Typewriter Series #1036 by Tyler Knott Gregson*Chasers of...

Typewriter Series #1036 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:

Every minute I am not with you I can feel a piece of hope
evaporating into the ether and I have run out of strength
to reach up through the sky to try to catch it’s moisture,
to feel it land on my hands and absorb itself into my skin
and carry itself through the miles of veins that have lost
their purpose when your hands are too far from my hands and
there is no need to rush blood to the corners of these lips,
no need to curl them into a smile for eyes that won’t see it. 
How do we stop counting the days, when it’s the hours that
taunt us and the fact will always remain that it’s every single
minute that you are not near me that attach to me like thousands
of anchors and pull me deeper beneath the surface.  I am drowning
and choking and gasping for breath but it is not the water that
I am drowning in, there are no swallowed fish in these lungs and I cannot
taste the sea.  Drowning not in water but in the sheer volume
of tears that have gone unwiped by fingers taking leave of my
hand they were holding.  Choking not on a lack of air and not
on the flavor of breath that I have forgotten but on the lack
of you and the number of moments left unshared between us.  On the
life that flows beyond us endlessly while we sit on the shore
and wait to be ready to dip our toes in, ready to jump with
our clothes on. 

-Part Two-