Typewriter Series #1038 by Tyler Knott Gregson*Chasers of the...

Typewriter Series #1038 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:

For now I will rock him gently back to some form of calm as I raise
my left hand slightly above my face and let it hold my chest higher,
while I drop my right hand where your waist should be and I feel
my feet fumble through the familiar steps of a familiar dance.
I will dance with the ghost of you and swear that when I turn
just in the right direction or close my eyes long enough I can smell
your hair and feel the form you should be filling spill into my empty
fingers. I will hear the fabric rustle and the feet shuffle and
taste your lips on my lips and feel your heartbeat bouncing through
the cavity where I know my heart once lived before it grew tired of
this place and paid it’s last month rent and left nothing but empty
boxes and broken promises and piles of my life like dust on the floor
ready to be swept up and thrown away with all it didn’t see fit to
pack for the trip back to you.  When the music that isn’t playing stops
and the awkward shuffling alone through the room feels sillier than
it should and I am left standing alone and dizzy will the walls whisper
to me, finally, all of the words that were left unsaid between us?
Will they mock me or will they grow soft and cradle me into them
and allow me the spared dignity of muffling my sobs with their
insulation, just for a moment, just for awhile. 

-Part Four-