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May 2022 · 120
Mirror
Tyler May 2022
I see her
I see him
I see them
I see you
I see us!

I see love,
I see grief.
I see God
(if only just a piece!).

I see happiness,
I see sadness,
a war inside
the trials don't replete!

I see loss,
I see gain,
harmonious
within no critique!

I always try to see the best,
to not shy from the worst,
introspection that is
extroverted,
and boy ain't it a relief!?

I see my mom,
I see my dad,
I see my brother,
I see my sister,
aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, son or daughter.
All these people I modeled myself
after to be !

I see Jesus,
I see inventors,
I see artists,
I see writers,
I see a tiger,
I see comic book heroes,
I see friends, and I see foes,
and that is the power
of equality!

Through the glass
reflecting these hearts
of the people and traits that
I wished to be,
but most of all,
and through it all,
I have seen me!

The question now is,
do you like what you see ?
who do you wish to be ?
May 2022 · 209
death
Tyler May 2022
grieving, praying to her.
tuning the ear to every word
she could say no longer.
May 2022 · 217
Calvin
Tyler May 2022
I suppose this warmth coming
out of this wooly tiger
could be nothing but
a warm heart.

He made up the rules
as he went along.
A game that was wild
and so fun,
but needed a good
time. Arguments, with no referee,
it could be no fair
to those that were involved.

Hard times make good games
and better players,
he knew well.
He loved to death the monster;
he slept soundly within its den.
Snoring profusely like he part of its pride.
May 2022 · 145
LIT TUNNEL
Tyler May 2022
YOU CAN SATE THAT
DEATH WISH WITH
LIFE.
May 2022 · 143
sightseers
Tyler May 2022
deeper privacy
is not always meant
for surfaced eyes.

secrets lain bare,
what more could I
stand to lose?

a dive, a plunge.
i take it next to sheer
rock wall.
May 2022 · 100
model
Tyler May 2022
IF IM THE CONSTANT PROBLEM,
WILL IT HELP YOU OVERCOME YOUR PERSONAL ONES?
May 2022 · 127
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
sometimes I feel like a blind wiseman
trapped in a world of my own villaged idiocy.
May 2022 · 89
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
you know through it all,
i really do have you to thank for it.
May 2022 · 107
waves.
Tyler May 2022
the vibrations of nature,
in which all are born and made in conformity with, and to;
it could be
an evanescent spiral of wind,       or
a tornado storm of thunder,         or
a firey warm cage of a campfire, or
a lightning bolt's string being plucked to a percusive slap.

they speak way more true than I.

I seriously can't help but lose this human form
in tune to the wind through my hair.
he, an escapist or a realist?
a good question, I often question,
is there a difference?
surfin in the storm 😎
May 2022 · 72
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
love is not a school of science,
    that is why you fail
       if you test
         for a grade.
what other purpose could there be for trials and tests then?
May 2022 · 243
d
Tyler May 2022
d
on my chest she prayed;
i prayed too.
aloud, sometimes, i needed
the prayer read aloud
to you.
i was so unknowingly
hurt before you came;
the scars that
lie beneath
this skin shirt.
i am lonely
in this old place
that is now not
next to you.
at the least of it,
at the most of life,
i can be alive and free and
unchained in front of a
cloud of misery.
May 2022 · 106
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
i went through the 1000s of men's
sins before me.
only to save the soul
and keep you loved
and keep it safe as forever
more.
May 2022 · 79
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
just like it was me coming after me,
it was you leaving you and
it was you getting mad at you
and piting that you that you
left behind.
ergh.
it is a struggle in my head, a problem i will find to overcome.
but deep down you want to listen to the music,
that i know.
and i love all there is on the way
even up to your surfaces. singing of each layer i can.
May 2022 · 105
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
you wouldn't believe me
that some of those nights
were the worst I ever had.
and it just, kind of, kept happening.
worse when you were gone.
but, were you?
May 2022 · 161
faith
Tyler May 2022
if you see the worst
in someone
and everyone
you meet,
for so long,
it ruins your model
  in which you struct
     your self.
~
   ~
           no wonder,
you are what you read.

pessimistic blood bleeds
purple urch. ylck.

an optimistic heart
leaves blood with
    slivers of silver.
and it, like happiness
that floats of the
River Sanguine.

Hope you get back there.
Something in me
knows you will.

Where everyone's
voices around you
are better than they
are, they say the right
things in between the
blanks where their loving true soul shines through. a heavenly mastery in a godly forgiveness of what
that we are still left, no matter of the matter, somewhat, ignorant.
it's a blessing, as much of a curse.
I couldn't quite put my finger on it,
yet truth and belief are my key to this whole.
May 2022 · 149
soarin high.
Tyler May 2022
the dark thoughts
of a darker time-   the dark paradise, where everything goes wrong.
the greater amalgomation of and
in an ego of its own work
to traverse to a heaven of having in love.
but every feeling passes, adapts,
if you will it to be.
melds, morphs, evolves, like
a butterfly spreading her wings,
let go with the evanescent
breeze,
and find yourself soaring
with its stream,
weightless, powerless-
yet powerful-, cheerful.
as without you,
what is the wind, but nothing
but?
and what is a caterpillar, but born to fly?

the dearest wisdoms, to hold so close to the heart.
May 2022 · 97
in a name.
Tyler May 2022
you fell from grace.
your wisdom only goes so far,
without it.
your elegance, oh,
how i miss the days
ignorance was the meaning.
the heart has opened
and the beast speaks now
and forever more of the soul and
emotion wrought.
May 2022 · 122
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
you probably have
a plethera of reasons
to leave me behind.
i hope to be the one
in why you'd stay.
May 2022 · 87
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
didn't you know baby?
i contend to wrestle with angels.
May 2022 · 265
paid the time.
Tyler May 2022
rightful justice will come
for my heart full of health
and bountiful love.
i will live in the woods, i hope
you would join me;
if not for just a little.
May 2022 · 103
patted plenty back
Tyler May 2022
if you always have someone elses back,
they will pat it themselves for you.
May 2022 · 161
letting go
Tyler May 2022
you are love to me,
and love is every single thing in this existense.
seriously not unlike to God.
letting go of you.
is letting go of love.
letting go of everything.

it is an extremely difficult thing.
it all, not unlike to death.

yet,
the need of, and the life is there after, it.
not unlike to heaven.
the beauty there, it is awe incarnate.
a land where life and love, they
live after death.
every day,
all in the every single right way.
in the grandest possibility imaginable.

aswell,
love is my nothing.
as everything would entail this,
this nothing.
what comes of it?
but, everything?

Love,
it is eternal.
sleep, it is my nothing.
everything, it is my day.

the nightmares,
you must awake.
I pray there is happiness in your hearts
.
idealism
May 2022 · 117
fairness
Tyler May 2022
you retributive beast,
my dignity isn't envy.
May 2022 · 107
ignorance
Tyler May 2022
i can't deal in justice.
  from what the world has told me
since young,
    i deserve to lose everything.
so tell me again, about pride.

judge all you want.
May 2022 · 111
HONESTY
Tyler May 2022
the loquacity
you showcased
of my private
most intimate thoughts
unresolved,
it hurt me and my public
image.

in a relationship, whether it a
past or current one,
regardless of anything else,
you should always
be done right by
your partner.
to be protected from extraneous
forces.
Tyler May 2022
the concepts are like objects,
like mirrors.
whatever you see
is in some part
your ownself.
focusing within,
we are all trapped
within our own mind
treating others outwardly how
we wish to be treated or it
a cry for help.

when i look in the mirror,
i love what i see.
i hope to not let it hurt me as i accept my own image,
only-
but if i see a little truth in
what others do
that i hadn't before.
then, its time to channel it more to good.
May 2022 · 106
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
it's not about stripping your self applied power away,
it's about using your power to try to fight for greater good.
May 2022 · 139
anaconda
Tyler May 2022
the snakes venom
like ink
through my skin
shows temptation
and freedom
can be lead
under false intention.
May 2022 · 299
a price of a soul
Tyler May 2022
in the process of finding myself
it seems i am losing everyone.
looks are decieving.
the pain my loneliness bides
is nothing to the hole left in me
from death.
God gives us all in which we can handle.
redemption is always viable in life.
when you know true loss' mark it is easily seen.
they could seek redeeming, i won't stop them.
May 2022 · 135
Untitled
Tyler May 2022
conditional love
is a contract
made upon
fake roots.
Apr 2022 · 86
pageantry of busy girls
Tyler Apr 2022
i never forget friends
and
what is lost is something
that has yet to be found
again.
Apr 2022 · 145
bravery
Tyler Apr 2022
nothing scares me as much as the inaction or reaction that fear itself gives way to.

beat thine chest with thy closed fist
through any of a hell's trial.
the percussion of persistance to face any problem that faces you.
Apr 2022 · 125
optimistic nihilism
Tyler Apr 2022
what is built
from the nothing
we came from?
Apr 2022 · 218
education
Tyler Apr 2022
he said she said
they and we all say
what we think
we could ever
possibly know.

it's just safety,
marked up as some truth.
too much safety
breeds a whole lot of danger.
too much knowledge,
tends towards a lot of ignorance.
Apr 2022 · 99
behavior
Tyler Apr 2022
i consciously provoke the imaginative,
wonderous worlds of dreams limited
only by the mind's effort and of the mind's taste,
slowly whimsing away complexly
kissing the flowers with my feet.
i am reliable in that accord,
all the energy forfeited in the
acquisition and of the ownership of
what was never mine to begin with.
i no longer seek to take of the land
that gifts me at every turn.

i unconsciously drive into reality,
flooring the gas, radically soaring through
the air, no consequence or regret too large.
knowing fate to take its course, and to kiss a loving
sweetness as much as bite with a harming maw.
i am incredibly error prone-
and that is how i learn so much.
my everyday decisions yanking me along
with the scratches the wolves of life left
that i have grown so used to, to even forgive.
he gives, he takes away.

we are slaves to this existence, that much is true.
i escape as a pro dreamer, in
the land of freedom that i trust
will gift me fruitful relief in the manifestations
and illusions that build with every problem within
that i happen to fail or succeed;
at the end of that, it is no matter, i endure.

if goodness reigns in your heart,
that is the impact it shall leave behind.
so i hope,
so i pray.
Apr 2022 · 172
radio silence
Tyler Apr 2022
turning off the signal
AM or FM?
doesn't matter anymore,
need a break from the frequency.
Apr 2022 · 79
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
while on earth its true we are always somewhere between heaven and hell.
Apr 2022 · 157
hidden in plain sight.
Tyler Apr 2022
when we broke,
when it didn't work
itself out,
i left the definition,
the labels that you
constrained me in,
and you kept to
that i left
even when, i said and knew, i
was still there all along.
when i was still the same man.

dangling in front of your face
hidden in plain sight
the same love i had gave
under new names.
you felt none of my gaze,
the heaven's light never
ceased,
i was just the ghost
trying to gift you a way
to the key
of your own head-maze.
Apr 2022 · 89
friend
Tyler Apr 2022
real friends never step away
but sometimes,
they seperate.
Apr 2022 · 93
golden rang-rule
Tyler Apr 2022
words are like boomerangs,
if you expect, and know,
them to come back full-circle
you won't be hit with the
unexpected reality as they
return in truth to you later.

i love playing Healing Love,
knowing that it'll catch
up one day where i await
it with open arms
and steady stance.
Apr 2022 · 155
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
my morals have been tested
a lot.
for the most part i haven't failed,
unless i was taken advantage of
by extraneous forces.

now, to better armor myself
against circumstances chunked through.
i make excuses, but they still dont matter
Apr 2022 · 118
wild west
Tyler Apr 2022
faith bends bullets
in hailstorms of fury.

unscathed, if you believe all are your ally,
even when on the business end of the barrel,
you will be mattered no harm through
love's armor.

the king of hearts
is a mighty card to hold.
Apr 2022 · 270
SHADOW BOX
Tyler Apr 2022
ADVERSITY

MADE A MAN LIKE ME

GREATER THAN YESTERDAY
Apr 2022 · 92
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
authenticity.
the all-guiding mysterious-
made known-
gravitating force
at the center of stars
and black holes.

the lifeblood and antithesis
of lying,
and the true aspect of appreciation's cry.
Apr 2022 · 78
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
the tears have perforated grooves
inside my face from how long
i have kept them in.

depression is a plague on the mind
demanding everything
while pushing its entire weight
against every action you make or
wish to make.
Apr 2022 · 82
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
the monument i build i built
with the love you two gave me.
visit it.
it shall be the marker of our home.
Apr 2022 · 85
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
YOU WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME.
I AM A FOOL FOR BELIEVING THAT
MIRRORED REFLECTION.

I AM A FOOL FOR BELIEVING SO HEAVILY IN YOU,
A FOOL I WILL BE.
THAT THE POWER I HAVE OVER GOD'S OWN, THAT THEY GIFTED ME IN MY EXISTENCE.

THROUGH YOUR SUNKEN SHIPS
AND YOUR CUT FEET
AND WATER-LOGGED LUNGS
YOU HAVE BECOME AN EXCELLENT SAILOR,
AND I AM A FOOL FOR BEING SO PROUD YOU SAILED IN THAT CHAOS
THAT WAS THE WORLD IN WHICH YOU BELIEVED WAS SOLELY MY DOING.

FOR IN TRUTH, IN YOUR REALITY,
YOU ARE THE SEA.
YOU ARE THE STARS.
AND IN YOUR JOURNEY,
THE ONLY LOVE YOU EVER NEEDED
WAS WITHIN YOU ALL ALONG.

YOU ARE YOU.
SMILE IN THE WATER'S MIRROR I SO WISH
FOR YOU TO SEE HAPPINESS IN.
I LOOK UP TO YOU IN THE OBIQUITY
OF THE BEAUTIFUL VISAGE
YOU BELIEVED TO BE ME.

FOR THOSE SHARDS OF SHIPS
ARE STILL IN YOUR HEART.
I AM NOT A PERFECT SHIP MAKER,
I AM LEARNING ALONGSIDE WITH YOU.
I WAS IGNORANT AND SOMETIMES SELFISH IN THE CULMINATION OF YOUR HIGHER SELF.
YET HOWEVER IT HAPPENED, YOUR POTENTIAL WAS ALL I CARED FOR YOU TO FIND.
RESPONSIBILITY LESS LEARNED TO MYSELF EVEN LESS TO ANOTHER.
BUT ALAS,

OUR DROWNING BODIES,
THEY WASHED UP ON SHORE,
IN WHICH THEY WILL ALWAYS DO
WHEN LOVE AND HOPE IS
BEATING IN YOUR HEART.
after school, take your *** to church
Apr 2022 · 125
big blue
Tyler Apr 2022
the sea called to both of you.
its loving front and wisdom
of that deep.
the storms that came,
might come again.

when it gave you its nature,
it gave you its struggling current.
darkening frequencies
of the lonely whale
chiding the tune
of his fellow
drowning sailors.

yet, there is peace
of the swell at the bottom
of the ocean.

for now and for there,
calming shores
in seashelled ears
tickle teardrops
out of waves
of newly brightened
coralling skin
soothing on ameliorating
anemones.

what we came from,
chills skin,
forces survival minds,
but down here,
there is no where to look
but up.
at the brilliance of
the sunlight shimmering and
dancing through the water.
Apr 2022 · 88
twin flame
Tyler Apr 2022
the lapping of the flames
that kissed away an ember
was seperated, possibly suffocated,
by the bearing winds and the
ever-controlling time
constant of the universe.
i believe that fire to grow
each their own,
until the hearty coal
breathes the same breath
of the same room where
they begin to join again.

the warmth of appreciation
of same burning force
felt ***** and branding
like only one other ever did.
Apr 2022 · 119
Untitled
Tyler Apr 2022
i realized i'm the best friend i've ever had.
then again, i'd say we are the culmination of all those we have loved.
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