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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