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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.
Jul 2013 · 988
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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.
Jul 2013 · 718
Stop For 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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Jul 2013 · 775
Gears
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.
Jul 2013 · 523
Your Opinion Of Me
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.
Jul 2013 · 392
Before The End
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
While the darkness consumes me,
And the light that gives me life
Slowly diminishes.

I think of the life that's leaving me,
And the mistakes I've made.
I think of what people think of me.

Forever thinking,
My only defense to defend myself.
The pen is mightier then the sword.

Tho, my actions screech at my soul.
While my words are music.
Appeasing to my ears.

What will people think of me?
Will the pen defend me in the end
The light diminished.
Jul 2013 · 1.4k
Forbidden Pleasure
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I begin to feel the tingling
Sensation we call temptation
While the air is saturated with lust.
Her tongue is yearning for my skin.
And she is thinking of thing
deep within my pants..
Her hands only desire,
Is to rip off my attire,
and let this forbidden love begin.

I can feel the tenderness
Of her thighs,
But only with my eyes
Because I shall not touch.
This pleasure is forbidden,
But I can't help but mention
Her curves and her figure
And how bad I want to taste.
My mind is starting scream
And my body is already weak.
This forbidden pleasure
Is mines to have and to own.
Jul 2013 · 1.6k
Material Things
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Its sad to see
People of my generation
Looking for material things
Leaving love abaft
And not looking back.
Eyes dead forward
Never in the past
Not looking for their mistakes
While they dead in they face
Minds are to abstracted
Steady distracted
Envying material things.
The pain that it brings
When these things
Are lost in a fire.
It burns my heart to know
They think they bought
Their soul, but never
learned
True
happiness.
Jul 2013 · 498
Look Into My Eyes
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Look deep into my eyes,
And feel my pain....

You think that's a smile,
But my teeth grinding
Its not the same
These scars on my body
Helped prove my name.
I'm a tree that's cut
Stumped,
But I'll grow again.
Don't dandle my ego
So when they oppugn
My character.
I can reconcile my name.
Display the calluses
On my hands,
Because I can't show
The blisters on my brain.
Thoughts so deep
Ideas bleed out my vain.

Look deep into my eyes,
And feel my pain....
Jul 2013 · 485
My Song
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Tonight is the night
That I show you I could do it
I prove to all you skeptics
That harmony is found
In more then music.
That when I guide
Away from success
You can still see
My shoe print

Tonight I will display
The song that is my life,
God may have
Made the melody
Tho, these lyrics I write
I hope you can feel
My heart beating
As I transcribe
The words
That control my days,
Knowing with one
Mistake my
Breath can
Be taken
Away
Jul 2013 · 502
O.B.E.
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
"PAUSE!"
Momentarily ceasing my reality.
Presenting me the opportunity
To dissect this somber situation.
Peering into a dimly lit room
I find myself sulking,
Pondering in a depressive manner.
What is my affliction?
I cannot truthfully answer this.
Tho, I am slowly
Digging this hole deeper.
Tho, I know I am alive
I ask "Have I died?"
"Play!" I say to myself
But my life is still paused.
Can I animate the corpse
I have become,
Or has this opportunity decayed?
Jul 2013 · 570
"Relative Thinking"
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I reside of the dark side of the internet
Wisely compiling knowledge
On how Mother Earth is being taken hostage,
On numerous projects that’s create statistics,
Promises of peace that seems far from realistic.
Numbers that count every human life
Without putting any real value on a humans’ life
You tell me, what life & its’ people have
Done to you…Well….
It's done the same to me too
Along with many others
But don't give up
My sisters & brothers
Look out for one another
This doesn't make sense
To fight & belittle ourselves
Don't you know?
That we originate from wealth,
Why must we endanger our health?
Be Labeled at risk….
When already
We're the number 1 target
On their list
I didn't come here… “To preach”
Leave that jazz to the bishop
“I Came To Teach…...”
This infection of deception that’s going viral
How do I know? Look in your bible
Read up on the world
Don’t sit or stand idle
Your life is in your hands
To survive you must understand survival
Is life worth freedom or freedom worth life?
Is it worth the pain the tears and the sacrifice?
By Jay Bryant and Grayson Bell
Jul 2013 · 1.1k
Unbreakable
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
POETRY COLAB WITH
SKILLED POET & JAY POETRY

"UNBREAKABLE"

(SKILLZ) :
HONESTLY, I'M NOT USED 2
SITTING & WAITING
BY THE PHONE ,
IT'S 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
& BABY I'M JUST NOT
USED 2 BEING ALONE .

(JAY POETRY) :
LATE NIGHTS ON THE JOB
MAKE MY HEART SOB
& THIS CLOCK SEEMS 2 STOP
WHEN I THINK OF YOU
BEAUTY IS UR PRESENCE
U MUST BE SENT FROM HEAVEN
BUT IT'S HELL SPENDING
TIME AWAY FROM U .

(SKILLZ) :
SO WE WON'T ,COME CLOSER
RESIST ME ...DON'T
I'D NEVER REFUSE UR TOUCH,
UR SCENT IS CAPTIVATING
BABY I'VE TRIED 2 QUIT
THIS HABIT BUT
I NEED U SO MUCH .

(JAY POETRY) :
HOW I WISH U WOULDN'T
MISS ME SO MUCH
HOW I CRAVE UR SCENT
UR TOUCH
2 FEEL UR BREATH
ON MY NECK
UR HEAD ON MY CHEST
BUT THIS 10 TO 6
WEIGHS ME DOWN ,
NO WAY 2 JUST WORK AROUND
THIS JOB
BABY MY CAREER IS YOU ....

(SKILLZ) :
& 4 U I'M THAT FOOL
I LIVE 4 UR SMILE ,
& I WAS HOPING SOMEDAY
U MIGHT JUST ALLOW ME
2 KEEP U
IF ONLY 4 A LITTLE WHILE .

(JAY POETRY) :
HOPE HOW I HOPE 2 KEEP
THIS FEELING & 2 KEEP UR LOVE
KEEP SEEING UR FACE
IN THIS PLACE THAT HAS
NO MEANING 2 ME WITHOUT U
I PROMISE 2 STAY
DEVOTED 2 U
IF ONLY U MAKE IT
THRU THE NIGHT I'M PRAYING
4 MORNING....

(SKILLZ) :
I WILL MAKE IT
THRU THE NIGHT
UR HEART IS MY STRENGTH
WITH UR LOVE
I'M NEVER WEAK ,
I'M LISTENING BABY
2 EVERY WORD
EVERY WORD U SPEAK ...

(JAY POETRY) :
I'M LISTENING 4 UR HEARTBEAT
LOOKING INTO UR EYES
FEELING UR BODY MOVE
AS U DREAM UP A NEW LIFE
A LIFE WITH NO BILLS
NO HEADACHES
CLEAN SLATE ,

(SKILLZ) :
I UNDERSTAND MY LOVE
CUZ AT THIS POINT
WE HAVE BECOME ONE,
UR FACE IS ALL I SEE
BRING FORTH MORNING SUN .
I AM WITH U 2 DAY BABY
I AM WITH U 2 MORROW,
NO DRAMA
NO TEARS
NO DISAPPOINTMENTS
NO SORROW !
(I PROMISE )

WRITTEN BY :
SKILLED POET & JAY POETRY
Jul 2013 · 369
Blinded
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Its eye opening
To see the friends
That I use to have
How people use to be.

Things are going wrong
Tho I still sing my song
At the end of the night
My foresight's gone
I can't see the light,
Stuck in a dark hole
I cant feel the path
Go straight
Don't swerve
Jul 2013 · 457
Truth is Knowledge
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I love to be misunderstood
Tho, my words stand for me
If only they understood.

I speak what I feel
All that is real to me
Love, Life, and Knowledge.
I only utter what is real
And what I view as Truth.

Truth is Knowledge.
If you know what is wrong
Reality, will crush you in the end
Your heart, is in collusion with
What you know

Truth is left to conspire
With Reality against your thoughts.
Leaving me to exercise my right,
And inhale it all keeping my at ease.
Jul 2013 · 563
The Struggle
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I gaze out my window,
And see poverty at its greatest.
Minorities co-existing, mingling,
Scraping up change to make pennies.
My stomach groans at witnessing this.

It sets a fire in my soul,
Momentum starts to burn.

How I yearn for the end of this struggle
Yet its all I know,
Leaving me with no place to go.
Striving to live since birth
This pain is my way.

This pain is my way
It sets a fire in my soul
Leaving me with no place to go.
Scraping up change to make pennies.
Momentum starts to burn.
Scramble my words.
Jul 2013 · 882
Deliverance
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I'm delighted to see
That my generation
is different.
They're devotion to the arts
Astounds me,
And directs me to joy.

They do not dilute or water down
The words that leave them.
They know what I did not.

I was once devilish.
My words were slanderous,
With intent to destroy.
Now I direct my knowledge
To downsize the dismay
Of my friends and family.

The distraught way
Of thinking
That once devoured
My life and,
Set me on a path
of destruction
Has vanished,
And I have found
Tranquility.
Jul 2013 · 312
This Life
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
When all noise has ceased
And the air is clear.
My mind keeps working
Incessantly spinning gears.

So let me speak
These words I hear
Let me hope
You may comprehend.
Heed my speech
Give me your ear.

This life I live
This life I love
I serve my heart
I serve my love
Take pride in fault
Proud of mistakes
Fear only God
This life he can take.
Jul 2013 · 378
Your Rose
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Sit and watch slowly
As this rose blooms firmly
A color that is glowing
And petals that will show me.
The way to alleviate your pain,
And love all that remains.

Let me hand you this rose
And love you long.
Brighten your day
So I can see you display
Affection and kindness
Your love I will never miss
Because it will never leave me.

So turn to me Miss
And give me a kiss
Give me your hand
So you can understand
What I'd like to do to you.

Let us start on the bed
As I remove your pants
Then spread your legs
So I can put it in.
You scream You moan
I change the song
I turn you around
Our worlds spin now
So wet So sweet
How I love to eat
Your head goes down
You taste your treat.
We fight for the top
And roll on the floor
I hold you down
You scream for more
I dig in deep
You grind your teeth
Your toes start to curl
I touch your rose
Its wet and fertile

So let us grow, and let us go
To the ends of the earth,
But let us first
Find Love.
Jul 2013 · 423
Your Rose
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Sit and watch slowly
As this rose blooms firmly
A color that is glowing
And petals that will show me.
The way to alleviate your pain,
And love all that remains.

Let me hand you this rose
And love you long.
Brighten your day
So I can see you display
Affection and kindness
Your love I will never miss
Because it will never leave me.

So turn to me Miss
And give me a kiss
Give me your hand
So you can understand
What I'd like to do to you.

Let us start on the bed
As I remove your pants
Then spread your legs
So I can put it in.
You scream You moan
I change the song
I turn you around
Our worlds spin now
So wet So sweet
How I love to eat
Your head goes down
You taste your treat.
We fight for the top
And roll on the floor
I hold you down
You scream for more
I dig in deep
You grind your teeth
Your toes start to curl
I touch your rose
Its wet and fertile

So let us grow, and let us go
To the ends of the earth,
But let us first
Find Love.
Jul 2013 · 452
Misled
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
GRIEF!
This is the emotion I feel
As I watch these "boys"
Playing follow the leader
Mislead to thinking
They have a destination.
When they pursue
Nothing more than a dream.
More than false hope.
Less acceptable ways to cope,
With the pain they've found.
More drugs than I can name
Less reason they're all the same.
They just try to contend with life,
But soon they will see
A "boy" misleads them,
And the dream that they chase
Could never be attained
Without the direction of a Man.
Jul 2013 · 443
To Those Who Suffer
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
If you think your is pain great,
And your anguish is too strong.
If you think you don't have
What you need to go on.

If you think the dark
Is way past your knees,
Or you don't have the strength
To do what need.
If you think the fire in your heart
Is slowly diminishing.

Let me tell you what I know
With hopes to soothe your soul.

I know that you can do it.
I know you can go on.
I know that in the end
You'll still be standing strong.

I know the pain is bad,
But I know that you are great.
I know you won't give in
Too a little heartache.
I know that out the dark
You'll soon see the light.
You just have to stay strong
And make it through the night.
Jul 2013 · 1.1k
Carpe Diem
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
As I sit in deep thought
The only thought
on my mind is You.
When I'm with you
I know that I'm alive
I'm alive with you.

My emotions say its love,
But is it more then love?
I get a chill at your touch
I'm soaring with the doves.

Take my time with you
Live these days with you.
Seize the day with you.

Take advantage of the time
Or maybe fight with time.
My stomach starts to clench
Because  we may be out of time.
My heart will leave with you,
I'll find you both with time.
Tho, I'll take this time with you
To say I loved my time with you.

Take my day with you
Live these days with you.
Seize the days with you.
Jul 2013 · 433
Butterfly
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Her beauty mocks me.
A graceful butterfly
Once blessing me
With her presence.

Tho, as life took its toll
I slowly lost hold and,
She swiftly flew into the sky.

Her beauty escaped me
Leaving me lost for words
And paralyzed with the fear
Of losing her,
Before she was mines.
Who knew butterflies could bite?

Cupid choked me
Her love revoked mines
Tho, I still think.
This lock and key
Belongs to this butterfly
Jul 2013 · 330
Love Games
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Have they learned?
Do they know?
The seed they reap.
Is the seed they sow.

Are the games of love,
The games the know?

Do they cause Bedlam
In hearts pure as snow?
Do they cause your pain
That lies deep inside?

Do they care,
that you cry?
That the lies they tell
Brings tears to eyes.
Can they face you
When your teary eyed?
Will they tell the truth
Or will they lie?
Jul 2013 · 344
Love Games
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Have they learned?
Do they know?
The seed they reap.
Is the seed they sow.

Are the games of love,
The games the know?

Do they cause Bedlam
In hearts pure as snow?
Do they cause your pain
That lies deep inside?

Do they care,
that you cry?
That the lies they tell
Brings tears to eyes.
Can they face you
When your teary eyed?
Will they tell the truth
Or will they lie?
Jul 2013 · 3.9k
Tough Love
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I can see
The jealousy in there eyes,
And hear the envy
Of there tone.
I can only grieve,
and hope that they learn.

They need to know
that life comes with pain,
and the way we live
Isn't always great.

Don't tell them the ups
Tell them the downs.
They need to think.
Before they drown.
Teach them a lesson
Don't bail them out
Love them tough
Hate the crowd.
Jul 2013 · 396
Let Them Learn
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
All kids of today seem to say
"I already know, I'm grown."

So let them see the world
Not what they watch on tv.
Show them the struggles of life
So they know that its not easy.
Tell them that I'm hungry
Yet,my refrigerator is empty.

Life's not what they believe
So let them strive with problems
Then hope they see.
Turn them down profusely
When they ask for wants not needs.

Poverty equals suffering
There's a long road for change
But this kids must know
Life's not all fun and games.
Observe their wrong doing
Then proceed to say

"I only hold my tongue to let you learn. Your mistakes and pain will be your teacher. "
Jul 2013 · 558
Clear My Mind
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Its time to clear,
My thoughts again
Betray my mind.
Betray my skin.

These thoughts of love
Leave me at wits end.
Please, end my faith
Or cease the martyrdom.

It could be complications,
Maybe some hesitation
My fist clench,
At the pure vexation.

My mind hates you
Because, my heart loves you
I'm not with you in flesh
But, I'm always thinking of you.

Stonewall these thoughts
I'm thinking of you
My mind hates you
Because, my heart loves you.
Jul 2013 · 467
The Men of Today
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
"Treasure my accomplishments" The only thought on men's mind.
They want the joy that's lies behind your eyes.
They have success tho, they still can't find it.

They want to know more, and give less.
Strive to be the best, and keep others conscience of their success.
Live their life to the death, but the fear of dying brings a threat.

They want to be remembered through out time.
Tho, aren't willing to self sacrifice.
They're money can buy them cars, but can't buy time.
So why not share it while they still have time?

They want to know if their praised,
while their bodies lay at rest.
If their accomplishments speak for
Them when their lips are sewed shut.
Tho, the dead don't know so they won't know.

"For the living are conscience they will die,
but as for the dead they are conscience of nothing at all"
So let them give more and take less
Then teach others the ways of success.
Jul 2013 · 473
Time Bomb Called Love
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Back to the thing called "love."
Again with the mystery
That confuses me and leaves
Dynamite placed within my mind.

It is funny how people say they
Want to "find" the love that's
Constantly talked about.
How can they "find" love
When who know's what it truly is.

Love is a ticking time bomb
Just not set with the time on it.
It jumps from 3 to 10 back down to 1
You never know when it will blow.

Oh the joy loves brings, but also
Love brings pain and suffering.

I am suffering in complete agony.
How long will I love but not be with
The one that I love in flesh.
For I am forever with her in spirit.

When will the waiting end,
Nights of loneliness cease to exist.
When will the joy begin again,
Or the anguish concludes its trip.
When will my heart stop bruising
My ribs, this bomb lay dormant again.
When will she return to me,
And these I hold stop leaving me.
O how I wish this bomb to explode.
Jul 2013 · 510
A "Good Home"
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I wonder if I was born
Into a "good home."
Would my life be
For the better
Or maybe I'm wrong.

Automatic assumptions
Deeming ones dealings
Right or wrong by his associates.
Tho, how can they judge family.

You may not consider
They I was raised as being
Substantial ones means of living
Were harsh,poor, impoverished
But, what material needs I lacked
I found that love substituted them.

Now I may not be raised best,
And I have been through stress,
But I can cope with the tragedies
Of this world, this life, this time.

I've been equipped with strength
I won't fold, crack, bend, or break
Under pressure or adversity.
What is a run uphill to the one
Who lives on the mountain?

So before you pit me against
Your standards your rules
Your regulations and your test.

Take a walk in my shoes
See if you can live my life without
Compliant, and go through my pains
And struggles of the day to day world.
Consider my options and take into
Account my life and my family.
Will you crack under the pressure?
Jul 2013 · 611
Love And War
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I find that I'm at War!
My enemy has ambushed me.
I wish to fight back, but I must retreat.
My opponent knows my weakness
She carries it in her hand.

My heart, my weakness, her ally.
My heart has betrayed my trust.
My heart insinuates surrender.

I place my faith in my mind.
Tho, my thoughts are susceptible
To my hearts line of thinking.
I cannot win this war.

The odds are placed against me.
As each scenario runs in my mind.
I find myself running out of time.

I'm hurt I've lost a leg to a land mine
Passion took away what I stood for.
The war was lost, she has my love.
Jul 2013 · 404
Memories
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
If only I could
Lose my mind to lose stress
My heart wants to think,
But my mind wants the rest.
What pill do I take
When my heart is depressed?
Can it suppress the pain?
Or is this just a test?

This fire is cold
Or, maybe I don't feel the burn.
Numb to the flesh
So, I am tortured
By the thoughts in my soul
My intimate emotions
My inner most secrets.
The skeletons come to life.
My memories bring suffering.

The pain was suppressed
The memories were suppressed
I haven't lost my mind or the stress.
These words leave my heart depressed

Misunderstood by everyone,
But I know I understand myself.
Jul 2013 · 506
Dreaming
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Closer,
I need her closer to me,
She seems to pull away
Except when I am dreaming
Her presence is always fleeting
If only this could be something more.
Evolve in to something meaningful
Well to her, because it means to me.
What gives me the gumption?
When I see her I hear a song
Not full of words just melody
Words are meaningless but,
Feeling means everything.
I feel her, she feels me.
Our love fills our life.
And we live happily.
My perfect reality.
Is just a dream.
I live for this
I live for my
Dreams.
Jul 2013 · 521
Can We Fall In Love Again
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Can we re-ignite the fire,
That once consumed our soul.
Can we bring to life
The emotions we felt so long ago.
Can we hold strong
To the words we once said.
Refill the rivers
That our love once fled.
Can we bring to light,
The things that are now dark.
Dig deep down,
And illuminate our hearts.
Can we reverse,
This pain we hide inside.
Or has the seed
We planted, withered and died.
Can we fall in love again?
Jul 2013 · 351
What am I to Say
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
What am I suppose to say.
When I begin to feel this way.
My heart thumps against my chest.
Blood and pain swell my brain.
I'm pulled back into the darkness
Imprisoned in the terror she's made.
I gasp for air and agony hits my throat.
This agony closes my airways.
My heart is thrown to the ground.
Leaving vultures to abuse my emotions
She has hidden her face from my eyes.

What am I suppose to say.
When I'm mentally locked away.
When she takes a razor blade
And carves in my heart her name.
What am I suppose to say.
When my throat is raw and sore
From screaming her name.
What am I suppose to say.
When she torments me
Leaving me with no resting place.
What am I suppose to say.
When I think of her and,
These tears burn my face.
What am I suppose to say.
When she can not hear me,
And she has left me naked.
Jul 2013 · 389
Life & Love
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
I lay close to the ground
Exhausted, gagged, and bound.
Life has drug me through thorns,
And beaten me mercilessly.
My hands have be grind down
So that I may not help myself.
My blood stains the floor
I screech out of agony
While these pangs deprive me
Joy and pleasure and happiness
Cannot be found within me.
For life has taken them from me.

In regards to her,
She has widened my wounds,
And poured salt inside of them.
She brings me to silence
Only my suffering can be heard.
She has conspired with life
To ensure that I live.
My torture will not be brief.
Life & love has impaled me.
Jul 2013 · 885
Me & You Against The World
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
When the world
Takes you from me
Just remember my name.
Remember all of the love,
And try to forget the pain.
Promise you'll do this and,
I'll promise to do the same.

I apologize for this love
Because it caused this pain.
Tho, give me the chance,
The chance to do it all again,
I'd do it in the begin but,
I'd need to change the end.
This tragedy made me learn life
This love made me learn pain.

Remember my name
When this world takes you.
I will always love you
Even when the world rapes you.
It has ***** my heart and,
Molested my brain.
I apologize for the hurt.
Please forget the pain.
Jul 2013 · 472
#5 Feeling High
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Let the smoke feel the air,
Burning oxygen out the atmosphere.
My lungs expanding
Struggling to cope with invasion
This drug invades my body,

Leaving my thoughts on the ground.
My thoughts leave my head
I strive to catch reality
It slips through my fingers
Now I live completely in my head.

Blowing with the leaves
Peacefully being controlled
Invisible forces controls me

Leaning, and spinning
My thoughts make my lean
These thoughts leave me spinning

I twist off this cloud
Gravity bring me down
My mind lifts off the ground
The high of the drug has left me now.
Jul 2013 · 470
#8 Good Morning
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
The clouds part and the day breaks,
The sun spreads warmth on your face
Birds sing a tune that excites your ear
Like deer the melody prances
Majestically through your dreams.
Your body begins to feel the cool breeze
Your living in your own reality
Yet, you feel your not in reality
This sensation fills you mind
You realize your really in your mind
The light comes from the window
It burns the crust off your eyes
Allowing you to open them
And come to believe that its real.
You leave your imagination behind
You'll come back for it in time.
As hard as rock it is to say.
"Good Morning" its time to start your day
Jul 2013 · 572
#9 Dear Girl
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
To the girl with the legs and the thighs
That distracts the minds of young men. Not knowing what older women know
That these men are not concerned
Nor concentrated with her opinions
Caring about nothing on her mind
Only what's between her thighs
Her ****** snatches their minds.
So they try to play her emotions
Toying with the way she feels
Fooling her deceiving her heart
Leaving her inebriated in thought
Thinking that she has what she wants
Not knowing that the game has started
A game of male and female, Confused?
She's distracted forgetting her teaching
Yes her mother tried to teach her well
She didn't learn about the deception
So enchanted by counterfeit love
She agrees to spread her legs
Believing she's making love
Tho, after her passion
He leaves her cold
No longer giving
Her what she wants
He's gotten what he wants
Pain penetrates her like nails.
She feels weak and fragile now
What can I say to this girl now?
Jul 2013 · 406
Who Is She?
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Now when I think of myself
She pops into my mind
Because without her there is no me.
So believe me when I say
That I long for the day
When her skin kisses mine
And the light within me finally shines.
Or the moment when
I look into her eyes
And she looks in minds.
Then, suddenly, tranquillity takes me.
She grabs the bull by its horn.
Making it show its true form
Just a masquerade from fear of shame.
You see this bull is a calf.
Needing affection and guidance.
Just time spent with him
Until he has learned to walk.
She nurtures my love
So when things tough
I'll be able to run.
Yes, she puts me on a pedestal
Raising me to the pinnacle
Of my emotional and spiritual well being.
But I fall off this cloud
When I hear the sound of me
Asking myself for her name.
A trick question bcuz I've yet to meet her
Jul 2013 · 474
Who Is She?
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
Now when I think of myself
She pops into my mind
Because without her there is no me.
So believe me when I say
That I long for the day
When her skin kisses mine
And the light within me finally shines.
Or the moment when
I look into her eyes
And she looks in minds.
Then, suddenly, tranquillity takes me.
She grabs the bull by its horn.
Making it show its true form
Just a masquerade from fear of shame.
You see this bull is a calf.
Needing affection and guidance.
Just time spent with him
Until he has learned to walk.
She nurtures my love
So when things tough
I'll be able to run.
Yes, she puts me on a pedestal
Raising me to the pinnacle
Of my emotional and spiritual well being.
But I fall off this cloud
When I hear the sound of me
Asking myself for her name.
A trick question bcuz I've yet to meet her
Jul 2013 · 519
Past, Present, Future
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
The love i give to her. Once again i think of her
If only she of thought of me, I wonder if she thinks of me?
More than bruised by my past, cut deep. Tho, I know this love is placed deeper within her.
I envision her not just in my future, but happily living with her until the end that’s forever.
Finding myself presently wishing she was present with me. Or that her presence was abundant in present day and time.
Previously my days were spent wishing i had more time with the girl I was previously with.
Feelings for that girl were prevalent in my heart, but they didn't help the mend cracks at all.
Tho, she looked past the fractures and fought to find how to mend my broken heart.
Ripping past infractions and infringements pitting me against her clean out of me.
How these thoughts of her entreat me, tho, I won't let myself be defeated.
Time strives to lead me away from her to break my devotion to her.
I will not abdicate my rights to her, so I endeavor and think of her.
If only time would past so I could meet her and forget my past.
Meet my future so I can my abandon my past.
I know if I meet her this love will last.
Jul 2013 · 327
Things You Left Me With
Jay Bryant Jul 2013
A pictures worth a thousand words
Tho, Looking at this picture
I'm lost for words
This feeling inside me
Makes me twitch and turn
Emotions catch fire and,
Burns at my soul
Trying to devour
The strength
I so despreately,
Hold on to
My eyes bring rain
Attempting to let go
Of the pain
You left me with,
Let me return to you
All that you left me with
These pieces of the puzzle
I thought it was love
Tho, the anger wont fit.
How I hate this picture
How I hate these things
Now you know
I hate everything
That you left me with
Jun 2013 · 973
Delusions
Jay Bryant Jun 2013
The sun is setting
While she is sitting beside me
Lonely, wishing I was with her
"I'm with you" I reassure her
Tho, these doubts never leave her
She screams at me but doesn’t speak
So clear I hear the things she saying


Naive to this game she's playing
My heart listens with no delaying
She bills her pain to my heart
Giving me the agony left behind
It hurts, but i grunt and set it aside.
I constantly sallow my pride
Trying to be the man i have to be
To keep her beside me
Tho, in reality she's left me
Not buying back her love from me
Merely, keeping my heart
I can still feel it on the ground


I'm no longer looking, to play these games
So I'm searching to find a way
To keep your name out of my brain.
Hoping to inculcate freedom or immunity
From this disease, this virus, this infection
Tho, the cure is far from perfection
So I make supplication for protection
From this thing that is pure deception
Because I am not with her nor she with me
The reassurance I assured her with was a myth
Suppression claws at my back, I suppress that fact
Only to cope and avoid the depression that is you
You left me, So in succession I should leave you
Tho, you have my heart so I find that hard to do
Jun 2013 · 3.9k
A Real Man
Jay Bryant Jun 2013
I say I'm a man
They say I'm underage
Does that make me a boy?
What is it that make them men?
So often I see greatness in expression
They say its real but I say its talk without action
I've learned to learn these things harder then others
My life is filled with compassion for others
I only fear that the reaction of others
Will smother me and the things that I mother
All the things these people have love for
Not loving there own mothers or fathers
So many fathers without children rather
Most of these children are without fathers
These men don't take care of they're flesh
Only using the 24 hours God gave them for themselves
So let my childhood pass me so I can show these men
That I've found in the few real men around me
They think of only my age and not of my brain
Trying to relate their lives to that of my own
Making my life out of experiences they've experienced
This is the mistake they've made not knowing
The things I know so many mistakes
Tho, I've learned from the ones I've made
These men aren't men through actions
That's the fact that I know
Jun 2013 · 484
#18 (The Saga)
Jay Bryant Jun 2013
Unique
Different from the rest
They're more than slightly upset
That my thoughts can't
Be viewed on their television set
You have your doubts
So go, put my words to the test
My knowledge, Truth
Thicker than any bullet proof vest
Stuck in the present
But I've already moved to the next
I find that they are
Vexed by complex ideas of life
It stresses us all
Tho, with the right plan we stand
We never fall
Not failing to achieve our aspirations
So aspire
Look forward to things that won't pass
Gun's and Butter
Butter melts away, but Guns Last
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