tyler knott gregson – satomipoema

I overheard the man whisper

“I am a lover not a fighter,“

and to myself I thought

I, am in fact, both.

For is it love at all

if it’s not worth fighting for?

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Do broken pianos play broken songs?

Do they have busted melodies for busted hearts?

Is there a song living inside it that’s waiting to get out?

Her keys are shattered and her notes long since silent but I can still hear her song.

Just listen, just listen.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

We are the only people I have ever known

that can make love

from across a crowded room.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Painting : Pat Erickson

I would be lying if I said there were not times

that I am an earthquake contained inside this skin

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

What if it’s the there and not the here

that I long for?

The wander and not the wait,

the magic in the lost feet

stumbling down the faraway street

and the way the moon never hangs quite the same.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Be gentle, always delicate

with every soul you meet,

for every single morning you wake up,

there is someone wishing, silently and secretly,

that they had not.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Somewhere

someone shakes

from the ripple

of a thousand butterflies

inside a single stomach.

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Ph : Marta Bevacqua

I promise you

I will try harder

to be better.

I have battled with things

inside me

for longer than you know;

I do not know

what they are

or why they are there …

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Ph : Tetsuro Higashi

Somewhere someone is wondering

if how they feel is how the other

they feels about them

and if both theys

could ever become

a they together …

– Tyler Knott Gregson –

Ph : Tetsuro Higashi