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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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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