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Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Take me, take me to August in the streets
The fair and the sea
Babies, ladies
Crying out at night
Take me, save me
Vampires feed the fright
Furnace burns so bright

I can’t stand this heat
I’m unfurling
Burning, turning
Salty winds and skies
I think I might die when I’m ON this high
Yearning, learning

I can see us every day
Standing in the way because cliques, control and counter bait
Can’t get stuck, cannot stay
Cannot wait
Rushing with the tidal waves
Here comes another get away
Pacing, racing

Lazer eyes and my dancing shoes
No bummers Summers, we got a lot to chew
Get it, got it, good gotta get this through because this ones for you
Who?
Won’t you tune in too
What will this turn in to?

Hells bells, show and tells
Noise, boys and tipping toys
Tick tacking from tide to tide
Now your spinning in my ditzy mind
Dizzy right?
Tyler Jones Jun 2021
Sin and Sincerity  
The land and sea
Were meant to be
you and me
Chaos and symmetry
The land and sea
We bend and bleed

Feel it under the shade
In the summer sun
So I breathe in the wind
Exhale like a gun
Look any way and its the all the same
We all need someone
We all need something to stay x2
Am I coming down
No not the only one
We’re all part of the game
So just have some fun
Who are we oh what have we become?
We all take up space
Were pieces of the sun

Look any way
It’s all the same
We all need a face to a name
Something to frame
We bend and bleed
Unconsciously

I feel *****
I must be coming down
Stuck static searching
Grit my teeth as I’m burning
Up against the wall
Looking for somewhere to fall
It’s insane
Out here where the waves break
Im not gonna lie
If there’s no reason why
Why do we put up this charade
Silly dancers, changing shapes
Saved by the pain
Gasping for grace

Up against the wall
Looking for somewhere to fall
m not gonna lie
If there’s no reason why
Silly dancers, changing shapes
Saved by the pain
Gasping for grace
Tyler Jones Jul 2021
Lovers kiss and I avert my eyes
Reading between the lines
Why do we try to hide behind everything that we can find?
We climb and climb
Just to lose track of time
Think of all the things we could do
Instead of confusing abuse for truth
Heartbeats
Colors stream
Light beams
Crowded close
Toe to toe
Firework show
Fear surrounding
Chaos compounding
So I let go
Give in to the undertow
Waves hush, rush and roll
Young hearts
Old souls
Come together
Becoming whole
Mind control
Cut throat
Overdose
Soul soap
Soft boy
Hard head
Posing playing pretend
Sunset
Back bend
Garden party
The end
Tyler Jones May 2021
I was a spy
One dizzy dove disguised
Snakes skin, shape-shift, flew too high
Fed my confessions to a beast
Drenched in disease
A purchase steep, ****** feasts
Desert scene, squeezed between
Solarised then soaked release
Rain drips and flows from twisted tongues
Coming undone, midnight sun
The rose grows until it dozes
Secrets linger left exposed
Wilt away until the wind blows
Overflow, afterglow
Jumping jacks, candlesticks
Quiet and quick
Bound my limbs
Frail and thin
Began again
Sound so bright
Wound so tight
Frozen in fear
Electrified
Become the sun
Wings inside
Stole your eye
Kept it as mine
You caught on in time
Our parallel lines
Became harder to define
Ran myself right off my mind
Though I know that I’ll get by
Wrapped up, rough edges, ripple and rise
Tyler Jones Sep 2019
I think I’m at the bottom
Below the waves
You go high, I go low
It’s always the same song
And I don’t know
What words to say
To make you feel the same way
It must be just another good day
I am here and here I’ll stay

I think I lost my mind the other day
Standing in a supermarket lane
But I don’t care
How or where
I’ve cared too much
I know I’ve lost touch
It must be just another good day
I am here and here I’ll stay
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
Get in line
What you been working on all this time?
Fractals and spines
Whips tigers lions
Please please gimme gimme back that dream
Lemon lime and orange sweet
I mean im trying
All outta tempo, time
Just slips right between my fingers
Tattoos and tingles
Hang on I think its happening again
Sell out on my soft sins
Begin again
Shells and wishing wells
fingerprints on the window glass
Crowded in the loud
In back seats
All through our teens
Now I know what I’ve seen
All this time
Rushing hushing spelling out all our white lies
Frozen faces
White lines
Keepin’ up with the times
They said
Wake up!
Theyre laughing in our faces
Listen up!
All the dreams
All these pieces
Rearrange and repeat it
Tyler Jones May 2021
Remember that place?
Neverland of the New Age
Hidden in the garden of the strange
Full of wonder and grace
How the stars fall right where they belong
And the roses bloom
Twisted truths
From thickets of thorns and pain
How the shadows start to glow just when you look away...
...Now I see your face
In all the spaces between
In the silence and in my dreams
For a moment I feel free but it’s just a tease
With you I’m anything
Rearrange or replace me
Ill fill in the blanks
Of all the lines on our faces When it’s all long gone to ruin and waste
I can see it now
All around
Coming down on us
Lifting us up
To see up above
The pieces of the puzzle
Secrets we keep leak half asleep
Heartbeats bleed need
Bandaids and muzzles
War wounds weep
Sutured silver lines
You’re my goldmine
You shine divine
I was stuck in the static
Lost in the dream
Stuck in between
The unheard and the unseen
Seems so surreal
The way the waves weave us together like birds of a feather
Diving into the scattered sun
Drowning out
The doubt surrounding us
Smoke and mirrors
Pictures getting clearer
Crowns left shattered on the ground
And the dead are dancing upside down
Soulless and proud
Picking up the place
Picking up the pace
Picking it up before we put it back in it’s place
Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Heart underwater
Head bobbing above
Sunken treasure
Sunken trunk
Bottom bunk
Top is stuck
Coagulated
Saving blood
Islands, fountains
Arks and floods
Miss your tides
Shared bathtubs
Leaned over the sink
While I’m soaping up
Choking on bubbles
You’re throat is cut
You use tiny tissues
As I hack the foam up

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