Love Was Our Alibi....a true fable for the ages

 

LOVE WAS OUR ALIBI (a true fable for the ages)

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 ended now and gone

And once again our humble 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 at us and sighed

They acknowledged we were guiltless

And moved by that, they cried

Our crimes were thrown forgotten

Into 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 done on this earth

Beneath His blue 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 'crime'

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 his eye

And he will not accept love

As your 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's freed you thus

So, come take our hands

And run there now 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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We Became Strangers

 

We Became Strangers

If I knew the reasons

I wouldn't be writing this poem

I'd be writing love songs

And publishing them up in a tome

If I knew the wherefores

I'd be fixing them all everyday

If I knew the whys

I'd know how to make your love stay

If I knew the answers

I'd lock all the questions up tight

If I saw this day coming

I'd chain the day up in the night

But I never saw it

And I never questioned your whys

Nor conceded your wherefores

Nor answered your questions with lies

But the day is now here

And I'm watching my life walk away

And I'm begging inside

But my lips have no words left to say

I thought we were lovers

And lovers forever till death

But all of your love died

As you exhaled that love out in your breath

It is my fault, I know that now

Just like I knew it when

You asked me to be true to you

And not look at other men

But I was greedy and I was wrong

And I gave my love away

For I was lonely and I needed you

And you were always away

Then in the process of our lives

Our hearts gave up and cried

And all the sweetness of our love

Just laid down and it died

And now we're strangers just as surely

As though we'd never met

Even though our hearts still feel

And our hearts can't forget

You turn and wave and I wave back

As tears roll down my face

You board the plane and fly away

And leave a lonely place

It's cold here in our empty bed

It's cold inside of me

Why couldn't we learn as we went

Why couldn't our eyes see?

It is too late, it's just too late

I whisper to myself

We've used up all the love we had

And there is no love left

I lie and cry and hate myself

I hate what I've become

I wish I'd had more time with you

To make this house a home

But you are gone now far away

Away from heartache's dangers

And I am here to think about

How lovers became strangers

If only I......I cry out loud

Had listened to your heart sing

But I never heard and then it stopped

And you took off your ring

Now it's too late, you've lost your song

You'll find some other ears

And she will love you like I could not

While I drown in my tears

In my confusion and my grief

I do not hear the clock

I do not hear a car door slam

I do not hear the knock

And you are there in my doorway

You've set off the alarms

But I don't care for up I fly 

And you take me in your arms

I can't leave you, you say to me

For what would this world be

If you were not here in my life

What good would living be?

My love, my love, I say to you

I pray forgive my sin

And forgive mine, you say to me

And we fall in love again

This time we'll do things differently

We vow to one another

And I hear your heart sing out to me

As two strangers become new lovers

Oh, love it is a precious thing

Guard it night and day

Don't let it cry and fade and die

And don't let it walk away

Who knows if it will dare return

To the place it felt alone

Who knows if it will see it's truth

And find it's way back home

©by Voo

January 30, 2019

4:58 a.m.

Your Sweetness

 Your Sweetness

.

The sweetness of the honeycomb
Belongs to you and you alone
The ribbons in the purpled sky
Draw from the flashes of your eyes
The fragrance of the love you give
It makes me long and love to live
The passion of the quickening vein
Makes me both mad and yet so sane
The wildness of the joy within
Is blessed with sacred, touched with sin
The hungry mouth, the thirsting lips
The undulating dancing hips
The feet that bring you close to me
Take you away, too far to see
And yet the tears upon my face
Your tender fingertips erase
With each new breath, resuscitate
My ebbing flow, impending fate
Give back to me the meaning of
My need to be, my life, my love
You are the maestro of every band
The world's director with your hand
The writer of each song you choose
Each line of poetry and it's muse
You are my waking and my sleep
Wading shallow to dig for deep
The discovering scientist, the conqueror, bold
The alchemist that makes the gold
The royalty upon the throne
That reigns this heart once made of stone
This heart now pliable in your care
That feels the love that wasn't there
That knows the difference of lie and true
Now that I know.... the truly you
My Atlas, lifter of my head
When once I thought all my dreams dead
The bright sunshine with taste of night
The darkness dancing with the light
The musical laugh, the mischievous hint
That rarely discloses the secret intent
But teases without mercy as you're feigning such meekness
And drowns me in love in your oceans of sweetness.

.

©by Voo

11/10/19

3:56 a.m.
You are the sweetness and the joy...........

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