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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Lucy Had A Lover

 



Lucy Had A Lover


 
Lucy had a lover
Every day till noon
They met at dawn and carried on,
Wrote songs about the moon.


Lucy had a lover
A tender, sweetie pie
He chased her 'round the bed and chair
And never made her cry.


Lucy had a lover
With eyes as dark as coal
He was her man, she had a plan
And marriage was her goal.

Lucy had a lover
Such depths he took her to
Up to the skies with passion's cries
His love was strong and true.

Lucy had a lover
But one day he didn't show
He didn't write, he didn't call
And she thought she'd never know.

Lucy had a lover
One morning he came back
He slipped in looking worried
Like he'd been leaving tracks.

Lucy had a lover
She forgave him for the strife
She knew she loved a mysterious man
But she didn't know his wife.

Lucy had a lover
But that love was over soon
His wife had lost the job she worked
Every day till noon.

Lucy lost her lover
And the wife lost her belief
He left them both for greener pastures
That he's buried underneath.





 

©By Voo
April 26, 09
9:18 p.m.

Silent Swimming, Like The Moon



Silent swimming, like the moon
We glide on silver clouds away
Past far beyond and ever more
Into the night before the day.

Silent swimming, like the moon
We gentle kiss the sleeping sky
Fly underneath the rainbowed hues
Hid deep within the moonlight's sigh.

Silent swimming, like the moon
Two lovers, we, on joyous feet
Dance over sorrowed cobblestone
That turn at once to golden street.

Silent swimming, like the moon
In night winds, sing, the hallowed song
Of love, of love that never falls
But when it does, takes us along.

Silent swimming, like the moon
Behind the treetops, standing still
With nightingales for decoration
We clap our hands at every trill.

Silent swimming,  like the moon
Most every night, like children play
Running here and there and seeking
Treasures the sun has stored away.

Silent swimming,  like the moon
We ride the tides, we float in air
Tumbling, laughing, loving, descending
 Back down to find the ground still there.


©by Voo
August 19, 2012
2:45 a.m.

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Saboteur

 


                
                Saboteur

                Love is like a Trojan Horse
                It snuck silently into my life
                Under false pretenses
                On the one night I was not on guard.

                You know I speak the truth
                Deny it not     
                Those deep deep eyes
                Couldn't hide the truth if truth was just a lie.

                You think because you wear soft shoes
                That you can dance on me
                But you do an impressive pirouette,
                Don't you?

                Mockingbirds take lessons
                For you excel at mocking
                Filling the air with illusions of songs
                That are only noises.

                If I could legally exterminate
                The memory of you, would I do it?
                I lie in bed and think about that, hours on end
                Dream of revenge, even as I grovel in wanting.

                There is none so blind
                As he who will not see
                But I have looked and I have seen
                And I have looked away.

                And now I see with eyes wide open
                All the ravages you brought with you
                All the dents and damages
                You left in your wake.

                I barely recognize myself today
                In the shattered mirrors of your eyes
                So slyly does your mouth smile
                And so coldly do your fingers touch my skin.

                Yes! This is a poem for you!
                Yes! This is a song about you!
                Yes, yes, yes! This page is filled with love and hate
                The two-edged sword you cut me with.

                And all the things you make me feel
                And all the deaths you make me die,
                All the joys you crushed beneath your shoes
                In the days that followed my surrender.

                There was so much promise there
                In the beginning.............
                So much sweetness springing forth from me
                Like a fountain flowing from a rock.

                I thought you came from God
                I thought you held the stars within your hands
                And all the songs that had ever been written
                Had been composed by you.

                Saboteur! Traitor! Deceiver!
                Lover!
                How I long to take back every yesterday
                And replace them with tomorrow!

                You are a cold wind that ever blows
                And no candle I can light will keep it's glow for long
                You will not allow it.................
                You will not give me the warmth I need to survive.

                Saboteur!
                Turning hope to dust and peace to war
                Making unholy, that which was sacred in my eyes
                As my brokenness falls upon your battlefield.

                If I did not love you, it would not matter
                If I did not hate you, I could not bear this pain
                You were the traitor and I, the betrayed
                And yet it is I, who stands before the firing squad at
                dawn.
               
                But no more will I wear the hood and mask
                No more will I twist myself away from what is coming
                From this moment forward, when you fire that gun,
                I want you to kill me as you look in my eyes.

                You have made me into something I never was
                And the only way to change me is to kill me
                I will not beg of you but I will not run
                My hate, a shield too heavy to hold................
                Still wants to die in your arms

                Love.


                © by Voo
                Aug 2, 2011
                1:37 a.m.