I Can't Unlove

 

You Are The Reason
violin

I Can't Unlove 

In my life, I know and I can count

Men I've loved on just one hand

There are those I like and like a lot

And a lot that I can't stand.

But there are not many I can say I've loved

With all of my little girl heart

Because I learned real young that men can be mean

So I cautiously don't allow love to start.

I have run away from and I have run to

But I don't usually stay very long

'Cause most of the loves I thought were so right

Just turned out to be very wrong.

I really don't try to play hard to get

But most guys think that I am

I've just learned to see deep inside of a man

And quickly know if he's worth a damn.

But oh, the few that I have loved

I've loved with all my soul

And I've lived to please them with all of my heart

And make their joy my goal.

There isn't anything I wouldn't do

If I loved a good, sweet man

And I I knew he loved me true right back

And I felt safe in his hands.

I would climb the highest mountain

Swim the deepest sea

I would fight for him till my dying breath

If I knew that he loved me.

That's the kind of woman that I am

And I will be for ever more

But if a man unmasked shows another face

I will show him to the door.

For life's too short and death's too long

To live without true love

And there's no time to waste on Earth

Before you fly above.

But I have learned to live alone

When no true love can be found

It's best to live alone, I think

Than in strife and stress, to drown.

I've got a heart full of poetry

And my soul is filled with romance

And my body burns to love somebody

And to dance love's sweet slow dance.

But if I cannot find the man

That feels the way I feel

I will just live on without a song

If I can't find something real.

But I know there's something real out there

Because I've loved before

And I still love them though they are gone

When those ships crashed on the shore.

I can't unlove the ones I've loved

Though there have been so few

Once I fell in love, my heart still cared

Even when love came anew.

It's just the way I am, I guess

And you must believe it's true

And even though your love has died

I cannot unlove you.

You will be a part of my woman's heart

Till to Heaven my life I'll give

And even then on that golden shore

My love for you will live.

I can count on one hand those I've loved

The sweet and the not so nice

But when I think of you, sweet man

I know I'll count you twice.

©by Voo

May 29, 2019

12:07 a.m.

You Are The Reason




Can't Unlove You

 

I'll Still Be Loving You

 

Baby, I've Been Missing You

 

Tempests

 

 Tempests

Tempests in my soul

Chained over with darkness

Like rivers raging to escape their muddy banks

Clawing their way through sand and stone to daylight.

I feel the intangibles clamor there

To breathe fresh air,

Ride on the backs of wild horses and dance on the hills

Underneath the midnight suns.

They are there and plural they be

Not one tempest, not one intangible

But many fires that blaze and burn

In a forest screaming, full of dead dreams' bones.

But I will not set them free

I will not let them become tangible

For if I do, for if I do, I will live forever in their chains

And men will see me as the thing they cannot bear.

I am like a cauldron full of fear

Stirred by life and death and dread

Long handled spoons held by black-gloved hands

Stirring, stirring, always stirring and laughing in my face.

The light at the end of the tunnel

Is some times an on-coming train

How many times I have walked into it's glare

And been torn to shreds underneath it's steely wheels.

If I do not write these lies

Are they still lies which never shall be read?

Books written far below the earth, still printed

On the minds of nightmare with the ink of darkened blood?

There are tempests here

In my heart and soul, they war

One day white, one day black, one day gray

Colorless things that wear long cloaks of confusion.

Intangible entities and ideas

Yearning to become tangible

In a hopeless world, they dream of crowns of iron

Wanting more than what one soul can give.

They burn, they burn with tongues of icy fire

Freezing souls to death in summer

And wrapped in chains as garments, you cannot run away

Unless you pull them with you as you go.

They tell me there's a lantern shining

Upon a mountain made of gold

But none can see it with human eyes

And none can find it with human hands.

But if you call from desperate depths

You may be heard, you may be heard

And relief may come in your darkest hour like falling rain

But the hands will go on stirring until your life's last breath

.

©By Voo

July 20, 09

11:34 p.m.

My Scariest Writes Ever all links on one page......PART ONE

                                      CLICK on name of Poem to go to the link

 Nightmare

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                                                        SEDUCTION IN PALE GLOW

Green Green Dream of the Guitar

                                                   APPARITION RIVER

                                                             DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU TO ROOM 101

                                                                 I AM THE CROW

HORROR STORY

                                                    STORM ON A NEVER ENDING NIGHT

Let's do the Time Warp again..........