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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

BECAUSE OF YOU






Because of You


There are days when roses seem sweeter
The sun shines brighter
And the roads you walk on
Rise up to meet your feet and glide you along.

There are nights when the moon sings
And silver stars shoot across the celestial canvas
Birds stay up just to croon you lullabies
And the world is a sweet and jubilant place.

I never knew that place before
I never felt like I could touch the heavens
Dance on daylight and run with the rain
Until now, because now, there's you.

All you have to do is smile
All you have to do is reach
All you have to do is be
And Earth becomes Eden.

If I could write you a love song
All the lyrics would be 'you'
If I could paint portraits
All the faces would be yours.

If I could write you a book
All the stories would be unending
If I could inspire you with dreams
All the dreams would come true.

For these are the things
That you've given to me
These are the joys
That now decorate my days.

Because of you
Because of you
The sun shines brighter
Because of you.







©by Voo
Feb 24, 08




Sweet Baby by Prince my fave by him

Saturday, February 3, 2018

If I ( a spur of the moment nonsense write that means nothing and everything)



If  I


If I knew what I never have known
I would go where I have never been
If I saw what I haven't yet seen
I would finish what I couldn't begin.

If I could taste what I've never eaten
I would smell what my nose never knew
If I could touch all the clouds in the heavens
I would sip and would sup on the blue.

If I felt all the feelings that fill me
I would run with the feet that can't stand
If I slapped everyone that needs slapping
I would slap all the faces of man.

If I loved all the people that loved me
If I kissed all the lips that kissed me
I would dance in the dark with myself and my heart
And I'd diss all the ones who dissed me.

If I counted to ten in the morning
I would add all the numbers so bright 
If I poured the sun out on the sadness
I would cover the ground with the night.

If I had all the money I don't have
I would spend all my money on you
If I sang every love song not written
I would know if those love songs were true.

If I flung my poor heart in the ocean
It would swim in the deep with the fishes
If a poet could be, I would write poetry
But I'm not but that's what I wishes.



©by Voo
Jan 30, 2018
10:45 p.m.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

SITTING IN SILENCE TOGETHER






Sitting in Silence Together



Sitting in silence together
We shared our aching hearts
She with her unanswered questions
And me, knowing not how to start.

I wanted to comfort and love her
And she needed comfort and love
But I knew that what she was needing
Could only be sent from above.

I prayed to be His willing vessel
His hands and His feet on this Earth
But how do you speak to the grieving
Who'd lost what she'd found at that birth?

I searched for correct words to give her
I fumbled for just the right touch
I just needed to make her feel better
But my human words didn't help much.

And then I heard the Lord say to me:
Just be and I will do
Just let her know she's not alone
And I will work through you.

And so I sat there, silent
And let HIm speak through me
Let Him touch her like I could not
And see what she only could see.

Sometimes it's best to do nothing
Sometimes it's good to be quiet
Sometimes just to be present is loving
And shines like the sun in the night.

And so we sat in the silence
Grieving and asking our whys
And though I had no counsel to give her
She thanked me with love in her eyes.


©by Voo
  10:25 p.m.
Oct 8, 2013




Leslie, R.I.P. darling
You're with your daddy now
and whole






Dance With My Father
by Luther Vandross


NEVER SAY




Never Say


Never say that word again
The word I hate to hear
When you get bent all out of shape
And give in to your fear.

You know I’m here or you should know
By now through all of this
That I would take you in my arms
And soothe you with a kiss.

And even if I cannot be
With you when you need me
I’m still there in this heart of mine
I’d think by now you’d see.

That I would give the world to you
If only it were mine
And I would make you king of it
Beside me for all time.

This world is such a lonely place
And we all need each other
And I don’t mean to overwhelm
And I don’t mean to smother.

It’s just that in my heart of hearts
I feel too much to bear
And I know you feel too much, too
But you don’t want to share.

And how that scares me, how it hurts
To be shut out from you
When all your pain calls out my name
And I can’t comfort you.

I may not be a queen to you
And far from your ideal
But I am true and I love you
And all I am is real.

Can you not feel this hand of mine
Reaching in the dark?
That fire that blazed up long ago
Is down to just a spark.

The light has gone out of the world
Cause I can’t feel your love
And you won’t speak so I must seek
The face of God above.

On your behalf, more so on mine
Because I grieve for you
Pushing me out of your life
In all you say and do.

You said to just leave you alone
You said to go away
And all the sunshine left my skies
And became a cloudy day.

And you walked off and left me there
With nothing in my hand
And shouted as you walked away
Go find yourself a man!

Like you were not the man I love
Like you were not a man
Like you saw yourself as just a grain
In a universe of sand.

And you would never be much more
No matter what you did
No matter how tall you could grow
You’d be a little kid.

I wanted so to run after you
And show you, you were wrong
To ask you how I could sing again
When you're my only song.

But I just waited till you returned
And slipped back in the door
Knowing things were not the same
The way they were before.

You do not talk but you say so much
In your silence there’s a din
Of alibis from a heart that cries
The word I can’t hear again.

I cannot stand the word Goodbye
It tears my soul in two
You twist it in me like a knife
And make me bleed with you.

And though I bleed, I do not leave
Or run from you for cover
Because I know deep in my soul
That we could heal each other.


©by Voo




A Tender Lie by Restless Heart

Sunday, January 21, 2018

DELUGE



Deluge



It's raining here
In my heart and outside the window
Cold rain, hard rain
Slicing down the panes
And through my heart 
Like the dagger that love
Often turns out to be.

But I hardly care how much I hurt
I only care how much I miss
Your kiss, your touch
And the way your mouth turns up
In an expression that could either be
A frown or a smile.

If the sky cries then it cries with me
For it doesn't like to cry alone either
I close my eyes and pretend
That there's an angel
Standing outside in the rain
Catching everything in a bottle
And shaking his head at the fragility of man.

(Why do I play the blues when it's raining?
Isn't that like a misery overload?
Why do we compound our heartbreak
And multiply it times a thousand
When it's already too much to bear?)

Angels can only witness
They cannot participate
They cannot feel the pain and stupidity of the human
For God has blessed them with that inability
And cursed us with feeling too much.

Listen. Hear that? The thunder?
The sky is screaming and so am I
Building up in intensity, it roars
Like a marching band beating drums
Made of human hearts.

Then silence
Then lightning
God's way of revealing
Who He is and who we are not
We are terrified of it, yet fascinated
How often have I stood in it's terror
And dared it to strike me.

But only after I had fallen in love
The greatest form of terror there is
The thing that has both heaven and hell
In it's hands
And continually rolls the dice to determine
Which one you get at any given time.

I love the rain
I love the lightning and the thunder
But most of all
I love you
And everything that you can give me
And take away.

But tonight.....tonight....
My heart is flooded
With rain and pain and longing
More so than usual, more so than ever
Because tonight
I saw you walking outside my window,
Your arm around another girl.

With your lover's smile lighting up her world
The rain hit your face
And your eye caught my eye
Beyond the lace curtain
And the heavens opened up 
With the rage of a deluge
That could not even compare
 To what poured from my eyes.



©by Voo
Jan 21, 2018
5:43 a.m.





Raining In My Heart by Al Green