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Monday, February 10, 2020

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 heard when your heart would sing
But I never listened 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.


Monday, February 3, 2020

What Is It?





















What is It?


If love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it's not real?

If love is not there
How can you feel it?
And what is a love
That you can't feel?

What is wanting
If you don't want it?
And needing something
That you don't need?

Why is the thing you don't need
So all powerful?
And how does it grow
If you don't plant the seed?

How does the heart decide who it loves?
Does the mind then, not play a part?
All the thoughts in the brain can't conceive
Of the emotions that live in the heart.

The heart is an entity all its own
No one can control it by will
Your mind can demand and command it
But the heart hears and goes it's way, still.

I do not want to love you
I had made no plans, you see
I didn't count on you entwining yourself
Till you became a part of me.

I didn't want to want you 
I didn't need the pain
I had hurt so much from love's cruel touch
And I didn't want to hurt again.

I really tried to run away
When that feeling did approach
I resisted everything I saw in you
That my heart needed the most.

But the heart became my master
And my mind just sighed and left
For it knew that soon my heart would break
And that I'd find myself, bereft.

And so I am and so it did
And love's wounds have cut me deep
As my heart reached out to hold onto
Something it could never keep.

You tell me love cannot be real 
In this place and space and time
Because your own heart does not feel
The love I feel with mine.

And though that might be true for you
That doesn't make it so
Not thinking, I reached my hands to love
And with the same hands, must let it go.

If this love is not love
Then what is it?
How can it exist
If it's not real?

If my love for you
Is not something that's true
Then tell me 
What is this heartbreak I feel?

You can't tell me my mind has imagined
When my mind warned me not to partake
The mind only has one thing in common
With the heart and that's both of them break.

But only love can break a heart
That thing that God gave man
And only He knows the secret to how
Love can heal that heart again.

















by Voo 
July 4, 20019
12:27 a.m.
Independence Day




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Dancing With Your Ghost



Monday, January 27, 2020

UnMasked.......a fable

Music of the Night
Gerard Butler









UnMasked


Alas! I am undone! I said
You've snared me here within your arms
You've demanded of me and I have acquiesced
To the dangerous pull of your magnetic charms.

For your eyes have caressed me
All night as I danced
And drawn me here now 
To the thrill of romance.

Take off your mask!
You said in my ear
And I had refused
As though I couldn't hear

And my hair hid me further
As it tumbled and fell
And you grabbed me
And pulled me and I tumbled as well.

You danced me down the corridor
As the the musicians softly played
Pulled me into a room and locked the door
I do not know you, sir, I said

I was breathless, pale and frightened
But I did not want to go
I wanted to know why I wanted you
A total stranger that I did not know.

Oh, but you do! you whispered
You just don't remember yet
So many times we've played this game
And you always do forget.

For I have visited you often
In visions and in dreams
Written you sonnets and letters
And songs that you could sing.

Painted you landscapes
 And roses, it's true
And thousands of portraits
My love, all of you.

I do not know you, sir, I don't
I've never seen your face
Though there is something in your eyes, 
Your voice, that I can't place.

Take off your mask! I commanded him
But he just bowed his head
Then his eyes filled with love and more of desire
And I stared at him full of dread.

I pulled away but he pursued
Grasped me by the hand
Pulled me tight against his chest
And the battle then began

I fought to keep my dignity
Though my dignity had gone
And when his lips trailed down my neck
I froze as made of stone.

Who are you, sir? I begged of him
My head against his shoulder
My heart was racing, my blood was pumping
As he grew even bolder

I am he, he said, He, whom you love
And have for all of time 
How can that be? I asked, kissing him
And his mouth tasted good like wine.

And then I twirled and pushed him away
Ran to the fireplace and cried
You are mad! I exclaimed, You are mad and mistaken!
I do not know you, sir! You've lied!

You will see me again! he said, coming toward me
Pulled me against him, kissed me hard on the lips
And my body betrayed me and pushed in to his
And a strange thrusting motion took over my hips.

What am I doing? I cried aloud
What is this thing you've done unto me?
I know no man, nor have I kissed one!
"You are not blind but you cannot see."

He said in answer, 
Striding then toward the door
Then bowed and he left me
Alone there once more.

I waited minutes, then for an hour
I waited for what, I did not know
I collapsed in tears upon the rug
And then at last, I rose to go

The ball was ending, the sun was rising
My father's coach waited at the door
I looked around to see the stranger
But his presence was not there anymore.

Then we drove away
As darkness was dying
While the orchestra still played
In the pale morning light
I hugged myself, smiling
 As we left it behind us
And I danced to the music
 Floating there in the night.

Many days passed and long nights full of longing
Of sleeplessness, fear and my poor heartache's pain
I made inquiries to neighbors, hired private detectives
And longed  just to feel him kiss me again.

But there was nothing and no one knew about him
The handsome man with whom I'd danced
My friends were giddy and hid their laughter
And teased me about my 'great romance'.

Then one night he visited me in a dream
A dream so sweet and yet so strange
He looked so different and yet I knew him
And he held me close and spoke my name.

You are mine, he said, and always will be
Promise you'll wait till you see me again
Promise me this, that you'll remember my kiss
And give your sweet love to no other man.

And I promised him that
And I promised him always
As he touched me and kissed me
All night till the dawn.

And we couldn't hold back
As we gave in to passion
But when morning came calling
He was already gone.

I saw him no more for many a year
At no ball or hall or even in dreams
And he slipped away as my memory faded
And into realms of pure fantasy, or so it did seem..

As I grew up from girl into woman
And then to lady who should have been wed
Who wanted to share my heart with another
And share my life and share my bed.

My friends all married and moved away
Each with their dream and life and plan
My parents pushed me out into society
And bade me go, find myself a man.

But there was no one to catch my eye
No one to make my heart beat fast
I teased and taunted men I never wanted
And played love's games that never could last.

And then one day as I arrived back home
Arms full of packages from my many trips
A tall handsome stranger with deep dark eyes
Grabbed me and kissed me full upon the lips

Unhand me, sir! I shouted, fearful
My packages flying, I failed to see
Who could be so bold to assault a lady
And then he laughed and said, It's me.

That voice, that voice! I knew that voice!
Those eyes so merry and full of light
But I was confused for no stranger stood there
But the man I had loved in my dreams that dark night.

Do I know you, sir? I asked him, puzzled
Oh yes, you do! he shook his head
I danced with you at a long ago ball
But the man that I was then is long gone and dead.

How can that be? I scoffed at his fable
You are standing here talking this fine August morn!
And he sighed and he told me the strangest thing yet
For the love of you, I will always be ever reborn.

And we shared our lives and loved each other
Inseparable for many years
We had our good times and our bad times
We had our laughter and our tears.

Then one sad, sad day, I knew he was leaving
Beginning his ending to one day begin
I held to him tightly till he said, Let me go, love 
One day I promise to find your sweet face again.






©by Voo
Feb 5, 2019
1:50 a.m.








That's All I Ask of You

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Ratboy and Catboy Do "Sweet Home Chicago"


     






And The Moon Melted





And The Moon Melted


The moon rose high up in the sky
Without a single sound
The wind like silk, embraced our shadows
Lying on the ground.

Your lips, wine stained, delicious 
Devoured mine hungrily
And your dark eyes of paradise
Made my eyes, Eden, see.

The soft waves, ebbing slowly
As the sea, it's symphony, played
A dark background with silver gleaming
While my heart, at your feet, laid.

Your questioning eyes, my questioning sighs
Asked questions without words
And our hearts, in answer, in rhythm, shouted
What only two hearts had heard.

Your hand, upon my chin, to raise
My face up to your glance
You kissed me softly like a whisper
And our feet began to dance.

For music then sprang from everything
With no musician hidden there
And the night clouds parted, silently fleeing 
To reveal the bright moon there.

The love that shone as night moved on
All of our sadness, shattered
And we forgot our pasts and forgot our pain
Knowing now was all that mattered.

And the moon, knowing much about love herself, smiled 
As you melted yourself into me
And the moon, who loved those dark silvery waters  
Melted herself into the sea.






January 22, 2020
6:30 p.m.
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