collab
Friday, December 4, 2020
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
When My Fever Breaks...
How strange is this!!!??? Just had a very high fever
break and then I ran across this....
fever ain't no fun unless it's a love fever
and a love fever can kill you. ๐๐๐
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
He's Cool Like That
He’s Cool Like That
Space age sleek skinny shades
No rose-colored glasses here
HD all the way, baby
Clean cut, raw and realistic
That’s the way he likes to see the world……
Fairy tales were always full of lies
Even when he was a child
He didn’t believe in ‘em
Didn’t accept that frogs turned into princes
When pretty girls kissed ‘em.
Didn’t believe in monsters and trolls
Except for the ones
His father said lived down the street
But turned out………..
They were just messed up people with problems.
He’s solid, like mountains are solid,
Like houses on firm foundations,
Like concrete and cement
Mixed with diamond and iron,
And just as determined as a bull seeing red.
He likes graffiti art
The kind you find in subways and stuff,
Or on the side of a dirty wall
That someone tries to make beautiful……..
Something illegal in the eyes of the world.
He likes things that are screwed up
But has the potential to be awesome
Kind of like people he’s met,
Who walk around wounded
But will end up in God’s gallery one day.
At first sight, you might run from him
For he’s big and intimidating
And quiet and intense
But when you get to know him,
You learn pretty fast that it’s just a faรงade.
He likes animals, wild and domestic
Heck, he even has a snake
Who makes itself at home
On top of the microwave
While he makes toast and coffee.
The only thing he’s afraid of
Is…… himself…………….
And opening the door of his heart up
To have it slammed back in his face
But he’s the most transparent guy you ever met.
He writes poetry
That touches your heart
Like a steel-tipped feather,
Like a velvet bullet to your brain
That kills you and heals you all at the same time.
And he’s always looking for something
Not quite sure what it is
But knows it’s out there somewhere
In some dilapidated old building,
Or a can of spray paint or on a wadded-up page.
He’s an open book
But he’s laminated……..
It’s hard to touch him on the surface
But it’s easy to touch him inside
And he cries when nobody’s looking.
He’d make a good Superhero
I don’t know what you’d call him
‘Cause he has so many qualities
But you know he’d do the right thing
(And he’d look pretty good in a cape.)
He loves God like fish love water
He doesn’t cram Him down your throat
But if you open the door, he’ll gladly come in,
Share what God’s done, what He’s gonna do
And even introduce you if that’s what you want.
He walks lonely through a crowd
Looking for the lost and the despairing,
Looking for the treasure
That someone threw away as trash
Seeing unseen beauty in every broken bit.
There’s something noble in a man who can do that
Something righteous………..
In a heart that feels the pain of the world
Something beautiful on the face of the man
Who doesn’t see it’s beauty in the mirror.
He makes you laugh; he makes you cry
He makes you wonder and wish
And think about things you never thought of before
But most of all, he makes you want to be real
Real as he is, cause he’s cool like that.
©by Voo
June 4th, 2011
9:59 p.m.
for Scott
Monday, November 30, 2020
The Man Who Was Afraid of Love
The Man
Who Was Afraid Of Love
I loved a man who was afraid of love
Afraid to let me see inside his heart
Afraid to let me know his inner soul,
Who ended love's attempts before it's start.
I laid my treasures bare before this man
My body, heart and soul, I let him see
I made a secret world where he'd feel safe
But he would never show his soul to me.
He said he could express himself in poetry
But his poetry never gave me much insight
Just question after question after question
And never one true answer came to light.
I tried to see the little boy inside him
I tried to find the hidden man within
I tried to plumb the depths there in his darkness
But in those murky depths I couldn't swim.
I made him laugh, at least I tried
I tried my very best
All my life, I've been known as a funny girl
But he couldn't see my funny side, I guess.
I don't know what more I could have done
For I did try just almost every thing
Gifts and poems and songs and smiles I gave him
Trying to raise a smile and make him sing.
But he would never let me in
Though his heart pleaded for love
And I sought help to help me help
From man and God above.
No answer would he give my questions
No matter how innocent
Vague or banal, no answer at all
I wasted the breath I spent.
Years I knew this mysterious man!
Knew his walk, the way he kissed
The shape of his head, when he went to bed
But I really don't think he exists.
He's a fantasy I made up
From the fantasies he fed me
He couldn't feel and they were not real
(At least in the ways he led me.)
He never asked me what I thought
Just bland generalities
Ignored my interest in his friends and life
And his ghostly family.
While I rambled on and on about mine
Told him stories of my youth
My past, my present, my future dreams
But from him, got little truth.
No single promise did he fulfill
However trivial or deep
He gave me hopes and expectations
But of those, he did not keep.
From daylight to darkness in the blink of an eye
His sweetness would turn into rage
Offended at this, offended at that
And ignoring my love on the page.
I never knew what would set him off
I never knew the right words to say
I walked on eggshells at the end of it all
While his darkness took my sunshine away.
"That man's afraid to love." they told me
"From a distance is the best he can do."
"He can love you in a poem or song,"
But he can Not love you."
And I tried so hard to understand
(For I'm afraid of love myself)
But not so afraid that I won't take a chance
And stop living a life, bereft.
God knows my heart, He knows my soul
He knows the love in me
He put that love in me, Himself
For all the world to see.
But the man I loved could not see love
Nor receive what he longed for
So self destructive, self sabotaging,
In love's face, slammed every door.
I see it all so clearly now
The masks and the charade
Making me think his love was real
In every game he played.
And when the game, could not maintain,
Cruel accusations flew
Blaming me for everything
Knowing none of them were true.
My heart's a walled up city now
To break in, no man would dare
I loved that man so afraid of love
But I no longer care.
©by Voo Shining Stone