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Sep 2015 · 433
REALITY
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
Adam marries Eve
Now Adam can marry Steve
And
Eve marries Eve
"Reality"
We live to work
Instead of working to live
Seems to be contrived
As all our lives is on a down hill dive
Day to day trying to survive
I don't think that is called "Arrived"
"Reality"
Afraid to go to the theater
Might run into a hater
That will cause us to meet our creator
"Reality"
Sending our kids off to high school
And preschool
Not knowing if they will return
Is that what they were sent there to learn ??
"To never return"
It's a shame
But
"Reality"
The rich getting richer
The poor getting poorer
That we can ensure
Something we all will have to endure
Reality
War after war
Nation against nation
The fear of others reactions
Then sending our troops into action
Reality
Populations explode
Where water no longer flows
People leaving by the busloads
Watching our lands erode
Ah! the human coed
Reality
Global warming
All kinds of warnings
People misinforming
That should be informing
No reforming
Our world of
Reality!
"The world or the state of things as they actually exist"
!!
Sep 2015 · 220
My Soul
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
Keeping me from the places that are dark and cold
Digging me out of hole after hole
Trying to keep me in control
My Soul
Taps me on the right
Taps me on the left
Stopping the thoughts of theft
Telling me to pick my fights
Keeping me brave, pushing away all the fright
Keeping me strong
Not leaving me for long
My Soul
Whispers in my ear
She is right
He is wrong
Singing it's song
Leading me away from what is wrong
My Soul
Keeping me from the in evitable
Pretty awesome and incredible
It keeps my life credible
My Soul
Keeping me on the right path
Keeping me from God's wrath
I hope it does not fail
I guess time will tell
If it does
And I go to hell
I hope it can pay my bail
As I wait to exhale
My Soul
!!
Sep 2015 · 233
LEAVE
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
Pack your bags
Take all your **** rags
Stay and watch the ******* things burn
Of course you would not turn
I told you to leave and not come inside
But no
you had to stay and watch me try
to commit suicide
You never let anything slide
All the nagging
and always bragging
Us always playing a game of tag
Making my life a drag
You always seemed to be on the rag
Always running the streets to find someone to ****
You always took the chance to go out stag
Get the **** out
Just leave!!
Don't worry about me
I will find someone that loves me for me
I don't give a **** if they are a little insane
We will pop a bottle of champagne
There will not be anymore chains
Won't lay blame
With no games
Nothing to explain
Finally someone with a brain
Get the **** out
Just leave !!
Nothing more to disbelieve
No more being afraid you will conceive
Nothing more to grieve
All the later **** just makes me want to heave
Nothing more to share between
I have cut all of our strings
So get the **** out
And just
Leave
Please
   !!
Sep 2015 · 231
IF I
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
If I lost everything
Would you stay the same
Or would you count your blessings
Just because I was honest and started confessing
Would there be anymore caressing
If not and you should stop how depressing

IF I

If I should loose my eyesight
and could not see
Would you leave me
Or would you stay
And see for me, lead me
Would you squawk at
the people that would stand around and gawk

IF I

If I for some reason  could not walk
Would you stay and help walk
Keep having our long night talks
Not set around a bock
And watch the clock
Instead, would you make sure I made it to see the Doc.

IF I

If I stopped loving you
Would you set around and do nothing
and let things brew
Get blue
Would you keep loving me and
try to make everything new
or would you give up and we both loose
Would you put up a fight for what you knew

IF I

If I could not make love to you
Would you find other ways
Without any delays
I hope you would not find anyone else
and stray and runaway
I would hope you would be brave and
stay

IF I

If I could not live
and had to die
Would you stay through thick and thin
Would you be my nurse
Up to the time for the hearse
Or would you just turn off the life support
and abort

IF I

If I could not be
What you wanted me to be
or what you saw in me
All this really happened to me
Would you remember
The vow
That was
and is  

For the better and for the worst
Until death do us part

                    !!
Sep 2015 · 229
I am who I am
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
I am who I am
Sure I play
Love a good roll in the hay
Shame it's not everyday
It's got to be my way
Yep, you need to be brave
Once we engage
O.k., call it misbehave
Afterwards !!
I will be what you crave
I am who I am
I will always speak my mind
Pull back and I try to be kind
I am not a person that is refined
What the hell
"Touching glasses with my cocktail"
" Do tell "
But into the detail
I am who I am
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words will never hurt me
Get my drift
Make it swift
Don't listen to senseless ****
I am who I am
My friends I would never betray
Just loyal in that way
Count on me everyday
I am who I am
Tough, rough and a little gruff
So they say
I am that way
What do they want a powder puff
I am who I am
I will stand up for what I believe
I will more then likely never reprieve
I guess hard headed and set in my ways
"Hey" I can blame that on my age
I am who I am
I want apologize
For who
Or what I am

" I am who I am"
          !!
Aug 2015 · 943
Can you take a chance on me
Mark Tilford Aug 2015
Is there a chance I could fit into your life
If not
Stab me with a knife
No reason to talk about it
Walk around it
Or think about it
Is there a chance
You see what I see
Feel what I feel
This is not lets make a deal
Ask
We could talk over a meal
Sounds Ideal
No baggage here
Nothing that needs to heal
If there is a chance
Don't be shy
Take a chance on me
Be all we can be
What would it take for you to agree
To take a chance on me
I can guarantee
There would be great *** with me
Kick the others to the curb
While using an action verb
I promise I want think your disturbed
Then you will see more then just a blur
When you take a chance on me
Your mind then will be clear
Then no reason to call anyone else dear
I will be the one that will  always appear
When you take a chance on me
I will be quick to fall to my knees
There will be more then wine and cheese
I know for a fact you will feel the breeze
and you will be appeased
with no disagrees
By taking a chance on me
After this do you agree
To take a chance on me
Yep, Your right, if you think this is about you and me
It is what it seems
An invitation to be with me
                !
Aug 2015 · 720
Why do you give a damn?
Mark Tilford Aug 2015
Why do you give a ****?
If I sleep with a woman
or
If I sleep with a man
**** !!
It's my choice if I want to explore
At least you can't accuse me of being a bore
Why would you give a ****
If I drink to much, pass out and hit the floor
And if I stagger into the door
It sure did not bother you before
It's my business if I do it anymore
Maybe I am not the way I was before
My life is sure not going to be a chore
I will pull up my drawers
Stand up on all fours
Why do you give a **** ?
If I decide to smoke some ****
You are not the one that planted me
when I was just a seed
So with that, have we agreed??
" Concede"
****, why do you give a **** ?
My life is not about greed
I am freed
Guaranteed!!
NO my head does not need an exam
I will never be as passive as a little lamb
More like a Ram
What is a gram??
****!!
Why would you care
If I get into a jam
And sometimes act like a big ham
****!!
Why do you give a ****?
If I land face down in the dirt
or if I hurt
or if I am a big flirt
Not in my genes to be an invert
I will never turn my back on life to divert
Why would you give a ****?
I will tell you this I don't run any kind of scam
I am who I am
And
Frankly
I Don't give a ****
!!
Aug 2015 · 331
HIGHWAY 88
Mark Tilford Aug 2015
I am thinking of the memories over and over
The highway that lead me to no shame
How it's never changed
It has stayed the same
Lead me to love and never no pain
Showed how much I had to gain
As it was leading me away
It was begging me to stay
What would have happened
If I had never traveled and I had never seen
And I always had to wonder "where"
And I had never been there
Never left me in the dark
Could always count on it getting me home
Never left me alone
Taking me to my favorite fishing hole
"Charlie's Hole"
Where I was always stumping my toes
Where it snowed
But never stopped me from being on the go
Took me to Grandma's for homemade white cake
But it was not mine to take
It allowed me to walk
And me and it had some very long talks
Lead me to the back woods
Lead me to Indian Cliffs
Where that Indian Chief
Was carved into that rock and but still kind of stiff
Where I road in the back of my Grandpa's truck
Always keeping my head tucked
Lead me to my friends
Where there has never been any ends
Where still to this day it leads me home
Where I never feel alone
And
Someday it will lead to where I will have my finale rest
And
One last time it will lead me home
Jul 2015 · 332
This World
Mark Tilford Jul 2015
So many people using a gun
So many lashings by a tongue
Greed, a ton
The hatred is never done
Everything and everyone as to be outdone
It's just not fun
So many people shunned
The Bible redone
So many killings by someone's son
The life of the devil has begun
Love, there is none
This world
Becoming unfurled, uncurled
Staying in madness and in a twirl
The things in this world would make anyone hurl
What happened to God fearing
The good is disappearing
And everything is interfering
The bad being so domineering
No one cheering
The ugliness in people always appearing
This world is dying
And we just keep on denying and defying
While ignoring it's crying
Everyone keeps on lying
This world
Needs so much prayer
Do you think anyone would dare
or care
I hope they are aware
This is all our affair
Can't you see the despair

God is returning to this world beware

This World  
!!
Jul 2015 · 393
This thing inside of me
Mark Tilford Jul 2015
This thing inside of me
Destroying me
Weakening me
Sickening me
I hate to say, it's getting the best of me
Fighting back at me
Whipping me
Winning over me
I hate to say, it's getting the best of me
Eating at me
Worrying me  
Taking years from me  
I hate to say, it's  getting the best of me
Changing me
On the outside of me
On the inside of me
I hate to say, it's getting the best of me
So many needles stuck in me
Taking so much blood from me
So many Doctor's seeing me
I hate to say, it's getting the best of me
The hospital a second home for me
Nurses nursing me
It's getting to be to much for me
It's killing me

But

I refuse to let it get the best of me

I have to ask

Why me ?????

This thing inside of me!
Jun 2015 · 222
MY LOVE
Mark Tilford Jun 2015
My ray of sun
You took me to a place that made me not want to run
My wall came down and I did not put up a fight
Now only good thoughts fill my night
Don't mind taking a risk of being seen in the light
Can feel your embrace
In all and every place
How could something so great be a disgrace
Can never be displaced
It has to be embraced
This love no more dangerous
More like contagious
Just something in your voice
Something in your choice
Something in your smile
That makes me want to take this the full mile
The people looking in are the only ones that need to be in denial
It will never be disallowed
To the highest cloud
In the largest crowd
They will hear me proclaim the love that I have
I will be very loud
They will know that I am proud
About this love that I will always allow

MY LOVE

This is my vow!
Jun 2015 · 144
Secrets and Lies
Mark Tilford Jun 2015
How can we believe
What anyone says
With all our secrets and all our  lies
That through the years should have opened our eyes
That have made so many worlds collide
Reality
No one is ever who they seem
The secrets and lies and all in between
Something wrong with the fairytales and the dreams
It seems we have gone to extremes
Trying to think of some kind of scheme
To hide all the secrets and lies
All the time hidden and denied
Where none of the rules applies
Always defied none that we can ever abide by
It seems
How can we feel there is nothing to be redeemed
By keeping secrets and telling lies
Up until the time, it is time for us to die
Then we look up into the skies
To ask the Lord to forgive
All our secrets
and
All our lies
Hoping there will not be any denies

Honesty:
The quality of being honest!
May 2015 · 191
Self
Mark Tilford May 2015
Some say it's what is on the inside
Not what people see on the outside

But it's not the inside
It's what people see on the outside

It's not the inside
That attracts from the outside

It is the outside that attracts
To the inside

The outside
A cover for the inside

The inside
Never compares to the outside

The outside
Never seen as the inside

The inside
Is more then the outside

The outside
Hides the inside

The inside
Hardly seen on the outside

The inside
You should show from the outside

The outside self should be as well the inside self  
The inside self should be as well the outside self

Inside and outside just be your-self.
May 2015 · 245
WHEN I SEE YOU
Mark Tilford May 2015
I GET SICK TO MY STOMACH
AND WEAK IN MY KNEES
ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS MY NEED TO PLEASE
AT SO MANY LEVELS AND DIFFERENT DEGREES
JUST LIKE THE BIRDS AND THE BEES

WHEN I SEE YOU

IT'S NOTHING NEW
CAN'T YOU SEE THE WAY I LOOK AT YOU
THE WAY I SMILE AT YOU
THE WAY I TALK TO YOU
AND WHEN YOU LEAVE
I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU

WHEN YOU SEE ME

DO YOU SEE ME
AS I SEE YOU
CAN YOU GIVE ME A CLUE
SO I WILL KNOW RATHER IT IS TRUE
THAT YOU ADMIRE ME
AS I DO YOU
DO I MAKE YOU WEAK IN THE KNEES
DO YOU FEEL THAT NEED THAT YOU WANT TO PLEASE
AT SO MANY LEVELS AND DIFFERENT DEGREES
YOU KNOW LIKE THE BIRDS AND THE BEES

WE

THERE IS NO NEED TO HIDE
WHAT I SEE IN YOU
AND WHAT YOU SEE IN ME
WHEN WE ARE AROUND EACH OTHER
ALL WE DO IS STUTTER
AND SMILE AT EACH OTHER
AND NEVER  MENTION A WORD OF ANYTHING OTHER
WHY CAN'T WE JUST BE HONEST WITH ONE ANOTHER
AND TAKE IT TO SO MANY LEVELS AND DIFFERENT DEGREES
JUST LIKE THE BIRDS AND THE BEES

WHEN I SEE YOU
I HOPE YOU KNEW I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU
AND YOU WILL GIVE ME A CLUE

WILL YOU  ?
May 2015 · 1.4k
Met
Mark Tilford May 2015
Met
Sirens went off in my head
My brain had bled
After I had you in bed
I knew I just should have fled
But no, I stayed,  instead

We started this and I/we lived so far away
Missing you
All I can do Is lay around and fill lonely
You know that way
You feel when the one you love is so far away
And never around

If I don't see you soon and again
So afraid that there could be other men
You know those guys who look like Barbie's Ken
That have nothing on their mind but to get you back to their den

The phone calls are not enough
I have to feel your touch
I need it after that first night
And you were such a delight
You know all you have to do ask
I will catch the next flight

What are we waiting for
All we need to do is agree
There is no reason we should be an absentee

After months the phone calls stopped
I am going out of my mind
How could I have been so blind

No one loved me I thought like you
I guess every love you pay some dues
I can't stand the pain of not being with you
There is no more reason
With all this treason

I just shut my eyes
There will never be life or love
for me anymore.......

Do me a favor
Will you remember the night that we

MET
!!
May 2015 · 496
Perfect
Mark Tilford May 2015
So you think love is perfect
Something that would make us connect
Something so simply we can detect
Nothing that we would have to redirect
Something that we could not reject or
anything that we could deflect
Something that would have an affect

Our love
Something so perfect
That made us connect
That we both could detect
Life's on hold and everything on redirect
Something that we could not reject
or deflect
It had such an affect

At the end
Our love was perfect
Two hearts that was connected
Love that was still detected  
Never redirected
Never deflected

And it still had an affect

Perfect
May 2015 · 715
Love Me XXX
Mark Tilford May 2015
One
Is not enough for me
Three is better to me
One is not enough for me
Three can do so much more for me
One in front of me
Two in the back of me
Three is for me
Believe me
They don't run from me
One is not enough for me
When they are done with me
I will find three more
That will knock on the door, come in
And have their way with me
One in front of me
Two in the back of me
The only way for me
When I am done
I throw them out
They will cry
Because they could not get enough of me
One is not enough for me
Three do it for me
My king size bed
Three fill it up for me
One in front of me
Two in the back of me
No jealousy
They share me
Three is the only way for me
One just can't do it for me
Three heads are better then one
That's not me
I just want one that would do it for me
One that would
Love just me
Who said three is better
What a good fantasy
Believe me
One is plenty for me
As long as
They are loving just me

Love Me ***
May 2015 · 284
One of these days
Mark Tilford May 2015
The earth cracks  
We will all fall

The skies open
We will see all

The seas
Will drown us all

Fire
Will burn us all

Anger
Will take over us all  

Famine
Will starve us all

Disease
Will finish us all  

This world
Will end for us all

Until then maybe we
should show love
for all.........
Apr 2015 · 382
Baltimore
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
The city torn

The place they say is full of thugs
To me they are people that have had no hugs
And has been replaced with nothing but shrugs
And denied real love

In a country that was born on
Liberty and Justice for all
I have to wonder who is the all
Where is the liberty in it all  

In one city of many cities
Where your color
Is important to others
When we all should be standing as brothers

Where people have to act on their fears
Then die by the hand
Of the very people  
that should not be bringing on so many tears  

To think that life/a person
is something
that they cannot endure
Something so pure

So to the citizens of Baltimore
Fight your fight
Please do not give up don't let them  
see you in flight
Stand for what you know is right

Stay calm
Stay peaceful
And the out come will be right............
Apr 2015 · 270
My Life
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
A Presences
of me
what I want to be
I could
I would
I should
I would've
I could've
I should've
only me
within my boundaries
with no contradictions
with no expectations
me
no need to be anything
but
I had rather have rags
then riches
I could've
Rather be the fire
then the wood
I would
Rather be the flower
then the seed
If I could
Rather be the truth
then the secret
I should've
Rather be me
I could
I would
I should
I could've
I would've
I should've
been me!
Apr 2015 · 276
We
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
We
We are all the same in so many ways
Having the same game
Just trying to lay claim

All our backs up against the wall
Day to day trying not to fall
Keeping our heads up just to walk to tall

We are all the same
So many of us having the same name
Maybe looking for someone else to blame
And looking for just a little fame

We all bleed red
Right up until the time we are dead
Which is something we all dread
But it is ahead

We are all the same
Looking for a flame
Not wanting anything to disclaim
Sure not framed

We are just trying to live
Maybe wanting to give
Needing to forgive
Maybe sometimes wanting to relive

White, Black, Gay or Straight
When you see me
I will see you
We are all the same
That is something we all need to claim .........
Apr 2015 · 310
Love
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
What happened to
It's not in the cards
Something I am not waiting for
So far
What did I do
I have been to every place
Looking for
What is it waiting for
For me to go insane
While waiting for
Can't be over
When it's never been
For me so far
Hurting
I have decided it's never going to be for me
Not ugly
And have everything a man needs
If you know what I mean
It sure has been lean
Some say I just am in between
Maybe in a quarantine
Should I ask my Dean
What the word means
I would not say it's something that I deserve
Not to
Getting down
Will it come and change my mind
That it will never be mine
I have to believe
That someday
I will miss it
Then that will mean
I had it
And  it was mine..............
Apr 2015 · 345
Believe !
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
I had to believe
Once I was  conceived
Once It was  time for me to leave
Born not to disbelieve
Certainly nothing yet to grieve
That would make me not believe
Not yet deceived
As I grew I believed
There was so much that I/we could achieve
If only we would believe
In
Our self  
His self
Her self
It's self
Myself
Self
Yes! That's all I had to do was believe
Now I look at what I have believed
I have to wonder if I have been deceived
Because there was so much that I believed
In
God
Faith
Love
Romance
Fame
Fortune
Normal things that I wanted to believe
That I never could achieve
And I believed
And I believed
And I believed
But just because I did not achieve
Does not mean that I will ever give up on what I

Believe
Apr 2015 · 497
My question to God
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
Did you really send your son to convince us
Your son that turned water into wine for us
The one that walked on water to show us
The one that brought a man back from death to walk among us

Did you really send your son to convince us
The one that wore a crown of thorn's in front of us
Your son that carried his own cross so far for us
The one that was ****** by so many of us

Did you really send your son to convince us
The one that was nailed to the cross by us
Your son that died for us
The one that arose from the dead to prove to us

Did you really send your son to convince us
Your son that shared your word with all of  us
The one you sent to teach us
Your son that was betrayed by some of us

Did you really send your son to convince us
The one that still listens to us
The one that still believes in us
Your son that will still pray with us
The one that will still guide us

Did you really send your son to convince us
That you still love us

Did you really send your son to convince us
That you will send him back to us

His Answer:

YES!!
Apr 2015 · 496
Being Gay
Mark Tilford Apr 2015
Do you think they woke one day
To decide to be that way
To feel the hate that they will feel everyday
To have their families feel betrayed
It's so much more
Then them liking the ballet
And them able to make a great looking bouquet
And them able to set a great buffet
And them having a roll in the hay
It's about two people sharing love
That was sent from above
And being committed
After all that was admitted
It's a shame they cannot feel acquitted
And they have to fight for it to be permitted
Why do they have to feel chastised
Just because there love does not comply
And no one will listen to their cries
And they have to watch their own demise
And they have to feel criminalized
Why do they have to be demoralized
Being gay
They want what everyone craves
They have to be brave
When they show their feelings
That for so long has been enslaved
Why would they not feel betrayed
So let me give you a clue
Being Gay
Is something you do not choose

You are born that way!.......................

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