Sometimes At Midnight

Sometimes At Midnight

Sometimes at midnight

When the world is quiet

I hear you calling

 In the night

Sometimes at noon

I hear you say

Come take my hand,

Let's run away

Sometimes at twilight

I think I feel

Your touch so tangible

I think it's real

Sometimes at dawn

I think I see

Contours of you

Lying there with me

Sometimes I hear you

Without a sound

Whispering and making

My love come down

Sometimes I feel

Your lips on mine

Seducing and driving

Me out of my mind

Sometimes I hear you

Sometimes I feel

Sometimes I see you

Just like you're real

But every day I wake

Just to feel the pain

Of finding that you

Aren't here again.

©by Voo

May 4, 2019

midnight 

But We Don't Say Goodbye

 

But We Don't Say Goodbye

We've said a lot of things, we two

Like , 'I am so happy that I found you

Like,  you are my moon, my stars and sun

My life, my love, my only one.'

We've laughed in pain,

We've cried for joy

We've been transparent

Been shy and coy.

We've reeled love in

And gave it slack

We've run away

And then ran back.

We've fought like lions,

Cooed like a dove

Laid down our lives

For each other's love.

No matter the circumstance,

No matter the cause

We've held to the victories,

Dismissing the loss.

We've written the poetry

That brought forth the sighs

Embraced like true lovers

With tears in our eyes.

Said 'I love you forever'

Said 'I hate you right now'

Said 'I might live without you'

But I cannot see how.'

We've walked through the thunder

Hand in hand, holding fast

Danced in moonlight at midnight

Long as moonlight would last.

Been through so much, we two, together

Will go through more before we die

We say such things and some we shouldn't

But you and I don't say goodbye.

©by Voo Shining Stone

Oct 24, 2020

7:17 p.m.

Alone In The Dark

 

Alone In The Dark

Alone in the dark, tonight I stand

A lost and lonely, broken man

Seeking for a hand to hold

Seeking a mending of my soul.

I turn that way and I turn this

Yearning for a devouring kiss

Craving for a sweet caress

To calm the storming in my chest.

It hurts, the wounding that I feel

When my eyes saw love was not real

Just an illusion, a butterfly

A glimpse in the corner of my eye.

That touched me with a smile so fair

And left me bewildered, standing there

Not knowing right, not knowing wrong

But hearing snippets of your song.

The song, I know, you wrote for me

Beneath the weeping willow tree

When our eyes met and our hearts clove

And my soul knew I'd found my love.

And I held to that lovely prize

That I thought lived there in your eyes

But, alas, that gift was not to be

When you took that love away from me.

 

And here I stand in the dark alone

Still not accepting that you're gone

Not accepting the pain or the cut of the lies

That ripped me to ribbons with the cold of your eyes.

I stand here alone in the dark  by myself

Wondering if there is any love left

But all I feel are teardrops rolling down off my face

And of your beautiful love song, I hear only a trace.

And the sound of your laughter in the cold midnight breeze

Ever the temptress, ever the tease

You don't know what love is, you don't have a clue

How to love me in earnest but you know I love you.

So I wait in the cold as the snow's falling down

And it molds to my form and I freeze to the ground

Just a sad frozen sight, a heartbroken snow man

With his eyes full of tears, and his bare outstretched hands.

Reaching to you who cannot reach for me

Looking for you who will not look at me

Living and loving  but loving unknown

Crying and dying in the dark all alone.

©by Voo Shining Stone

Oct 23, 2020

On The Wind

 

On The Wind

I left some words out on the wind

A whispered prayer, and said "amen"

I spoke into my hands and sighed

And then released them to the sky.

I saw your face there in the moon

For just a moment and none too soon

All day I'd hungered for your smile

To come and warm me for awhile.

I heard the voices in the trees

I felt the soft, sweet touch of breeze

It touched my hair, it touched my cheek

I was so moved, I couldn't speak.

Leaning back upon my  door

My heart was full but needed more

The day was done, the night was long

My ears were longing for your song.

Do you not see? Do you not know?

My heart's with you wherever you go

A hundred lifetimes, a hundred ages

You're written here on my life's pages.

How my soul yearns, my body burns

Do you not feel me? Do you discern?

I need to hold you. I need to say

The words to make you come and stay.

Morning comes with rain and still I stand

Holding lonely in my hand

My words are out there flying free

Listen, my love. Can't you hear me?

©by Voo    Sept 1, 08

12:52 a.m.

Sweet Baby

My Very Favorite Prince Song

 

"Sweet Baby"

"You want to be my sweet baby?"
You asked shyly
And I hung my head 
And nodded
Because I was shy, too

And that was how it started,
How it began
With me and you
Slowly and shyly
And oh, so sweetly.

When I feel sad or down
I think of that day
When you called me "Sweet baby"
For the first time
And I always smile.

For I had waited for ever
For someone to notice me
And talk to me
And learn how sweet I could be.

For someone to walk with me
And hold my hand
And look into my eyes
Like they could see into my soul.

But everyone just passed me by
Like I was invisible
And never said a word
And every day I just got lonelier
And lonelier.

Till I saw you
Standing there alone yourself
Looking like you didn't have nothing
And nobody
And no where to go.

And I waited and waited
And I prayed and prayed
That you would look my way
But you never did
So I took matters into my own hands.

I marched right over 
To where you were leaning against the store
And I went right up to you
Like I had good sense
And I said, "Hello."

And you jumped out of your skin
And said, "Who, me?"
And I said, "I don't see nobody else here."
And you stood there very quietly
For about five very long minutes.

"I'm sorry." you finally said
"But I've been watching you every day
Since I moved to this town
And I thought you were the prettiest girl
I had ever seen in my life!"

"I can't believe you're speaking to me
Or that you even knew I was alive
So I guess it scared me too death
When you came over and said hello
'Cause I was just standing here dreaming."

And that is how I learned that boys
Are strange but then so are girls
For we have no idea that anyone feels
The way we do or dreams the dreams we do
Because we are too afraid to ask.

And we became inseparable
From that day to this
And we walked and we talked
And we learned all about one another
And found out how much we were alike.

Then one day you had to go out of town
For the summer
And you didn't want to go and I didn't want you to
And we stood there at the bus station
With tears in our eyes like big ole babies.

That's when you called me your sweet baby
And I told you I would wait for you
And write you every day if you wanted me to
And that I would miss you with all my heart
And you gave me that necklace with the heart on it.

That was the longest three months of my life
And I know it was hard for you too
But sometimes it's good to be apart
Because then you learn just how much
You love somebody.

My mama teased me all summer
And asked me why I was moping around
"Over that lil ole boy"
And telling me I needed to take off that necklace
At least when I took a bath.

But I wouldn't do it and I wouldn't let go of it
I held onto it with all my soul
And I was holding onto it when you came back home
But what I didn't know was that you had left a boy
And you stepped off that old bus, a man.

"How's my sweet baby?" you called
And pulled me into your arms
Like somebody drowning holds onto a life raft
And I hung my head and said, "I'm fine"
"Just fine."

Then in a renewed burst of courage I grabbed you
And gave you the biggest kiss that anybody had ever
Gotten in the history of kissing
And the gawkers and shoppers let out shocked gasps
But I didn't care and I kissed you again.

And I turned around 
And my mama was standing there by the car
And I thought she was gonna kill me
Or ground me for a hundred years
 But she had the most amazed expression on her face
And to my ever lasting surprise she just looked at me
And she said, "You go, girl."


©by Voo
Jan 16, 2019
3:49 a.m.