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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

I Followed The Moon



The Heart Within
by Peter Gundry



I Followed The Moon



I followed the moon to find you
For the moon knew where you did abide
In a forest of green that was hidden, unseen
With no door to let me come inside.

Your feet left no tracks on the soft grass
I could not follow you on the trail
I could not discern for I had not yet learned
All the secrets that you kept so well.

You came to me in shadow one bright night
When I was there weeping alone
Lying in a field of moon flowers
With a young heart that felt made out of stone.

All of my life I'd felt lonely
And thought that I always would be
Except for the man in the moon, my one friend
(For I thought that the moon followed me.)

And you sang to me while I did sleep
Lying on that ground
You caressed my face with tender grace
And then left without a sound.

I looked for you long after that
And called for you to hear
But though I could not see your form
I felt that you were near.

Sometimes I heard you singing softly
In the whispers of the leaves
Sometimes I saw you clear as day
In the branches of the trees.

At night I dreamed of your bright eyes
Watching in my room
But when I opened up my own,
Saw nothing but the moon.

Sometimes I felt you touching me
Kneeling by my bed
Raising my face for your kiss
Your hand upon my head.

Sometimes you did much more than touch
Sometimes you deemed to linger
And wrapped me in your arms so tight
And round your little finger.

And I began to crave that touch
And hunger for that bliss
And I became a woman, lost
With each beguiling kiss.

For many nights you did not come
Not even in a dream
And I went mad with wanting you
And holding back my scream.

And then one night with second sight
I knew where you might be found
I slipped out of my window
While the moonlight lit the ground.

And I followed the moon as it hurried ahead
In the sky toward the forest so dark
Ignoring the danger, the beast and the stranger
As the hunger led me by the heart.

I followed the moon to find you
Not knowing if man or a ghost
Awaited me there in the green forest lair
Nor if you'd be a welcoming host.

And when the moon had come to rest
I stopped underneath it's glow
Wondering if I'd lost my mind
Because I didn't know.

If you were real or phantom
If you were myth or man
And I cried and cried there in the dark
Until you took my hand.

'You came to me!" you softly breathed
"Your love has set me free!
The curse is reversed and broken
Because you came to me!"

And you covered my face in kisses
And looked into my eyes so deep
"Until tonight I could only touch you
There in the world of sleep."

"Your love has given me flesh and form!"
You cried with human tears
"You do not know how long I've waited
For all these lonely years."

"I followed the moon to find you." I said
"With my heart full of doubt and of doom 
But is this tale of yours true, my love, who are you?"
And you smiled, "I was the man in the moon."




©By Voo
October 2, 2019
2:38 p.m.




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Sunday, June 30, 2024

DREAM LOVERS




Dream Lovers


You were my dream lover
And you loved me in my dreams
But we could not hold onto that
In reality it seems.

For love here in reality
Is a hard, hard game to play
And people run away from love
And almost never stay.

And I don't know why that is so
Or why it's always been
It's almost like true love's a crime
And wanting it's a sin.

People using people
Is now societal norm
Discarding them when they're of no use
From the moment they are born.

And yet inside each human heart
Is the burning need to know
The touch of love, not knowing that
Love needs our love to grow.

So people hide in shadows
And lurk at love's closed doors
Watching for love to greet us
With welcome mats upon it's floors.

But rarely does that closed door open
No matter how long you wait
For love's as frightened of you out there
As you're scared of it's fate.

And most of us, from youth to aged
Sit in darkened rooms alone
In a house that we have built ourselves
That will never be a home.

We live in a virtual reality
That will never be a fact
Clinging to CGI people on screens
That will never love us back.

I don't think God made the world this way
Nor did He desire us thus
To live in lonely isolation
With no happiness or trust.

He made us to need one another
He made us need things others have got
He made us to share the uniqueness we have
With other sad seeking souls that have not.

But you and I, we never met
On this lonely, orbiting rock
We waited inside our own closed doors
On which love just would not knock.

Instead we dreamed ourselves a love
That visited at night
And who loved and lived in astral realms
But at dawn, kept out of sight.

And that sufficed for a span of time
But never truly satisfied
The hungry hearts inside of us
Who screamed at us and cried.

For something real that they could feel
To hold there in our hand
Not fiction, fantasy or film
But a real woman, a real man.

But we held on to what we'd found
Just as passionately as we could
For fantasy was all we had
And that dream world was safe and good.

Until the day came that we awoke
And could never sleep again
Till we embraced reality
And took it's hated hand.

And it led us out into the sun
And showed us skies above
Showed us life and all it's woes
And told us to look for love.

Not love in fairy story books,
Not love on movie reels
Not love in songs that just end wrong
But love that hurts and heals.

So we walked away from dreamland
Into the waiting arms of others
Who've longed for flesh and blood love to come
And take the place of their dream lovers.

And though we may not ever meet
And it may not ever seem
That we were true, I did love you
In that world that was our dream.


                                                                

 ©By Voo
July 22, 2019
10:15 p.m.






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