Mark Tilford

Mark Tilford Feb 2016

A man

A man that never wore a crown of thorns
That never grabbed life by the horns
Avoided all the yellow lights flashing and what it warned
Never looked into the mirror, so he would not have to see what it really showed
A man
That did not listen to all that was told
A man that did not travel on the smooth roads
But always took the side roads
A man that did not belong to any zip coed
A man
That never received or never gave, there was nothing owed
and nothing borrowed
A man
That stuck close to the railroad
not carrying where it would go
Never saying hello
A man
That preferred to be a John Doe
That would never  stay awhile
That would always look ahead to the next mile
with a smile
A man
With his  own lifestyle
Making it all worthwhile
Never having to reconcile
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Mark Tilford Feb 2016

God's Power

God's Power
Comes from our prayer
As we speak his words into the air
and we share
As we care
When we ask him to take care of our despair
To take care of our burdens
To ease our hurting's
And we listen to his sermons
and we
continue our leanings
From us preparing for his Son's return
From his Son's love that we yearn
Stopping our sin and to him we turn
From showing others our concern
Showing him all that we have learned
From us quenching someone's thirst
From us following his laws
That we have never cursed
From us putting him first
Even when we are at our worst
From us believing that he sent his only son to us
And ask him to die for us
From the love from us
and from us knowing
that he
believes in
"US"
!!

Mark Tilford Feb 2016

What keeps me awake at night

My desires
How I had to defy her
All of my priors
More so all of the liars
The sound of the choir
Life, in it's entire
The love that I require
The sound of gunfire
Always being in the line of fire
Fearing the ball of fire
Trying to figure out all of the secrets
The treatments
My weakness
Bleakness
People's sleekness
All of my fears
Thinking about all the past years
And what caused all of my tears
And
What will appear
That might cause my love to disappear
The thinking of my peers and their smears
Death
When will I take my last breath
What keeps me up at night
My fears of
"ME"
!!

Mark Tilford Feb 2016

Live Your Life And Be Happy

**** !!
Life is to short to be sappy
Every day does not have to be ******
BE HAPPY !!
Moment to moment
Day to day
BE BRAVE!!
**** being gray!!
Go ahead and stray
Find a way to
PLAY, PLAY,PLAY
Yell "Hey"
Soak up the suns rays
**** THAT WORD NEIGH
Sing like the blue jay
Life is to **** short to delay
Everyday is not doomsday
A "HEYDAY"
With lots of foreplay
Make some headway
Lots of horseplay
On Friday
On Saturday
REST ON SUNDAY
Start over on
Monday
Continue on Tuesday
More on Wednesday
Smiling on Thursday
Sing that song on the freeway
Don't stop when you pull into the driveway
MIDAY ALL DAY !!
"BE GAY"
Live Your Life And Be
HAPPY
!!

Mark Tilford Feb 2016

Here

Looking to the left
Looking to the right
As I walk out the door
I have been each way before
Lord knows, I have seen it all before
Sadly so much I have ignored
My m.o. has been to run away
I never stay
So much strength it took for me to say
Risk, I never take at all
Time and time again, I fall
Consistently hitting my head against the wall
I have never learned with life and love you need to crawl
I am never in it for the long haul
Love should be above it all
I am so far apart from my heart
It ends before it starts
My mind, my heart, it outsmarts
I never look back
Is it compassion that I lack?
The reason all my loves I highjack
and attack to keep me on the fast track
Now that another ends
and fades away
I find myself
Again
Looking to the left
Looking to the right

Love nowhere near
Here

                    !!

Mark Tilford Feb 2016

Nearing Death

I have to ask
and
I need to know

I have to ask
Why did so many people run in wolf packs
Turn away
To the misery of people everyday
Turn their backs and just walk away
As though they were dead prey
Day after day
Why did their evil  have to show
Why did they stroll with no human coed
Always traveling the nowhere roads
Knowing and knowed

I have seen
Children hold out their hand
Nothing it would land
All I saw were people turn their head
And
Pretend that they did not see that someone had bled
And
That there were people that needed to be fed

I need to know...WHY?
Did
People see only white or black
Turning there backs on people that were black
Yes, they did
It is fact

I need to know ...WHY?
So many people let their love go
and let it just fade away
Turn their heads and just walk away
Instead of facing the facts
Of why their lives lacks

I have to ask ..WHY??
People take their own lives
Easily
As though there was nothing to loose
or
Drown their lives in *****
Caused by so much abuse
All we did was make up an excuse

Near Death
I have to ask
and
I have to know
Are you going to keep turning your backs
And hide into the black

There is so much more I have to ask
and I need to know
Before
I reach the day of my death.
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