7 years

Written By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton

It's been 7 years since my eyes have been sober,
no pain nor heartache to make them drown
I have become numb to every poisonous drop of the pain
along with the accompanying sounds.

It's been 7 years since my heart has been alone,
ripped apart from the comfort of yours
ever since then a river of guilt has flowed from it
and I was thrown completely off course

The stitches I used to hold it all together,
are bursting at their frayed seams
and blood is drowning my aching chest
the pain of losing you
is killing me slowly as it seems.

I can barely breathe but somehow I find a way
because to my lungs you are like carbon dioxide
I have gone on a quest in search of better days
but sometimes I feel like I've died and been revived.

My heart beats gotten weaker and weaker
although my spirit to recover will never die
for every heart break can only make me stronger
and when I'm stronger i can only survive.

Because in this world survival is must
but yet again so is loyalty and trust
yet sometimes trust can make us all into slaves
that's why most secrets are better to take the grave.

So in my hand I'll carry my heart
And where my heart goes I'll treasure our promises
And I'll run till I'm hidden and alone in safety
and I'll live happily when I'm away from vicious predators.

By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton





© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton (All rights reserved)

Bleeding Angel

Written By Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay

As I lie in my bed, I think of nothing but feeling happy. When I got my morning coffee, smelling the delicious aroma, I remember the one thing that I tried to forget. The one thing that hit my heart, hit my heart as if a brick had been dropped on it.
Crushing it causing my heart to bleed to levels of the extreme
I felt like I had lost everything that I had ever wanted
The spell that had been cast upon me was now starting to fade away.

I wanted to scream, scream till my heart had nothing to scream about. I tried so hard not to cry, even though I had no more tears to shed. They would just become empty tears of something that would slip away from me.
Slipping so fast as if my tears were sand grains in an hour glass dissolving over time.
Oh I wish I could rewind back to a happier time when our romance was just starting to blossom like roses.
How I would give anything just to go back to that moment
Those were the happiest moments of my life and now you’ve left me behind in this harsh, cold world without saying goodbye. I wish you could just come hold me and kiss me one last time, to reassure me that everything will be alright, but I know it won't, no matter how many sweet lies you tell me. It won't be alright. Cause I won't be with you. You are the key to my happiness only you can unlock the treasures of my heart.
Without it I'm just another hopeless romantic, just waiting for the right one to come along.

By Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay




© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay (All rights reserved)

Press Play To The Music Of My Heart

Written by Riyah Walton & Glenn McCrary

Exploring the depths of my heart

Revealing inner thoughts that have been left unsaid

Pressing play on all of my different emotions

Seeing which one reacts best when I put them to the test.



Searching in the crevices of my soul

Trying to find and create my inner self

Dancing through the turbulence of the process

Because I can't fall further down than I've already been.



I've been restricted for so long

By an invisible wall guarding my happiness

But I've finally broken through it

And now my victory is bliss.



This day would come eventually

I was unsure of what time frame

Though all that really matters now

Is that I'm basking in it's flames



I'm running towards my new found heart

instead of running away like before

I'm cradling and fixing my negatives now

And still aiming to be pure.



I'm standing strong on solid ground

The negatives are crumbling at my feet

I'm stronger now I've found my inner self

And now I'm stronger and more wise to defeat.



My heart used to ache from the darkened days

The book of success was one I'd struggle to read

But my smile will now shine and guide the way

To a life I've now realised I was born to lead


By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton




© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton (All rights reserved)

My One True Love

Written By Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay

Your smile was a symbol of Heaven
Whenever it was revealed
You were my lucky number seven
All of my wounds you healed

Images of you
put a smile on my face,
And warms my tender heart.
An image I can’t erase.

Words can't even describe
The way that you make me feel
With you I felt so alive
I'd never felt something so real

You’re always on my mind,
Every day and every night.
How I wish I could rewind,
To when everything was right

Someone like you
I could never ever replace
Even if I tried to
It’d all be just a waste

Because you’re one of a kind,
You bring out the light in my eyes.
Girls like you, are hard to find,
Finding you was my ultimate prize.

I wish you could feel my heart beating
Full of undeniable love and truth
I wish you could feel me breathing
Every breath your memory soothes

Oh how I wish that your beautiful
brown eyes could see
That our hearts were made for each other
Maybe it was meant to be

But still I will always love you
No matter where my heart will lead
In my world no one's above you
You are all that I need

By Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay




© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Tyler Nytchay (All rights reserved)

Heart Break Heart Rape

Written by Riyah Walton & Glenn McCrary

My heart has been raped by mendacious happiness

Purity has evaporated into blank nothingness

Surrounding myself in false reality

Has played games with and beaten my mentality

And now even the best plastic smile

Could not mask my pain.



Because honestly the pain never ends

Over me it constantly showers

But other times it's only brief

Sometime it lasts for hours

All I know is that I want it all to fade

Far into the distant shadows

Casted off into the shade.



But this pain wont fade effortlessly

I need to show strength use some brutality

Because mellowing in the shallows

Only works for a little while

As It wont be long till the flashbacks of rape reappear.



So I will work hard to meet my demands

And I will do the best that I can

To make my life less of a living hell

'Cause I've been cast up under a spell

That has been manipulating my soul

And the things I've said and done

Have made my blood start to run cold.



So now I'll retreat into the judgmental world

Tell my story freely without masking it with lies

And the truth will sting,

Because heart rape is an awful thing

But soon I'll be free

From these teary eyes.


By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton




© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton (All rights reserved)

Depleted

Inspiration has faded
Imagination’s become jaded
Fallen short from what I’ve created
Battery life is depleted

Walls are blocking my passion
Deriving anger as a reaction
Pen and paper have lost attraction
Battery life is depleted

My ink has gone silent
Emotions are getting violent
Robbed of power that I lent
Battery life is depleted

I shall return soon
Never gone don’t assume
Need to recharge to resume
For now I am depleted

By Glenn McCrary



© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Recharged

Inspiration has returned to power
My pen and paper no longer cower
Magic is blossoming like flowers
Battery life is recharged

Words strike fierce like lightning
Poetic horizons are brightening
Burning passions are heightening
Battery life is recharged

Rhymes are resurfacing upon new pages
Verses are breaking free from their cages
Imagery's painting its way through stages
Battery life is recharged

My poetry has been revived
And now I feel more alive
For rhythmic creation I thrive
Battery life is recharged

By Glenn McCrary



© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

The Smoke Will Clear

A rumor is a nasty thing
trouble's what they bring
sometimes they may sting
but the smoke will clear soon

Rumors create many problems
faster than you can solve them
and It's not easy to resolve them
but the smoke will clear soon

Rumors can make or break you
They can even invade and take you
Destroy your pride and rape you
but the smoke will clear soon

Ignore those rumors they're not true
Don't let them get the best of you
These people are just testing you
but the smoke will clear soon

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Lips Of Fire

The moment our lips first met
Is a moment I'll never forget
The heat of the mood was set
Just by the taste of you

In your eyes I saw art
In your lips I felt sparks
Sensed love in your heart
Just by the taste of you

Upon my soul you casted a spell
And deeper in love with you I fell
A romance as hot as flames of hell
Just by the taste of you

Your love is what I require
Your fire is what I desire
By your beauty I'm inspired
Oh how I crave the taste of you

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Life Of A Poet

Lately I’ve been going ‘round in circles with my words
Complications arise as I dress my subjects with verbs
Inspiration has escaped me to create magic it won’t let me
It continues to hold me back and it’s beginning to upset me
I breathe, bleed and sweat ink love it with all my heart
But now my pen and paper are starting to grow apart
Within my art is where I find my strength and sanity
To steal it from me would be a crime to humanity
Sometimes it drives me to the point of using profanity
And I would use every word in a manner so candidly
Though profanity never equals resolutions
All profanity does is create endless confusion
Yet some poets seem to be under the idiotic illusion
That it makes them look cool what a dim witted delusion
All I want is to breathe the gift of life back into my words
For they are out of oxygen this curse must be reversed
I am in desperate need to rebirth
More strength and power into my words
Transform back into the poet that I am
Display the true talent in my work
My pen and paper have stuck by me
Through all that’s thick and thin
I guard them with my life
So much passion I hold within
Paradise and excitement
Is what my words bring me
It’s a feeling like no other
And it’s wonderful believe me
Lord I hope all these circles
Soon form into straight lines
So that I can enter back
Into my world of rhymes


By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Scares Me

My mind has gone blank creativity has been drained
These days it’s becoming even harder to maintain
Yet still I wear every single little scar and stain
But they serve no purpose and nothing has changed
My passion has been tossed out into the waves of the blistering cold
Turning my emotions into icicles freezing the corners of my soul
It scares me to know that I am nothing without my rhymes
My poetry is my life and my life my poetry defines
Poetry is my oxygen and I can’t live without it
Chances of me without it yeah I highly doubt it
Because it has healed my heart and has helped me through hard times
That’s why you can feel so much passion dripping from every line
I don’t want this gift to ever fade away
I will try my best to convince it to stay
Just the thought of it escaping
Scares the hell out of me
Kind of makes me feel like
My confidence has fell out of me
Though undoubtedly I’ll bounce back
My time is now you’ll see

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Planet Hate

Prisoners always escape
To a fate worse than death
Growing weak along the way
And running out of breath
Innocent kids being raped
Crimes rates are rising
In each and every state
Young women being kidnapped
Young men getting killed
Young people being stabbed
Tell me what’s the deal?
Teen girls getting pregnant
Fathers abandoning their children
Planes crashing into towers
And knocking over buildings
Gangs banging ‘round every corner
Kids selling dope for illegal foreigners
Criminals robbing highly secured banks
Collapsing the economy Bush thanks
The innocent sit behind bars
While the guilty run free
We live in a hateful world
It’s very clear to see

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Let It Be

Tell me what’s the point of lying
When what I feel is real
Tell me what’s the use in hiding
What can not be concealed?
They say that time is your best friend
And that it soothes and heals everything
When all that time really does
Is crush and kill everything
Yet here I am still hanging on by a thread
Seconds from falling yet inside I’m already dead
Just hoping that you’ll catch me
Save me from the dangers below
Console my soul, making me happy
Allowing your breath of love to blow
But now the message is clear and very easy to see
So I will no longer continue fighting I will just let it be

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Fear

Are you afraid to take a chance?
Afraid to pass a second glance
Allow your mind to enhance
Darling have no fear

Are you afraid to feel?
To let your heart take the wheel
For your emotions to be revealed
Darling have no fear

Are you afraid to care?
Unsure of what’s really there
Ridden with skepticism and despair
Darling have no fear

Are you afraid to fly?
Are you afraid to cry?
Afraid of what may lie inside?
Darling there’s nothing to fear

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Extraordinary

I can not pretend
that I am uninspired
By the power of your words
rich with passion and desire
To continue holding on
the strength of your words I require
‘cause like the flame upon a torch
They set the edges of my soul on fire
The meaning behind each verse
Casts a spell deep into my mind
As if I’m searching for hidden treasure
Never know what I might find
I can see your work for what it truly is
My dear for I am far from blind
The talent that you display
Certifies you a poetic mastermind
You have been given a gift
A gift that’s unique, one of a kind
From your eyes tears have shed
From your heart sorrow has bled
The truth of your words ring in my head
I understood the complexity of what they said
Every verse that you craft is special so keep fighting
Forget what the critics say and just keep on writing
By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Recognition of Distortion

Written By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton

Magazines are screaming distorted perfection

as we begin to kill ourselves slowly

dying just to be who we're not



Masking all of our fragile insecurities

just to look like the celebrities

killing our bodies to try and look hot.



Not realizing that really we're allowing our brains to rot

by destroying all that is left of us

rather than focusing on what we've got



The images we chase are not what beauty's about

Who we truly are is what matters

Forcing ourselves to be anyone other than ourselves

leaves our true images shattered.



It's time to leave the shattering to the mirrors

and leave the waterworks to the taps

Wipe away the falseness and brighten it with happiness

Until eventually we are back on track.



The distortion will eventually be forgotten

beauty will soon be portrayed as to what lays in the heart

And when the chain is broken, and our voices are spoken

Beauty can be recognized without burying us alive.



By Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton



© 2010 Glenn McCrary & Riyah Walton (All rights reserved)

Makita

My eyes swell up with tears every time I think of you
Because I’ve never had a love so powerful and true
My lips tremble with tenderness as I slowly reminisce
On all the sweet and special memories of which I really miss
My mind is always flooded with the beautiful words you said
They are the clouds of Heaven where I lay to rest my head
My heart beats for you with pure love and desire
Burning through my veins like an everlasting fire
My nights are sleepless and I can’t seem to rest
‘Cause I have this empty feeling within my chest
As time went by the more in love with you I fell
It was just like magic and I was under a spell
But what you didn’t know is that you changed my life
You’ve helped me to see things in a brand new light
Changed the way I thought and felt about the power of love
And lately you are the only one I have been thinking of
You are the melody to my favorite song
Your precious lyrics make me want to sing along
You are still the shooting star that I wish upon every single night
When you said I was your wish it made everything shine bright
Of losing you believe me I’m so terrified
A love this true is impossible to deny
So I’m gonna say this now
If it’s the last thing I do
You mean everything to me
Makita I love you

Dedicated To Makita McLennan

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Powerful

My heart is still suffering with pain
Far too great for me to explain
Invading the corners of my brain
And honestly it’s driving me insane
I can’t sleep at night because
Your voice is all I hear
Always drowning me
In a sea of salty tears
‘Cause losing you was
The only thing I feared
It tore right through me
Like the blade of a spear
My thoughts are flooded
With memories of you
Upon my soul your love’s engraved
And I don’t know what to do
Deep within my mind
One day I knew
That you would change my life
Forever this I say is true
Every time I close my eyes
Your face is all I see
Your beautiful smile encourages me
To be all that I can be
‘Cause you are a part of me and
Without you I’m incomplete
Every second of every minute of every single day
From my heart I promise that you’ll never fade away
Never for a second could I forget
Those magical moments we shared
To erase them from my memory
Trust me I wouldn’t even dare
You see I love you more than
Words could ever describe
Your love is stronger than any
Drug that’s ever been prescribed
I think it’s amazing
Just how powerful our love is
It has wounded me so deeply
Maybe that’s why I feel like this
The bond that we have
Shines brighter than the stars
The brightest flames always
Leave the deepest scars
But you’ll always be my shooting star
From a million miles afar
And no matter where you are
I’ll always find you with my heart
When the road gets rough my darling
Just raise your head and look up at the sky
Close your eyes and make a wish
And trust that I will be your guide

Dedicated To Makita McLennan

By Glenn McCrary




© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)

Fire & Water

Fire and water like you and I
were never meant to co-exist
but we found ways to compromise
surviving the chaos that it came with
it was not an easy feat and often
it felt like we were at war
fighting a dangerous battle
yet not knowing what for
the moment our romance began to burn
the flames were instantly extinguished
It has taken everything within our hearts
Not to let this strong desire relinquish
all we can do is hope and pray
that all the pieces fall back into place
and with the right amount of time
it would all be worth the chase
like fire and water you and I
realized it was impossible for
two different worlds to collide

By Glenn McCrary



© 2010 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)