The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: GAINS AND LOSSES

The Blue Vineyard Of Voo Shining Stone: GAINS AND LOSSES: Gains and Losses In the game of life, we lose a lot Much more than we gain And spend half our time out of our minds An...

Teach Me To Love

 

Teach Me To Love 

I know a lot about a lot of things

And a bit about a few

But all I really want to know 

Is how to find a love that's true.

I'm very highly educated

And most definitely well read

But all I want is to get in my heart

What's always been in my head.

They say I am a pretty girl

And intelligent and fun

So why can't I with all my gifts

Find my one and only one?

I don't think that I am all that shy

Nor am I all that bold

But I'd do anything to find

True love before I'm old.

'Cause life without the song of love

Is just not life at all

There is no reason to have a voice

If no one hears you call.

I see so many couples

Walking hand in hand

Happy women smiling at

Their happy smiling man.

But love just passes by my heart

Like I'm not even there

As lovers lie and make me cry

And prove that they don't care.

I do not know what I do wrong

Or what love wants of me

There's something there that I can't hear

And something I can't see.

Maybe love wants no part of me

And maybe love I'll never find

But  if I had a teacher to teach me to love

Maybe I could make it mine.

It's worth a shot, what have I got

To lose but a broken heart?

I've got to stop this giving up

Before I even start.

I've got so much inside of me

To give to someone else

I've saved up love all of my life

But lived loveless and bereft.

I know I can make someone happy

And I would treat them right

So I'm here to sign up for your course

Can you teach me tonight?

I'll be a willing student

For you know of love's sweet charms

 And I'm here to learn how to make love come

And hold it in my arms.

I'll got a home here in my heart

For love to live and stay

And I'll gladly give it to the one

Who won't throw that love away.

©By Voo

July 7, 2019

7:14 p.m.

The Great Scheme of Things

The Great Scheme of Things

Words don't fail him but sometimes thoughts

Are suspended in his head like helium balloons

Full of ideas, hopes, wishes, prayers

They pop in out of the ethereal

Out of the indigo blue and with a certainty

That almost frightens.

The world speaks to him in quiet voices

Unknown tongues that are somehow familiar

Pleas rise up to his ears from the forests

The green grass calls his name

As though he were a friend

And the rivers pay respect.

This land he exists in, survives in, lives in

Is a precious commodity to his soul

Sometimes it's easy to forget

With all the clamoring chatter of technology

Just where you came from

Until clear reality slaps you in the face.

But in his dreams, he sees the new born mountains

Hears the eagle's cry and rushing waters

Feels the breath of morning wind

Wash his face as innocent

As his beloved baby boy

And he remembers what is real.

Education is a wonderful thing, he thinks

But what really matters

Is the freedom to think in the silence of peace

Turn off the world, turn off the phone, turn off the news

And bask in the wonder of a rainbow filled sky

To gather his family in the ark of his arms.

The world has come so far!

And has so far to go!

He wonders if he'll see it come to it's fruition

Whatever that may be.........

But in the meantime, there are plans to be made

Work to be done, bridges to build.

Friends to be met, songs to be sung

Poetry to be written and dreams to be dreamed

What really matters cannot be found within four walls

Inside a box of computer chips, cell phones, fibre optics

Virtual reality, nanotechnology, holograms and milligrams

In the great scheme of things, those things matter little.

He knows what matters

He sees it in his children's faces

The smile on the lips of his wife

The giggles, the fun, the yelp of the dog

The laughter that makes the sun

At the end of a rainy day.

Life is hard

But life

Can be beautiful

If you make it so

And he makes it so

He makes it so.

          

©By Voo

September 23, 07

For Professor Lance Strate

As promised.

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