Typewriter Series #1023 by Tyler Knott Gregson*Chasers of the...

Typewriter Series #1023 by Tyler Knott Gregson

*Chasers of the Light, is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound , Books-A-Million , Paper Source or Anthropologie *

Text For Tired Eyes:

These are the days of dirt under the nails,
the hands in the earth and the smell of soil
that lingers in the air when dirty hands
feed tired mouths.
I have waited for this rain, the green
and the white billowing above it all,
the sound of my own footsteps
crunching foreign dirt on far away roads.
What have we found here, what will
fall into the lap of this day,
where will this head and the body beneath it
find a place to lay?
I will make things rise and feel them grow
and put my own blood into their green veins
if it’s my warmth they need to sprout.
I will hold you with mud stained hands
and cover the blush of you
with the slow dragged smears
from my tired fingertips. 
You can have all I am,
take the decorated back I am going to give you,
the lazy swirls that came from a passion
that wasn’t lazy at all;
you can have all I am,
take the last drops of rain water
sliding down the sides of my face
and wash us clean.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-