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Tyler Jones Mar 2021
The more I explain
The less you’ll understand
Some will stray
Some will stand in sinking sands
Soaked and shameless
Fickle fixed faces
Hollow phrases
Too late to delay it
Debts need repaying
Which one should I play them?
The star or the stand in
Havoc practice
Mice and malice
Tic and tacking
Tick tock slacking
Pressure stacking, taxing
Hexes, hacking
Backs breaking
Think need relaxing
Complacency
There’s no going back to that currency
AC/DC
current carries me
Hyper culture comedown
Connect the clocks
Connect the clowns
Time is a riddle
Don’t look down
Just go with the flow
It’s all happening now
Common ground
Bounce of the walls
Won’t let you fall
My go go doll
  Mar 2021 Tyler Jones
NightOwls
We were special
late nights
falling asleep
on the phone
tone to tone
laughing
crying
cheek bones hurting
from all the smiling
planning
whispering
comfort
that was us
now there is silence
no good mornings
no sweet dreams
no thinking of you's
I sit here
dreaming
heart sullen
crusted tears
salty cheeks
red stained lips
wishing
thinking of you
missing you
trying so hard
to
just
say
no
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Im alone
You’re not here
Ball my fists bc its the loneliness i fear
Instead I drink my tears and weep before I fall asleep
I miss your skin
I miss your smile
I miss your voice and noises
I miss your stillness
Sticking to your hip
Now all i can do is bite my lip
I still whisper to you
Sometimes more like babble till I’m blue
Sometimes tears dont come and i choke
Choke me from making conversation with your ghost
“When will you be home?”
I miss asking u that the most
I miss you filling my soul with silver and gold
Simple things that went untold
You broke me down and i started to fold
I asked for it bc i couldnt stand the alternative
To leave you cold
I let you take control
So i burned down myself and went back up on the shelf
The phoenix came and left ashes for you to play make believe with
Pieces which i still dont know what you did with but i trust you wore it well
I miss your kiss
I miss your tells
Being with you was a blessing in hell
Hurts so bad that ur gone
My ribcage beats so hollow and soft
I miss your sight
I miss your song
Weaving around me all night and day long
Orbiting, satellite making sure i dont get stuck or strayed too far off
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Dancing between demons and dreams
Why did I leave?
When did I get here?
When did I start this spark in the dark?
Lost in my fear
Frost frozen clear
To everyone but me
But here I spin in uncertainty
Is all this dreaming a poison or a cure to me?
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Silver screen
Grey concrete
Crawling stalling
Stonewalling
Phone calling
Mirrors mud
Manic plastic and plaster
Mickey mouse masks and bad bladders
Rain pitter patter
Hey batter batter
Babble on mad hatter
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Lonely in paradise
Disguised design
Pinned to my lies
What a wicked demise
Serpentine afterlife
Hyper again
Hyper me
Flying free
Towards the sun
Cigarettes and bubblegum
Freaks and geeks
Playing dumb
Pressures on
Leaves us numb
Feel it all again
As the waves come
Doubling down
Diving in, getting dunked
Pacing in hyperspace
So many reasons to run
Calling all their bitter bluffs
So fly high butterfly
Ride the current
Keep making the cut
Keep proving them wrong
You know the show goes on even when you’re done
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