I CANNOT DANCE

I Cannot Dance


I cannot dance for my two feet
No longer feel the beat
The music doesn't move me now
Be it loud or sweet.

I cannot dance for my two ears
Have long since lost the tune
So I stand still in the dark of night
Staring at the moon.

I cannot dance for my two arms
Have not a love to hold
So I sit here cradling myself
Shivering in the cold. 

I cannot dance for my two eyes
Cannot see the dream
Or love in someone else's eyes
But hear the silent scream.

I cannot dance for my defective heart
Would burst now if I tried
The world's a sadder, quieter place
Now that the music's died.

Copyright
©2007 by Voo




Time Forgotten by Brian Crain

GREEN APPLES

Green Apples



Love is like a green apple
Juicy
Delicious
Mouthwatering,
Tasty
and
Tempting.


Life is like a green apple
Sweet,
Sour,
Delicate
and
Tough
Within it's peelings.


Every time I see
A green apple,
I want
To take a bite,
I want
To savor the juice
And devour it to the seed.


And yet,
When the apple is gone,
The peelings discarded,
The juice, blotted up,
And the seeds thrown to ground,
I always find myself
Craving still another.


For one apple
Is never enough for me
I am greedy
And eternally hungry,
Continually wanting
To fill my belly
With more.


Ordinary apples
Rarely interest me
I don't know why,
Maybe I am strange
Maybe I am odd,
But my mouth does not water
For the taste of red.


But green apples
Ah!
They call my name
In the middle of night
In the heat of the day,
They beckon me
With memories.


I sink my teeth
Into their juicy flesh
And smile
Savoring the tartness
That comes with the sweet,
But I am insatiable,
Devouring slowly, finishing the last
At the same time looking around
For the next

green apple...............



©by Voo
06/20/10
10:39 p.m.

SURPRISES AT MIDNIGHT

Surprises at Midnight

Get dressed, you said, in the sexiest thing you own

Throw on a coat and follow these words, alone

I've laid down a pretty paper roses trail

And where it leads you to, your eyes will tell

So I, in wonder, did just as he asked

For I was titillated by the task.

I hurried down the stairs and to the street

And the night was full of mystery and heat

I saw the pieces of paper shining there

Down the street, the pier and to the Square

I followed them until I came to rest

In an alley way, my heart pounding in my chest.

I looked around to see what I could see

And all I saw was a curiosity 

A cardboard cut-out of a handsome man

Standing there with roses in his hand.

I sighed and turned to go from that dark place

And then he peeked around the cardboard face

"Hello, my love!" he grinned, "What a surprise!"

And I hit him with a pie between the eyes.

©by Voo

March 18, 20017

6:29 p.m.

for you know who

I Don't Mind

I don't mind

I don't mind the tears

I just hate all the crying

I don't mind being dead

I just hate all the dying.

©Voo

Sept 3, 2017

8:48 p.m.



You There song

EVERY ONE LEAVES ME BEHIND

Every One Leaves Me Behind

Constant, perpetually, always

Words that describe my grief

And bitterest sorrow

Words that rake across my heart

Like ice cold wind

On a howling December dawn

I hate those words

I hate the way the meanings changed

When all the love left my world

I hate the way my soul broke

And memories became torture devices

Instead of sunny days

Eternally, everlasting, evermore

Words that use to be valentine cards

And not a diagnosis of my pain

Words that fill me with despair

And not the joy they once did

When I knew what joy could be

I hate the way my head hurts

When I think of everlasting agony

Without a hand to soothe my brow

I hate it.  I hate it!  I hate this...........

Loneliness without end and

Days filled up with emptiness

Nothing means anything anymore

Not even nothing

When there used to be nothing that I wouldn't

Do for love

Now there's no love to do anything for

Not in my life, not in my mind

Love has departed holding hands with hope

Perpetually slamming it's door in my face......

Gone where all the good things go

Things I never could hold on to

Even if I found them outside of a dream

Whether it's true or just in my mind........

Everyone leaves me behind.

© by Voo

Aug 28, 2017

2:11 a.m.