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Jay Bryant Aug 2013
The night owl performs even deep within the storm
The weight of the world on its wings
Though in its heart it sings
It sees the truth that eludes the day
The stabbing of pride that leads them astray
Wholesome is the mind,
But the eyes constantly betray
Causing turmoil and dismay
A freight train is the truth
And it’s coming this way
To be frank the worlds sleeping
Only the Night Owl is awake
So wake up and start to train
To see the dried blood in the stain
Train your brain to be alert
Or be found dead in the dirt
For what it’s worth
It’s not curse it’s a blessing
So let this be a lesson
A testimony to the proof
A quest of harmony in a zoo
To silence all of the hullabaloo
Let the Night Owl Be proof to you
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Close your eyes and feel the presence of yourself,
Abolish the world from your thoughts and let reality melt
We live within our senses, We Are Nothing, but we’re here can you admit this
I amend it, a way of thinking that allows time to become absent.
Rather you’re at your pinnacle or in your casket
No life form can match it, imagine the end as anticlimactic
Imagine your life without scare tactics, without fear schematics
Our lives are mapped out,
Until we look within
This is where spirituality begins.
The things our brains can’t yet comprehend
Though once we must have been
Society road blocked our creativity in
Stressed simplicity until we believed it again
The ancients are more modern yet we call them cavemen.
We’re told to read books and agree with the men
When our opinions start to differ we’re told to read it again
Well now I take a stand as firm as the genetics of man,
Strong as God’s right hand.
This is where my life begins.
This is where my struggle ends.
I used to strive to survive thinking life could end.
This can’t be God’s intent,
The unseen started this trend,
Why must we fight when we don’t have to fight to win?
We’re all unified by love, but also by sin.
God is love, so love has always been
Though sin was started with man
Since sin has a start it’s possible for it to end
God’s love is strong it won’t waiver or bend
It won’t imprison us within our sin
However there’s doubt in the voices of influential men
I won’t be manipulated by their sounds,
Their actions I won’t recommend
Reprehensible are the things I’ve seen
Irresponsible are human beings
Confined by time their lifetime is all they see
Motivated by greed and material things broadcasted on T.V.
Seems like they’re following the map to me
The trail left by the previous which is devious
There is more to life than what we see in it
Outside of time we’re fine, but we grieve within it
We’re told we’re destined to meet death
So we place that fear deep in our chest
Look at the map and find some points to connect
School 8 hours a day for 13 years,
After that you’d think we’d be considered equal by our peers
But they subtract our success until we add tears.
So we have to go to college for a few more years
Then work 8 hour days to gain acceptance.
With all we learned throughout our years
How could we miss life’s biggest lessons?
We remain blind to the fact that God is near
God is hear; his voice is like my heartbeat
I lay beneath the dark sheets,
And listen for hours to my love’s heart beat
Our women are a blessing, but they don’t teach that lesson
What could the cardiac spark be?
It’s said even the earth has a heartbeat
How smart should I be after 20,000 hours of learning?
A long journey, but we all must attend.
To be taught the theories of men,
To be misled again and again
Time remains, but not man
Look at the time we’ve gained vs. the time we spent
We didn’t pay God to live so after our first day of life
We have a 24 hour deficit.
1440 minutes of our heart beating and,
Our lungs breathing for no apparent reason
Besides that fact that God believes in us
It’s not like God needs us; but we need him.
He created the seed from which we began.
Though our arrogance created disbelief of him.
How ignorant are we not to believe in him.
We help conceive our sons, but don’t breathe life in them
The Breath of Life is in them, The Breath of Life is in us.
So God’s a must, or our lungs would combust
Our dollars read “In God We Trust.”
Though where do we place our trust if money rules us?
Currencies was created by society, to establish a variety and levels of man.
The poor are weak and the rich are prominent men.
We’re taught to chase money, but in the bible it’s taught as sin.
After that first dollar a quest for power begins,
Where did it all begin more money more power let us start over again?
No money, no power just our spirituality within.
God will forgive again if we put our trust in him.
Though we remain to put our trust in men.
They continue to lie over and over again
About the preexistence of man
We’re man’s existence began.
This is why I take a stand.
This conventional way of life I don’t understand
So I’ll close my eyes, look deep within, and listen to love that god sends.
We need to understand the love that God is
The love God gives, he gives us life, and the chance to make it right.
Despite our numerous infidelities, various misdeeds to bring out his jealousy.
It inspires anger in me to think, to be the creator of all things,
And see your created beings giving worship to inanimate deity.
This isn’t radical thinking, rather rational thinking.
We let our arrogance and addiction to power turn us into irrational beings.
Trapped by fear of what society thinks,
Society reeks in its intoxication; drunken with power.
Sobriety is considered insanity in this nation.
Though those made out to be sane lack brains, and the knowledge of the true God.
I find it odd that Christianity was made adjacent with this nation.
Now God is thought of as a façade and they attempt to replace him.
“In God We Trust.” How many of you can find truth in that statement as a Nation?
Do you see the truth in what I’m saying or do you remain blinded by hatred.
Look deep in yourself find your lust for power and replace it.
Instill love in your heart come out of the dark.
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
***
Incense burn in a scene so peaceful
Frankly my heart is hesitant just to greet you
Brain thinking its possible for me to complete you
These mixed emotions seem deceitful
Tho, I start thinking clearer when I see you
Mind so filthy like a mirror,
But I still see you
Had my girl wishing she could be you,
Because I start singing "She Got Papers"
When  I think of You.
I gave my all just to get a piece of you
Signed on the dotted line
So Uncle Sam can see it too.
I remember back in class we would get in to it
Arguing for the top spot,
Who knew this love would pop up
All these years ain't really stopped nothing
Stayed solid to be honest you really haven't changed nothing .

Singing Pretty Ricky lyrics,
You was steady fronting
I like you when you mad,
Even tho you be steady cussing
Impatient but, you'll wait for me like you ain't even rushing

Now just calm down a bit,
Let me rub your back as you sit,
And tell me bout you day to day
Those moments will never fade away
Love to reduce your stress even on my lazy days

I know life gets rough,
But you was raised tough, and I know that's enough
You been got me through them hard times
Been writing this poem for a long time
Emotions, I never show mine

Ice Chest where my heart was at
So I make the wrong moves like I have Parkinson's

But let me get deep
I gotta sweep you off your feet
and put you in your seat.

That Blood Moon really got me thinking,
Listening to Erykah Badu
Like its Soul Searching Season
You stole me soul, maybe that's the reason
I'm writing this poem
Like my Soul crying
And I just want to appease him
Feel like each word I write is committing treason

My heart is steady speaking
But My brain is trying to cease him
Asked God to seize my life
If you ever go away

Been through to much
So I refuse to stay,
On a Earth that only causes dismay
Though, you bring warmth
Like the sun rises each day
Praise your involvement
In my life each day
Grew up around gangs
On the streets of La
Lost so many love ones
I don't even like to play
God doesn't guarantee each day

That's what that Rock music would say
I remember back when I was depressed
Listening to rock music all day
Then  I found out
You wasn't scared to say
You listened to Rock music all day
Blasting Pain by Three Days Grace
Don't feel home Until I see your face.

I know this poem is long,
But this is a special case
Been over three thousand days
Since I first seen your face
Saved my life more than 300 ways
That's once every ten days
Since I first seen your first

I love you
With more than my heart
Girl, that's all I have to say
Ain't talked to you all day
But I still can see your face
It's burned into memory
Every encounter with you
I swear I remember it vividly '
Ten years from now bet I remember
When I wrote this vividly
Sentimental as ****
Ain't even smoked a blunt
Can you picture me.
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Stop For Me....
(Echo)Stop For Me...........
Stop Lying Me
Just Let Me Go
Just Let Me Leave
I said, Ohh... I remember when you use to be mine
I said, Ohh..... Everything use to be fine
But then the green to red
You chose him instead
After You said Over and Over Again
Our Love Would Last To The End.
Now He Left You Again
Dropped Your Heart Out His Hand
Just Like You Left Me,
Oh The Irony....
(Chorus)
He Let You Go
Now you want me
But I've Changed This Time
I've Changed My Mind
You Say Your Heart Wants Me
But I Know Its a Lie
Stop For Me....
(Echo)Stop For Me...........
Stop Lying To Me
Just Let Me Go
Just Let Me Leave
Now Lets Take  A Look See
At Before You Left Me
I Gave You Everything
Even Put Hot Water In Your tea
Then You Got Greedy
You Wanted More Then Me
You Found Him And
Thought You Found A Diamond Ring
When He Really Came Out A $.25 Machine
(Chorus)
He Let You Go
Now you want me
But I've Changed This Time
I've Changed My Mind
You Say Your Heart Wants Me
But I Know Its a Lie
Stop For Me....
(Echo)Stop For Me...........
Stop Lying To Me
Just Let Me Go
Just Let Me Leave
Now You See Me In Your Dreams
Your Hearts Missing Me
You Want Me To Love You
But I've Learned Not To Trust
To Not Love
I'm No Longer Loves Fool.
I Won, You Lose
(Chorus)
He Let You Go
Now you want me
But I've Changed This Time
I've Changed My Mind
You Say Your Heart Wants Me
But I Know Its a Lie
Stop For Me....
(Echo)Stop For Me...........
Stop Lying To Me
Just Let Me Go
Just Let Me Leave
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
My mind is going in circles,
But not at the thought of a woman.
For LIFE has chosen to bewilder me.
A hamster on a wheel
Running without moving forward.
My life goes on with no progress
Just time spent looking for happiness.
A puzzle that no person can solve,
Broken glass that cannot be fixed.
Life is juss for the living,
Yet, I find myself looking for meaning.
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Jay Bryant Jul 2013
As I stare into the vast darkness of the night,
The gears of start to rotate in my mind..
Slowly intertwining with one another for one purpose.
Oh, how I wish my thoughts were as organized as these gears.
Thoughts of mine are distorted and
never finely placed or have to do with a time, date, or place.
More of the feelings that give my mind life,
And the ability to comprehend the emotions of my fellow man.
Yet, as I write this I stand with my feet firmly in the ground
A tree that will not be uprooted,
And my mind is not close to the earth or near any dirt
It is above the compounds of moisture in the air that are called "Clouds".
How unorganized my thoughts are and separated my being is,
But I remain with my feet on the ground and mind above the clouds.
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
When you think of me do you think of what you feel or what you see? Do you just see the tattoos on my skin or can you feel what they mean to me. I am not a statistic or a numeral. I can not be put into any category for there is only one of me. Yet, two parts of me (Ying&Yan;;) My flesh that deceives you with a smile and a cheerful expression, and my soul which cannot tell a lie but can only cry and fantasize about not knowing the truth. "The truth shall set you free." if only these words were true to me.
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