naw, I ain't gonna be quiet! Naw, hell naw! Didn't yore Pa told ye

Not to point no PISTOL at nobody lest you aim to....to.....

No..............I can't help ye with no gas money....

I ain't got no Money, son! If I did, you thank I'd be out here

 hitching in this here hot sun tryin' to find my way to Heaven? 

                                    Nooo...not that HEAVEN.......!!!

Heaven, Alabama. Where the purtiest girl in the Whole WORLD live!

You got a girl, son? Anybody on Earth love your sorry ass?

No..no..I didn't mean nothin.....Just talkin'. 

No need to get all bent outta shape.........

I done tole you I ain't got no Money! I can't give you Nothin'  but ADVICE!

C'mon, man......Don't do me that a way...I ain't lying'. I try not to lie......much...

I wants to go to HEAVEN one day. (I just don't Want to go right NOW....

you know what I'm sayin?)                Quit that now! That hurts!!!

No need to kick a man when he down!!! Lord, have Mercy!!!  Here...Here..

 I got a five dollar bill here in my shoe...You can have THAT. Just don't hurt me. 

No...I ain't got no MORE...

I ain't got nothin' but some Juicy Fruit gum I'm saving fer supper.

What??? 

You gonna take that too? Well, if that ain't a damn cryin' shame...! 

 I bet yore Mama sure would be proud of you 'bout right now, wouldn't she????

No, no, not trying to talk about yore Mama! Not meaning no 

Dis Respect to nobody.... let me go now, boy..I gots to git on down this here road

fore it gits too DARK to see...LET ME GO NOW!!!! Dadblame yore hide!!!

No, I won't tell noBody...I promise.  I won't report you to no POLICE... I won't TELL,

I swear to GOD....let me go NOW.....I won't.......

                                                      BANG!!!!

LORD GOD, son!!! You didn't have to do THAT!!! Why You want to KILL some old

NOBoDY like me???? I didn't mean you no harm....here, take this JUICY FRUIT.

Take it! You wanted it a minute ago! Here, boy.......

A little blood won't hurt ye.... I don't need no gum where I'm goin'...

                                           Where am I Going?????              

WHY.....Heaven, Alabama, OF COURSE!!!! Where my girl at....She waitin' on me down there.

She been WAITIN' a long TIME.  She love me, she says last time I seen her. 

I love her too, I shorely do!  Hot damn! She gonna be happy to see my ole raggedy butt!!!  Hee Hee

LORD..it shore is Bright out heres. I can't hardly SEE, it so BRIGHT. 

What's goin' on here? I feel like I'm fadin'.....jest fadin' away....

         right here in this dirt with the Sun in my eyes.......

Where you goin', BOY???? Come back here!!!! Why you runnin???? 

THEM ain't nothin' but angels.....

 Them ain't nothin' but.......................ANGELS....????!!!!!   Lord God....

Come to thank about it...I thank that ole rose fell to the LEFT! 

I should a done took that OTHER ROAD.................................

         I don't thank this 'un is goin' to Alabama..........

                                                      no, sir....not to no Alabama.........

                                     Not to no Heaven...........Alabama.....
                             Not to no...........................................................no

©By Voo Shining Stone

August  16, 2019

4:22 a.m.

copyrighted

Tears Have Been My Companions

Tears Have Been My Companions 

Lost years had shadowed me so long

I couldn't see the sun

I couldn't find the strength to crawl

Never mind to run.......

I looked in the mirror and every day

A stranger looked back there at me

She covered my eyes and filled me with lies

And pure darkness was all I could see........

What hope that I found was found in the sound

Of the music that played in the world

And when it died, I died inside

A lost and lonely girl..........

I didn't know just who I was

I didn't know my name

The more I changed and tried to fit

The more things stayed the same.........

Putting on the costumes

They gave me for the parts

I read my lines and took my bows

With the other broken hearts.........

Crying in the mid of night

My pillow stained and torn

From screaming questions out of fright

And torment hard to be borne..........

I lived in fear. I lived with tears

My life was filled with grief

I laughed and played my parts so well

But tears were my relief........

And now, but now, I've found myself

The true me, after all

The building that I thought I was

I watched it burn and fall...........

And tears are still my companions

Though not instruments for fear to employ

To my great surprise, when Love touched my eyes

Those same tears filled my eyes with joy.

by Voo

Oct 7, 2006

4:30 p.m.

copyrighted

words by Voo, melody by Linda Rose
song by Spirit Song 

Flip The Switch

 CLICK!!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                                                                      Start Music..... .. . .. .Go insane...........er...
                                                                                             Go insaner.  

                                                                                     

                                                                                                                 scroll slowly till song really starts

Darn that Voo!! uh! Darn that Voo! Oh!
She makes me CRAZY!!! Ow!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                The Last Guy That Messed 
                                                                                                     With Voo...
                                                                               film at 11

                                                                             

                                                                                                        The Mythic Voo by
                                                                                   William Shockspeare 
                                                                                 published  August 91, 2029 

                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Calling Your Name

Calling Your Name

(I stood alone calling your name

The clouds hid the sunlight and made way for the rain

Your name echoed back off the hills unto me

And my sad lonely shadow was all I could see.)

I'd sought you all of my life

Since I was but a child

I knew you were out there in the world

Somewhere in the wild.

For my dreams gave me glimpses

That my eyes couldn't see

And I knew that you existed

And were looking for me.

But my life took it's turns

Just as all lives, they do

And it distanced and detoured me

From the finding of you.

I met other lovers

I married and left

Two lovers who broke me

And left me bereft.

And I gave up on love

I gave up on life

For who needs a love

That's imprisoned in strife?

But my dreams never left me

They stayed buried, asleep

Laying stagnant and hidden

In my heart, oh, so deep.

And one day to my surprise

To my shock and my awe

My dreams were revived

By the face that I saw.

And the face was your face

A face I had known

In a dream, in a place

In a world of our own.

Where we walked hand in hand

As we walked through the world

Watching ages pass by us

As our dream lives unfurled.

Oh, and we were so happy

To just be we two

For I knew you loved me

And how much I loved you.

And I was your love
And you were my sweet boy
And our days and our nights
Were filled with pure joy.

But what we didn't know

Till much passage of time

That only in that dream world

Could you really be mine.

Till the Fates co-conspired

With the Heavenly plan

And allowed this sad woman

To once again find that man.

We had always had hope

That someday, and somehow

Our two dreams would collide

In the here and the now.

And they did in the last place

That we ever had thought

Stumbling there upon the one thing

That we always had sought.

What a mystery and joy!

What a sweetness divine

For my heart still was yours

And your heart was still mine.

And our souls meshed together

And our bodies belonged

Just as sure as a melody

With the words of a song.

But what cruel turn of fate

Like the changing of weather

Once again we are parted

And cannot be together.

And I call out your name

Like a prayer on the wind

Wondering how long it will be

Till I'm with you again.

For even a dream 

Will eventually die

And the reflection of your face

Will fade from my eye.

But my heart won't forget

When I take my last breath

That it loves you with a love

That is stronger than death.

 I'm calling your name again now

My sweet boy, my dear

Hoping this time you'll answer

And say Yes love, I'm here.

©By Voo

Oct 7, 2019

12:16 a.m.