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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

I Met a Man Who Had No Heart





I Met A Man Who Had No Heart




I met a man who had no heart
Inside his manly chest
There was no organ pumping blood
Or beating in his breast.

Oh, he was normal, all in all
From outside looking in
From head to toe you wouldn't know
The void so hidden then.

He smiled at me and I smiled back
And his smiles seemed to me, gold
But later on it dawned on me
That all his smiles were cold.

His lips, they said the lovely things
A woman loves to hear
But no comfort gave me in the dark
But only brought me fear.

So innocent, I gave my love
And he took it and departed
I met a man who had no heart
And who left me broken hearted.




   
© Voo 2007 



Heartless by Justin Nozuka

Give Me A Reason



Give Me a Reason



Give me a reason, girl
To lay this dagger down
Give me hope and help me cope
To live above this ground.

Give me a reason, baby
To go on with my life
Pour some joy on this blue boy
Whose mind is filled with strife.

Give me a reason, sister
If a reason you can give
Make me wait till morning
Make me want to live.

Give me a reason, sweetheart
To do myself no harm
Tell me that you love me
And take me in your arms.

Give me a reason, lover
To throw away this knife
For I will die before I see
You be my best friend's wife.

©by Voo
May 13, 07 
9:30 p.m.


Turning Twenty-Two








Turning Twenty-Two




Yeah, I turned twenty- two today
And I didn't know what to do or to say
How to act or how to feel, if this was it, if it was real?
If I should rejoice or just lament about the money that he'd spent.

I sat with my father and that made him glad
For so very long now he's been so sad
And everything seems to just make him mad
But me and my birthdays and poetry.

There was a cake, there was a dish
I blew out the candles and made a wish
I wished for a life that was happy and free
And that things could go back to the way they used to be.

When I was a boy and life was a game
Of long summer days and walks in the rain
Of puppies and kittens and laughing till crying
And there was no such thing as divorce or dying.

I remember those days and they make me smile
As I visit my childhood and forget for a while
How different life is now and how lonely it seems
When compared to the world that I live in, in dreams.

I turned the Big 2-2, twenty two today
 And my friends all teased  me and called me "Old Man" and such
And the presents were nice
And I admit I was touched.

But for some reason I felt old
And not young anymore
And I felt I had walked through a no-going-back-door
And that I had set foot on a far away shore............

As I looked at my father,
 Being brave, though bereft
I looked into his sad eyes..........
And I saw myself.




©by Voo
For Daniel