Nothing Else Matters

 

The Evanescence of Love In The Year 2020

 

The Evanescence of Love

 In The Year 2020

Ethereal, though it was

In every way

Every day, it became

More and more eternal in it's scope

Everlasting, as it were

Even to the eyes of everyone else.

I admit, in terms of eternity

Few things last, most expire

In the exhalation of a breath

Or the exploration of the unknown

Everything but true love

Especially true love

Whatever that might be in terms of explanation.

But I saw in your expressive eyes

The ephemeral asking to become more permanent,

More tangible, more set in stone,

More inexhaustible and undeniable

And I stopped where I stood

And pondered upon the matter, expressed by your eyes

Yet unspoken by your mouth.

But upon the taking of my lips by yours,

All doubt fled away

And in your eager embrace

I found an earnestness and existence I had not known

But had extensively sought all my days.

The clouds eavesdropped upon us

And the sun smiled effervescently

Dropping sunshine like raindrops

On our enchanted faces

As love enveloped us, enclosed us, in it's arms.

And thus, we existed in this happy place,

This eloquent place, this place of elation,

Electric kisses and unexpected bliss

Looking forward to the expanding horizons

That predicted and predicated no earthly ending.

But alas! The unforseen arose

With storm filled skies and thunder in the air

And things that had been solid before

Seemed liquid now

Seemed to be inconstant and indefinable

No longer eternal but temporal.

For even the Earth is a temporary thing

If you think about it

Volcanoes and earthquakes can burn it to ash

And crush it to dust

Bodies can die and spirits, vacate.

But oh, the shock of losing love!

Having something seemingly solid

Turn back to ethereal wishes of the mind, 

No longer even ephemeral......

But merely evanescent, fleeting,

Like the glimpse of a rainbow in the mist

And the extinguishing of a dream

In the blink of an eye

Evanescent.

My Immortal by Evanescence

violib cover by Lindsay Stirling

©By  Voo Shining Stone

Aug 21, 2020

11 p.m.

You Don't Know What Love Is

 

You Don't Know What Love Is

You don't know what pain is

Till your heart's been sliced in two

You don't know what tears are

Till it's turned your brown eyes blue

You don't know how rain stings

Till it's rained inside your heart

You don't know how wholeness feels

Till your soul's been ripped apart.

You don't know, will never know

How my love cries out to you

You, who left me easily

And never loved me true.

You don't know the sunshine

For you never liked the day

You only liked the midnight

When your love came out to play

Look at me. Look at me, boy!

See the heartbreak in my eyes

See the longings I still have for you

Though you only gave me lies

If I could hear just one sweet word

It would mend my heart, I think

But our love was like the Titanic

Doomed, destined to sink

You look at me and wink your eye

Like it's all a silly game

You say you miss me and mentally thumb

Your black book for my number and name

"Oh, sweet girl!" you say and give me a whirl

In the rain on the street by the tree

Where our lips first touched and I loved you so much

When you carved that big heart there for me

And I think of the day when like school children at play

We yelled "She's my love and I am just his!"!

But to a scoundrel you turned and my heart crashed and burned

Realizing that you don't know what love is.

©by Voo Shining Stone

1/2021

Dark Corridor

Dark Corridor

Walking down the long dark corridor

That is my life

So pitch black I can barely see

My past, let alone my future

I feel my way along the walls

Touch the crooked framed photographs

Hanging there, attempt to straighten them

And then stop; the effort is too much.

Where is that famous corner

I’ve heard so much about?

The one that everything wonderful

Is just around? The one you’re never

Supposed to give up on because

Just around that proverbial corner

It’s always Christmas and the presents

Are already unwrapped.

I’ve never found that corner

And I’ve almost stopped looking

I’m so used now to stumbling in the dark

Feeling my way along these walls

Touching the scant happy memories

Spaced apart like seasons, always askew

Always off, like the segments in a dream

That you want to hold onto after waking.

Once, a light tore it’s way through unexpectedly

And it almost blinded me

I don’t know where it came from

I’ve never known where it came from

And to this day I cherish the gift of it

Even though it was soon taken away

And the darkness seemed even darker then

Than it had before.

The light had been love

And the love had been light

And it had shone on me and lit me from within

And made me beautiful

For the short time that I stood there in it’s glow

Then it faded away and left me with these pictures

Framed memories, really, that I can no longer see

But only feel as I make my way haltingly

Down the corridor that is my life.

©by  Voo

July 31, 07

midnight

The Man That You Are

The Man That You Are

I don't know how to tell you this

Or even how to start

My mind is telling me to stop

So I'll listen to my heart.

You inserted yourself into my life

In a quiet, friendly way

Encouraging me to think more of myself

And adding some cheer to my day.

I didn't quite know what to think of you

You were different from all other men

So encouraging and kind with a deep profound mind

Looking forward and not where you'd been.

You seemed to be a wise man

And loyal, sweet and true

You broke down my walls of  dark mistrust

And became my own "Guru."

But though I know you by your spirit

Mysterious you have remained

And I have come to this conclusion

That life minus you would just not be the same.

With you, I became my truest self

And not the woman I portray

To friends and family and fans

And passers-by throughout my day.

With you, I let my heart run free

Let down my hair and bare my soul

My wild and crazy, loving heart

That you make me feel is made of gold.

I like the me you saw in me

Unlike the me I always felt

Was inferior and nothing special

And doomed to play the cards life dealt.

I've seen your face a thousand times

On internet and laptop screens

That little "Mona Lisa" smile

That haunts me even in my dreams.

And I've done things with you in dreams

That I haven't done as yet for real

 Because you've taught me to let go

And go with what I want to feel.

I've been so shut off from the world

From life in general and from myself

Compartmentalized all parts of me

Till I didn't know what parts were left.

You took a frightened little girl

Who hid in books and poems and prose

And brought the woman out in me

That blossomed like your red, red rose.

And though I may not ever see

You near me as you dwell so far

I want to tell you here and now

That I love you for the man you are.

And the man you are is wonderful

And the man you are is great

And the man you are is heaven-sent

And so worth a long, long wait.

I don't know how I know you

I just know I've always known

And that when I first looked in your eyes

My heart felt it was home.

I know I shouldn't tell you this

I think you'll be quite caught off guard

But I have to tell you how I feel

Which for me, is very hard.

But I hope you take these words to heart

And know you are my shining star

And where ever you go in this life, you'll know

That I really do love the man that you are.

©by Voo

February 13, 2019

10:53 p.m.