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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

In The Claws of a Cold Cruel Night







The Way by Zack Hemsey







In The Claws
 of a Cold Cruel Night


(for the victims of the slave trade that is still going on
all over the world on so many levels even here in my own country)




Clasped in the claws of a cold cruel night
I battled to breathe and I struggled to fight
With the terror that hooked me and took me away
Far from the fire and the safety of day.

In the arms of the awful and hopelessly lost
To pay just a fraction of what my life cost 
And though I was broken, the merchandise, marred
There were some who were looking for the thing that was scarred.

And they circled around me, more vultures than men
Reaching and touching and reaching again
And I bit at their fingers and I hit at their eyes
And they laughed at my despair and crowed at my cries.

In the depths of the desert, in the forests, forlorn
Slave markets for creatures in feminine form
In cages of steel and ropes without pity
Taken from home and village and city.

For the want of a woman, for the need of a night
We were captured and hidden from rescuers' sight
By men who were soul-less and wanton with lust
They shattered our innocence, they destroyed our trust.

And we prayed to our fathers and we called to the sky
As we listened in silence to the scream and the sigh
Of our sisters before us in the tents of the knave  
Who gave in and gave up when no one came to save. 

I had long dreamed since childhood of a love of my own
A husband and children and a sweet little home
Living free in my country, loving free in the arms
Of a man who would love me and keep me from harm.

For my mother had promised he would come one fine day
Sweep me off my feet and would carry me away
To the dream and the passion and the joy of my heart
But the dream's dying in me before it could start.

I'm a child! I'm a child! I'm still young and not old
I am more than this flesh, I am spirit and soul
You can't buy me with money or own me as chattel
I am human and worth more than fields full of cattle.

My eyes filled with tears, I can hardly see now
They tell me to follow, they make me to bow
They pull on my hair, they bruise and they squeeze
Like traders at market with fruit ripened to please.

But the fire in my heart and the fight in my fist
Gives me courage to say No, I won't go like this!
You can kill me and burn me and throw me away
But none of you devils will own me this day!

And they laugh in their shock at the brave little girl
Who would dare to resist her sad fate in the world
Who would stand up to men who were greater than she
And worth more to God than she'd ever be.

Then the dark crawls to shadow and dawn suddenly breaks
And the traders and buyers and those holding the stakes
Are revealed in the sunlight and exposed in the light
Like insects, they go scrambling for the cover of night.

And a man in white clothing, reaches his hand to me
Pulls me to my feet and says,  Daughter, you're free
And an army of good men, like heroes so tall
Opens cages and knots and gives freedom to all.

And my sisters and I, we rejoice and we yell
As they round up the men who had made us this hell
Who had kidnapped and caught us and bought us for slaves
Who would wish that they hadn't as they lay in their graves.

We are yellow and black, we are white and we're tan
We are equal in God's sight and equal to man
We are precious and worthy and worth more than gold
But are torn as we leave there with such holes in our souls.

In the trucks going home through the forests so dark
We embrace, giving thanks with our little girl hearts
And we wonder aloud about the good man in white
Who had reached out and freed us and faded from sight.

And we pray for the children and the victims like we
All over the world who just want to be free
From the tyranny of evil and the lust of it's eyes
For we know now there's someone who does hear our cries.

You're so brave! they all tell me, You stood up to the beasts!
But I smile, saying nothing till their praises have ceased
For my bones had near melted as I'd stood and defied 
And in the arms of my sisters, I fell and I cried.







©By Voo
July 19, 2017
2:42 a.m.







I don't know where this came from.....

.the story just fell into my fingers tonight and I had to 

write it down..











     Liza, originally by Bill Withers....
                              a powerful cover that seems so apropos




https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_essence_of_evil_sex_with_children_has_become_big_business_in_america

The Strength of Vulnerability














The Strength Of Vulnerability



If you want a strong relationship
Be it with dog, or God, or man
You must show your vulnerabilities
For that's the only way you can.
Pride does nothing but push away
And arrogance turns the heart
You must let others know you need them
If you want true love to start.
Don't be afraid of needing
Don't be afraid to show
That you need what the others have
If you ever want to grow.
I hope you hear what I'm saying
And that you will understand
You must open your heart if you want to know love
From a dog or from God or from man.

©by Voo
2/22/2020
7:12 p.m.




What Love Is All About
by Johnny Reid



Your Eyes Are Like....









Ocean Eyes






Your Eyes Are Like....



Your eyes are like the ocean

Deeper than the sea
And swimming there inside their depths
Is where I want to be.

Your eyes are like the heavens

Up above my head
Sending signals to my brain
Demanding to be read.

Your eyes are like soft rainy days

And sometimes like a storm
Blazing up with passion's fire
To make my cold heart, warm.

Your eyes are like twin mirrors

Hear me, yes, it's true
I see me in your eyes of love
And in my eyes, you see you.

Your eyes are my jewels and my gold

My silver shining sea
And joyous I live now I've found you
And your eyes shine on me.


©by Voo

12/10/19




Liars Lie


Liars Lie


Liars lie for many reasons
No matter what the day or season
Lying seems to pass the time
And makes them feel so...so sublime
Liars lie to hide the fact
That they have nothing there in back
Of their facades, of their ad libs
Just air and dust behind the glib
Liars hurt the ones they touch
And they don't care all that...that much
They drown their feelings in dry vermouth
And keep their eyes from seeing truth
For if they did, they'd blow away
And fall to Hell and there they'd stay
For nothing kills quite like a lie
And nothing makes you want to die
Or makes your eyes fill up and cry
Like lies of love that liars lie.


©by Voo
Jan 8, 2005
9:59 P.M.

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

I Followed The Moon




The Heart Within
by Peter Gundry



I Followed The Moon



I followed the moon to find you
For the moon knew where you did abide
In a forest of green that was hidden, unseen
With no door to let me come inside.

Your feet left no tracks on the soft grass
I could not follow you on the trail
I could not discern for I had not yet learned
All the secrets that you kept so well.

You came to me in shadow one bright night
When I was there weeping alone
Lying in a field of moon flowers
With a young heart that felt made out of stone.

All of my life I'd felt lonely
And thought that I always would be
Except for the man in the moon, my one friend
(For I thought that the moon followed me.)

And you sang to me while I did sleep
Lying on that ground
You caressed my face with tender grace
And then left without a sound.

I looked for you long after that
And called for you to hear
But though I could not see your form
I felt that you were near.

Sometimes I heard you singing softly
In the whispers of the leaves
Sometimes I saw you clear as day
In the branches of the trees.

At night I dreamed of your bright eyes
Watching in my room
But when I opened up my own,
Saw nothing but the moon.

Sometimes I felt you touching me
Kneeling by my bed
Raising my face for your kiss
Your hand upon my head.

Sometimes you did much more than touch
Sometimes you deemed to linger
And wrapped me in your arms so tight
And round your little finger.

And I began to crave that touch
And hunger for that bliss
And I became a woman, lost
With each beguiling kiss.

For many nights you did not come
Not even in a dream
And I went mad with wanting you
And holding back my scream.

And then one night with second sight
I knew where you might be found
I slipped out of my window
While the moonlight lit the ground.

And I followed the moon as it hurried ahead
In the sky toward the forest so dark
Ignoring the danger, the beast and the stranger
As the hunger led me by the heart.

I followed the moon to find you
Not knowing if man or a ghost
Awaited me there in the green forest lair
Nor if you'd be a welcoming host.

And when the moon had come to rest
I stopped underneath it's glow
Wondering if I'd lost my mind
Because I didn't know.

If you were real or phantom
If you were myth or man
And I cried and cried there in the dark
Until you took my hand.

'You came to me!" you softly breathed
"Your love has set me free!
The curse is reversed and broken
Because you came to me!"

And you covered my face in kisses
And looked into my eyes so deep
"Until tonight I could only touch you
There in the world of sleep."

"Your love has given me flesh and form!"
You cried with human tears
"You do not know how long I've waited
For all these lonely years."

"I followed the moon to find you." I said
"With my heart full of doubt and of doom 
But is this tale of yours true, my love, who are you?"
And you smiled, "I was the man in the moon."





©By Voo
October 2, 2019
2:38 p.m.