Dark and symbolic, the works of Tyler Clay are filled with the cynicism that follows moralists wherever they go. These haunting pieces will remind you how painful it is to try to walk an ethical path in a world that was never built for ethics.
Tyler says: "I'm a 17 year old from the beautiful state of West Virginia, whose rolling, mist shrouded hills become remarkable fodder for poetry at times. Most of my work consists of either raw emotion manifesting itself into 2nd person form, or just my own personal musings. I used to write to change point of view - a ceaseless pursuit of that altered perspective that makes people gasp... Now, I believe, I write more to hide from my own sight - to escape from that vantage and hovel on the ground, which is why some of my latest poetry seems to be more compelling. I heard once that you should only write about things you've experienced, and I've abided by that more or less, aside from the more situational poetry, for which you have to search for a much deeper meaning in order to grasp the experience I had to evoke it."
Tyler's works here at Unlikely Stories are: