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634 · Feb 2019
My dream
Mark Tilford Feb 2019
Letting go of all my things

Living
In the moment
Seeing what life brings
Living
Where you can actually hear
the birds sing
Walking in my bare feet
Not on concrete
Living
Where there is dirt streets
Where you can see the sky and earth meet
Feeling the suns heat
Living
In my one room suite
Where the animals are the elite
Raising what I eat
Using a log as my seat
Living
Where I do not have to impress
Where everyday is not a repeat
Where I do not have to compete
Evereyday feeling content and complete
Living
Where very few as walked through
Where there is trust in you
Living
Where not many have stood
Miles and miles of woods
Where living is pure and good
Living
Making things from my  hands
Knowing it will stand
Where everyday is not planned
Living
Where you can take a clean breath
Where
You can take a rest
630 · Feb 2016
Live Your Life And Be Happy
Mark Tilford Feb 2016
**** !!
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
!!
620 · Jun 2016
Letting People Live Free
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
Should be the key
It should read on every marque

It does not matter to me
Who you be

In your choices
I do not listen to others voices

Be you and I will be me
Here and across the sea

Free from all the injustice
For the people of substance

Believing in the word trusted
It am afraid it has become rusted

Living Free
Still with so much reluctance

Because of your customs
Living in fear of your destruction

Live free
Without any repercussion


Fighting to stop the injustice
It's time we all live free
For
The blacks, The whites, The poor, The LGBT, The homeless, The people of different faiths, For anyone that dare be different, may you all someday be able to truly live free
617 · Jan 2016
Heartbreak and misery
Mark Tilford Jan 2016
Two things I felt when you left me

Two things that no one needs

Two things that will make your heart bleed

Two things caused by misdeeds
and when you mislead and deceive

Two things that will make you take heed

Two things that will bring you to your knees

Two things that will make you grieve

Two things that will make you, not believe

Two things that will make you leave

Two things that will make you naïve

Two things that will make you step back
and reprieve

Two things that is hard to perceive

Two things caused when there is no longer we

Two things caused when you can no longer agree

Two things you could never foresee
or knew that they would be

Two things that will cause you to be a divorcee

Two things that have
common realities
and that is the actuality  

That I was left with when you left me

!!
612 · Sep 2015
Bother and Sisters
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
These long time friends of mine
Make me shine
God assigned
He did a good job
picking these  three of mine
I am proud and  
would never decline
Sent me three of the most divine
"Bottom Line"
Even still today
Making me always fall into line
Keeping me from the criminal minds
I was no angel  
No doubt there were times they wanted to strangle
If you messed with me the three  would be ready
to tangle  
No problem if you came at  us with no angle
We have all moved away
One a thousand miles
Two just maybe an hour away
Sad we all four could not stay
Even though we have strayed
We would never or could never betray
It's our way
Loyal
Never is it  expected to be repaid
The coed of brotherhood and sisterhood
always obeyed
We will always be at each others aide
These three my mom and dad made
We have now been together for decades
I would never trade
Anyone else would certainly be a downgrade

!!
611 · Mar 2018
A lover or a friend
Mark Tilford Mar 2018
A friend
Will always be there until the end

Lovers
We  could pretend

A friend
Never gives up on you

Lovers
A lot you go through

A friend
Someone to turn to

Lovers
You could undo

A friend
Never would be untrue

Lovers
Getting use to

A friend
You would attend to

Lovers
Something brand-new

A friend
Since we were twenty-two

Lovers
Long over due

A friend
It grew

Lovers
Learning to love

A friend
Always thinking of

My lover my friend
Not sort of
Not kind of
Its
True love
606 · Jun 2016
You told me
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
You warned me
It was close to the end
There is nothing left to mend
No, we will not be friends
Got to let it go
Thought our love was strong
I guess I was wrong
How long
No reason to prolong
Not lasting one more day
No more dues to pay
Going to miss our play
Be on your way
You will never find anyone that
makes love like me
You will see
I am sure you will agree
While your searching for someone like me
I am telling you
After you get through a few
You will want to come back to me
You say please
I will remind you
You told me
Now I am telling you
!!
600 · Mar 2018
i am giving up on you
Mark Tilford Mar 2018
i am sorryt I could not get through
to you
you ignored all the clues
they were in plan view
so many
not just a few
this should not surprise you
i had to
i needed to be true
to me and you
years long overdue
there is so much
we both need to pursue
giving up on you
it's hard not to undo
and i
am feeling blue
do not forget
i really was in love with you
to the end of the earth
i would have followed you
i loved and i lost
this path had to be crossed
we are the cost
595 · Jun 2016
Is it Love
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
When I see you and my heart drops
and it almost stops
Is it Love
When I can not wait to see you
and I do not ask, is this really true
Is it Love
When I have made my mind up
and I do not think it over
Is it Love
When you are enough
And I want to give everyone else up
Is it Love
When it is not just another hookup
and I do not want to ***** it up
Is it Love
When we smile
While looking at each other face to face
Is it Love
When we do not mind sharing the same space
no matter the someplace
Is it Love
When we embrace
and we do not go to first base
Is it Love
When I knew in one moment
and I stop hoping
Is it Love
When I do not ask for more
and it's you I adore

Is it love
When I do not ask anymore
??
588 · Sep 2015
Dear Kim Davis of Kentucky
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
09/11/2015

I write this respectfully,

As I have followed your (story) if you will
I  had to wonder where is the disconnect in
Church separated from State
I must say it was easy to detect
Your reason for refusing
Could it be? For what you think in the future what you
will collect
I have a feeling you knew what you were going to affect
I think you clearly have not read the Constitution because it clearly directs
That is something you may not reject
or disrespect
As I watched you with your so called fan mail, thinking how much could really be hate mail , at your kitchen table
I hope the letters were filled with words that would help you become more stable, not so unstable
Then maybe you can  stop some of the hatred that you have helped to enable
I was set back when I heard you are on your forth remarriage
From a lack of commitment?? Of your vows
They are not like throw away towels
Then when you were released from jail
Honey I think you forgot to wear your veil
Maybe then you would have been more hailed...(your thought)
Then when you and your political FRIENDS? ran upon the stage to eye of the tiger
The song is for a winner of a fight not for someone who caused a fight
out of sure spite
Then to hear you say all this was out of the highest respect to God
Ma'am in church and state there is no connect
Something I think you should have checked
With much respect

Sincerely,
585 · Aug 2018
It's not easy
Mark Tilford Aug 2018
But
I would not have anyone else
I'd  rather be by myself

Again I am headed toward the door
Thinking I cannot take it anymore
But right before
I turn around
She is setting on the floor
Crying
Telling me
There will never be anyone else
I had rather be by myself
It's not easy
We are going to hate each other at times
Baby your mine
Love is hard to define
Don't give up
Don't stop trying
Our love is not dying
Come back now
We will figure out how
Stay
Don't leave
It's not easy
But
In us, I believe
I shut the door
Baby
We have to change what was before
It's not easy
But
I would not have anyone else
I'd rather be by myself
582 · Mar 2016
This dying world
Mark Tilford Mar 2016
We must give more then what we take
Learn to make
Her gift to us is letting us stay
Then we take all of her gifts away
It did not take us long to forget
Now she will collect on that debt
She does not make idle threats
563 · Dec 2016
The First
Mark Tilford Dec 2016
How could you ever forget
When there was no threat
Nothing suppressed
Not yet, any regrets
The First
When it was all about when, where and how
you would connect
Totally obsessed
With very little farewells
Only they, were you aware
Their faults you easily could accept
Harsh words never in eithers alphabet
The First
You just knew it would go on and on
Never giving thought
that it would not last a lifetime
Committing all the love crimes
It was not just from time to time
It was fulltime
The First
You could not accept less
You needed more and more
When you did not have to ask for
There was no walking out the door
You just stayed indoors
To explore
Ending with an encore


The
First
!!
Your
563 · Sep 2015
The Ghost that haunts me
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
This thing I cannot see
That is always staring at me
It moves from room to room with me
Wakes me in the middle of the night
with it's constant bite
Just out of spite
Then it ducks out of site
So foolish of me not feeling any fright
I am sure not being of it's delight
Always turning my head quickly trying  
to catch it in a second of sight  
All I see are small images of electric light
Moving at a low level of flight
Always in the darkest cover of night
When walking through the house it gives me chills
Making me ill
Praying that it will see
the guiding light
It just want leave
Then it dawned on me
It's not a Ghost that is bothering me
What is haunting me
is my inner me
!!
551 · Sep 2015
Going to hell
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
No heaven
When I was just eleven
I signed a contract with the devil
In blood
I would be for him his ****
My grave would be early dug
I could not ask for forgiveness of my sins
There was no meaning to the ends
No making a mends with the big man above
Could he still have some love
Always followed by two black crows never a white dove
The seediest of places I had my den
Living in the city of sin
Stripe clubs was my neighborhood pub
Anything other I would snub
*******
It really did not matter to me where I would dine
on my line
Ironic my favorite liquor was called Heaven Hill
used as a chaser after all the pills
Always in court one appeal after the other appeal
The Devil was always by my side and
would always make some kind of deal
Never going to jail
So never had to come up with bail
I know I ain't going to heaven
I sure will be going to hell
Want matter before I die
If I should  ask for forgiveness for all my sins
He kept me tied to his path
for him I could not fail
So
I will
See you all in
HELL
!!
547 · Dec 2016
I did my best
Mark Tilford Dec 2016
With all my loves
I always tried to put them above
I had been so blessed
But, I failed all of their test
Now looking back
I have become so depressed
Because
I could not pick just one from all the rest
Just one best
Always, I was wanting to see the next beauty
undressed
Looking with these wondering eyes
Never wondering why
or should I say, asking why
The only word I knew was goodbye
Never looking directly into their eyes
I never lied
I sure cannot say it was because of to much pride
I think all I wanted was the moments of what they
could provide
I was never looking for a bride
I was always upfront again I never lied
I question the word I often used
"Tried"
If there was any feelings they were denied
Always needing the next best, something on the side
Never just satisfied
Always feeling dissatisfied
Two words that coincide
I did my best?
Now terrified
Justified
!!
Alone
543 · Sep 2015
Complaining
Mark Tilford Sep 2015
Would really be nice if there was some
Abstaining !
Maybe some
Constraining !
If you only knew how
Draining!
I am really not
Attaining !
"Stop" with the
Explaining!
Sure the hell not
Entertaining!
Tired of it being so
Detaining!
Nothing
Gaining!
Not anything said that is
Containing!
Not worth all the
Campaigning!
So
Disclaiming!
All the
Proclaiming!
It's
Inflaming!
And all the
Blaming!
It continues
So shut the **** up
and stop THE
Complaining
         !!
539 · Aug 2018
the day
Mark Tilford Aug 2018
how much did i loose
i cannot think of an excuse
for times abuse
i could tie my own noose

all chances are gone
where do i belong
i thought i could be strong

no more
is there
someone to care for

death came this way  
all i see is the color gray
i stopped being brave

the demons have raised
my mind is nothing but a maze
days and days

no one has the words
to stop the hurt
i stand at a grave of dirt

ashes to ashes
dust to dust
a must
?

the day
i died
537 · Apr 2016
Ashamed
Mark Tilford Apr 2016
I am
Sometimes just because

With no pause
Sometimes caused by my flaws

From what was
Sometimes from me breaking the human laws

From what I have done
Sometimes  because I had to run

  From what I have caused
Sometimes from what cannot  be undone

Of how I treated someone
Sometimes from how I treated everyone

From how I treated my loved ones
Sometimes from how I let everyone down

From me acting like a clown
Sometimes from me being a letdown

Of  how I just shutdown
Sometimes from not staying around  

Because of the people I have blamed
Sometimes from the people that I have shamed

Ashamed
No more
From what I have  done
Because no more will it be done
536 · Jun 2016
Living Hell
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
It's been such a long time
It seems like, my whole life time
It's been a long time since everything was alright
And the sun shined bright  
Hell !!
No one ringing my bells
Not under anyone's spell

Hotel after hotel
Oh well !!
So many different girls
Fake blonds and died brunettes
Bad girls
You know the kind, that would never ware pearls  
Even some guys along the way
Please do not tell
Now do you understand my hell
Those **** pills
Waking up in landfills

I have changed my ways

Waking up in a ****** hotel
His picture was staring at me
It was meant to be
As I stared back at  him
I ask, where have you been
I have been asking for you, for a long time
I am at my end
I am worn thin

I started looking within
He promised me better days
I promised him I would change my ways
He whispered in my ear, " I am hear to stay"
The very next day
No more ****** hotels
No more pills
No more waking up in landfills
No more bad girls
Only the one's that ware pearls

That picture of our lord
Pulled me out of my

LIVING HELL
There has been so many brighter days
By me changing my bad ways
Thanks to that picture of our Lord
Him staring at me
And me staring back at him
530 · Nov 2015
The USA
Mark Tilford Nov 2015
As Rome, was not built in a day
but day by day
On the backs of immigrants
The USA they made
Hard work they always displayed
in a well mannered way
Often with less pay
(how soon we forget)

The USA
A nation of diversity
It was welcomed and invited
We would all stand united

The USA
Now we are ready to pick who will be slighted
(The Syrian  refugees)
Hatred reignited
So many ready to turn their  backs
and tell them they are not invited

The USA
President Obama I must say
I was proud of him today
(Veto)
Without delay  
He had some ***** today
And could care less what anyone would say
Sent a clear message that the Refugees should not stay away

The USA
The people
I am ashamed
!!
527 · Apr 2015
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!!
522 · May 2015
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
520 · Apr 2015
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!.......................
515 · Jun 2016
GOD
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
GOD
That word
That name
So many definitions it entertains
Purity  
Dignity
Honesty
Modesty
Flawlessly
Prophecy
Prodigy
A representation of man
What he wanted us to be  
I question
What happened to his plan
What happened to man
From now to the start with Adam and Eve
We have lost our faith and what we should believe
I  greave
For man while we are still in this world
Up until the time we have to leave
Man
That word
That name
So many definitions it entertains
Greedy
Needy
Seedy
Cheesy
So easy
******
Restore our faith and start to believe
Before we leave
!!
Don't you agree
??
507 · Mar 2017
No lie
Mark Tilford Mar 2017
None of us
Is here to stay
There are  dues to pay
We are not promised today, nor yesterday
It can be over at a blink of an eye
Bye, bye
That promise is not a lie
Some day, sooner or later
We all die
So why?
The chase for more and more
Such a bore
Making life a chore
So quick to judge
The poor
The *****
Closing the door
To people not like you
Not having a clue
This is what I have got to say
To the who's who
*******!!
You will get what is coming to you
What is due
No lie
We are all pink inside
Bleed red on the outside
We all cry
We all try
We all have pride
This does not need to be clarified
The bible
The guide
Should be applied
When it is not
Good and evil collide
Open your door
Look outside
It cannot be denied
You will see the divide
No one standing side by side
Are you horrified ?
To what is glorified
You should be terrified
I know
Your satisfied
To wear blinders
To cover your eyes
No lie
We all die
In common
We all have forgotten
!!
Mark Tilford Feb 2016
The has been
The begin
The end
Ladies with the name Lynn
Next of kin
Twins
"You have to win"
Gin
So many  men
So many  women
"Going to the loony bin"
Music by a violin
The redskins
"SIN"
Might have been!!
The writing pin
"What's in"
Flynn
People that are to thin
To much "Within"
The inn
Taking a fist to the chin
Perfume
Gloom and doom
Being a groom
To assume
To presume
A classroom

Nothing that really matters
If I had my rather's
501 · Apr 2017
Lovers
Mark Tilford Apr 2017
When does it begin
From the first feelings within
At the touch of skin
When you commit
When you fully submit
When you know you are going to make it
When you both believe
When you cannot leave
When you cannot bare to be alone
You have always known
When you look into their eyes and it shows
It continues to grow
When there are no lies, no dark shadows
When you do not question what love is
He is hers, she is his
When you do not have to think it over
It does not matter how much older
Because it never gets slower
When you have a shoulder
You get closer and closer
There is never a controller
When you know it will never be over
When you need each other desperately
It is indefinitely
!!

It begins

Lovers
493 · Oct 2015
HOLD MY HAND
Mark Tilford Oct 2015
WHEN IT'S TIME TO DIE
by GOD'S DEMAND
AND HE WILL COMMAND
HOLD MY HAND
WE WILL GO TOGETHER
THAT WAY NEITHER OF US WILL HAVE TO FEEL LONELY
MY ONE AND ONLY
HOLD MY HAND
LETS DO THIS TOGETHER
OUR HEARTS WILL NEVER HAVE TO BE APART
WON'T HAVE TO WONDER AIMLESSLY IN THE DARK
WE WON'T HAVE TO SAY OUR GOODBYES
WHEN ONE OR THE OTHER DIES
HOLD MY HAND
WE CAN GO TOGETHER
WANT YOU ALWAYS BY MY SIDE
WE WON'T HAVE TO CRY BY THE OTHERS GRAVESIDE
OR TELL OUR HEART LIES THAT THE OTHER IS JUST OUTSIDE
HOLD MY HAND
TOGETHER
DON'T WANT EITHER OF US TO MORN
IN HEAVENS SIGHT OUR LOVE AND LIFE WILL BE REBORN
NOT WORN AND TORN BY DEATH
WHEN WE BREATHE IN AND TAKE OUR LAST BREATH
HOLD MY HAND
LETS GO TOGETHER
WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO MISS THE OTHER
WE WILL ALWAYS KNOW WHERE TO FIND EACH OTHER
WE WILL ALWAYS BE HAPPY NEVER MISSING THE VOICE OF ONE OR THE OTHER ,THAT LOVED EACH OHTER  
WE WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER BE TOGETHER
HOLD MY HAND
IT'S TIME
WE WILL DO THIS TOGETHER
!!
493 · Oct 2016
Death is a cumin
Mark Tilford Oct 2016
Soon I will be laying in my grave
I am in my last days
Hell no, I am not being brave
I never picked up the bible
To learn how to behave
I have always been the Devils slave
Never corrected my bad ways
I paved
The highway to hell
"Well"
****, those lymph cells
Never heard those Sunday church bells
As I lay here and I dwell
The sight of Heaven long ago faded
My mind jaded
My eyes shaded
Made me easily persuaded
My life I traded
Hell, It's to late, It's over
Thank God, I am a little older
Death is a cumin
Drugs no more
Drinking no more
***** no more
**** no more
No more being a *****

To late to swallow

My pride

I am about to die
Death is a cumin
491 · Jun 2018
Living a lie
Mark Tilford Jun 2018
Only you can deny
WHY

Being different
Why would you disguise
Hide it behind the eyes
Drown it in cries
Suppress it
And let it die
Despise it
Why agonize over it

Living a lie
Being different
Only you can deny
WHY

Rise
Rise
Rise
Being different
What a
Prize

To be
!!
#beproud
489 · Aug 2018
at the brink
Mark Tilford Aug 2018
of death
i do have regrets
(lighting  a cigarette)
now i get

1. not playing in the rain

2. not learning a name

3. causing tears from pain

4. time drained

5. a love not sustained

6. having some substance in my veins

7. not learning there was so much to be gained

8. always starting again

9. thinking all was my domain

10. staying wrapped in chains

etc.
487 · Apr 2016
So many people talking
Mark Tilford Apr 2016
Making so much noise
Not caring who they destroy
"Boy"!!
Apparently they have not heard of the words, "with poise"
Talking about someone, they do enjoy
Why do people have to be so mean
God forbid they could keep it clean
Adults acting like they are still in their teens
I think it is nothing but a smoke screen
To keep their problems unseen
That is why they keep throwing the gasoline
Feeding the fire
Keeping things afire
Most are liars
Their mouths they need to retire
And keep it shut
Stop the loose ****

NO BUTS
!!
471 · May 2016
When does love begin ?
Mark Tilford May 2016
At the first hello
I do not know
Is that when it starts to grow
Or
When you start to feel alone
When there is an empty space
When you cannot see the others face
When you stumble and fall
When you announce it to all
When you are away
When you decide to stay
When you kiss goodbye
When eyes meet eyes
When you know there are no lies
and
No one cries
When you both watch the sunrise
When there are no more goodbyes
Or
When there is no end
When two souls blend
When you do not pretend
Or
When they become your best friend
!!
Love begins
Mark Tilford Apr 2016
Rest in peace my brother
Rest in peace
!!
Please share / repost in his memory ....What a great loss....
464 · Jan 2017
I ask
Mark Tilford Jan 2017
When did humans loose the ability to be human

??
463 · Feb 2017
Untitled
Mark Tilford Feb 2017
There was a knock at the door
The doc. came through
This is what came out of his mouth
There is no more I can do
I am sorry for you

It was all I could do
I tried
Not to cry
I fail to my knees
I cried out
Why me
I am not ready to say goodbye
How long before I die
This has got to be a lie

I pulled myself up
Be strong
He is not wrong
It is not about how long
It is on God's terms
It is what he taught
What I have learned

If you see me
Do not feel for me
Let me know
I was a good man to know

Who knows
How fast or slow
I could go tomorrow
I am not feeling low
I know
I will see the golden road
I will see God face to face
I will finally be able to say
Hello
!!
Hello
461 · May 2018
"Listen"
Mark Tilford May 2018
shhh..
quite

Things were just not right

Last night

In plan sight

The eyes do not lie

How can you act surprised

This we can never survive

Our demise

How many other guys

Our love

Why would you jeopardize

It has been brutalized

How dare you agonize

It's to late too analyze

Do not promise

And

Ask for another try

When you know it's all lies

Last night my love died

I can not try

I will not cry

I thought our love was tight

For it
I can not fight
458 · Jun 2016
Sorry for the pain
Mark Tilford Jun 2016
That I caused
No reason really
Maybe just because
I broke all the love laws
No heart for me from my visit to OZ
Now I have to take pause
To all the pain that I caused
I am sorry for that pain
Looking back, I can see how lame
For all, I was to blame
******* my middle name
Referring to you as nothing more than a dame
Now feeling so much shame
I never treated you as my equal
or the same
My M O and my game
A bad boy was my claim to fame
All that *******, I have overcame
Being a man is to lay claim
"****"
What a foolish man
No wonder her and everyone else has ran
and
Avoided jumping back into the frying pan

Now I have a different plan
!!
456 · Aug 2018
at night
Mark Tilford Aug 2018
when there is no light
and
it is quite
i will be able to dream
silencing my screams
stopping my cries
for you

at night
when there is no light
and
it is quite
in my dreams
i will not be lonely
there you are again
my only

at night
when there is no light
and
it is quite
i will dream
it is so real
your love
again i can feel

at night
when there is no light
and
it is quite
in my dream
you appear
you are so clear

at night
when there is no light
and
it is quite
a breath i will not take
from my dream
i will not
wake
456 · Dec 2016
SEXY
Mark Tilford Dec 2016
Long legs
Smooth back
Nice racks
A ***** that does not slack
Looking good from the back
Where there should be no lack
Always showing a little crack
Easily tracked
That would make me pull it out and jack
That is not a little snack
****
The way they walk and talk
Watching, makes you want to attack
Double back
Down boy, it want bounce back
That big mac
Ridding bare back
A man that does not lack
A big swinging sack
A six pack
White or black

****
Getting it on
With either or
BISEXUALITY
!!
455 · Sep 2015
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"
!!
451 · Mar 2018
I had a dream
Mark Tilford Mar 2018
in a meadow I appear
sad I was and without any cheer
fog filled the atmosphere
gray is the color of the skies veneer
barely making out in the distance a lone white deer
in a instant
I am standing
looking up at a chandelier
from yesteryear
it begins
it starts to spin
my mind fills
with all of my past sins
then
I am standing
at the gates to hell
I wake
I am in jail
449 · Mar 2017
mercy
Mark Tilford Mar 2017
Take hold of me
With all your power
At every hour
This life has gone sour
I have fallen from my ivory tower
Have mercy on me
You the super power
Save me
Please
I know you have not forgot
about me
This is not a plea
Just want you to show
mercy on me
Before the bad really starts
I am falling apart
I cannot feel anything in my heart
Have mercy
The pain keeps me up at night
With it comes so much fright
That my soul will take flight
I am loosing the fight
Despite
!!
448 · Jul 2015
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!
448 · Apr 2016
Friend
Mark Tilford Apr 2016
Hello my friend

So many years without speaking
All we had to do is pick up the phone
(They no longer hang on the wall)
Then we would have known  

So much we have not shared
Why would we dare ?  
I am sure it was not because
we did not care
Somewhat unfair !

Things you did not know

I stood alone in time square
I was alone in all of my despair
There was a time I was on welfare
I am not a billionaire
Most of my life has been a nightmare
I was married and had many affairs
I have been nowhere
but
I always woke somewhere
I have lived most of my life in solitaire
So unaware

I hope your life does not compare
But how would I know
It's been such a long time ago
When we made the promise
That our friendship
we would never outgrow

!!
448 · Mar 2016
Hold Up!!!!!!
Mark Tilford Mar 2016
Sup??
Back up!!
Before I blow up!!
Yup!!
Breakup??
Nah!!
Lets make up !!
As long as you have grown up !!
Hold up!!
You want to start up!!
Lay up??
Give me a close up!!
Where will we wind up??
Let me clean up!!
Before we hook up!!
Once I start I want let up!!
I have been letting it pile up !!
It will be a big blow up!! :)
Let me get it lined up !!
It's tuned up !!
Hold UP!!
****!!
Slow up!!
It's up!!
Let me look up!!
It just blew up !!
Now??
Still want to break up??
After that !!
I figured you would
Hold Up!!
Yup!!
:) :) :) :) !!
Nothing like make up ***...LOL
447 · Oct 2018
my last suicide
Mark Tilford Oct 2018
the weapon lay at my side
the hand written guide
i do not think
to decide
no divide
not mortified
or
horrified
thoughts, justified
the black crow
flies
slowly shutting the eyes
the light subsides
i
die
do not ask why
446 · Jun 2018
Looking for you
Mark Tilford Jun 2018
You're in my mind
A picture of you
So well defined
I am no longer blind
I will find you

I will not stop searching
Winter, Summer or Fall
Many times the sun will rise and fall
In my searching

I will not stop
I cannot stop
I cannot give up
I will not drop

The picture in my mind
By design
You are kind
It gives me peace of mind

I already know you
I feel you
I need you
I  see you
I will find you
By the picture in my mind

I am coming
Knowing you are there
Somewhere

I will not stop
Looking for you
444 · Sep 2018
I pray
Mark Tilford Sep 2018
That we never loose sight

That we always believe
We remember it is not about me
I pray
We never forget what will be, will be
That love is the key
He or she
It's free
I pray
That we do not forget when we were alone
And
We do not forget
the people that have no home
or the people we have known
I pray
We remember we all have the need
And
We do not forget that all
HEARTS BLEED
And it is so easy to mislead
I pray
That we see the face
not the race
And
We never forget all is deserving of a place
in this space
I pray
It is not to late to save this world
from these trying times
And
We stop crossing the line
We open our eyes and stop
being so blind
I pray
We start
with
being kind
!!
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