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Nathaniel Aug 2019
I'm on the verge of restlessness-
but I feel so new.

I'm on the end of righteousness-
could I live for a view...

or a moment.

Frozen.

Eating, sleeping, repeating just to hear some moaning-
where does the end feel fine?
When do we know it's calling time?

Do words last longer when you write them in rhyme?

I sure hope so.
I really wish so.
Nathaniel Aug 2019
Queue the laughter.

I'm building a justified war-
Sorry little animals dirtied and poor.
Eat portioned joy you faith-filled fools-
Soured with lemons tasting of ardor.

Perhaps my beast feels shame-
Wither my ego or find he to blame.
Sink the crescent ship below blue-
Fill the sea with smoke and flame.

The dark woods are a bear's back-
Smelling breaths of heady lilac-
Rummaged pines sticky with lines.
Here, there rest no lies or fact.

To let you know of what's today-
We are breaking the yoke in a brand new way.
Sword-toothed sharks battering at our waves-
Keeping the skeptic fish at bay.
Oh in the cave there's comedy is still being written, have a lot to release.
Jul 2019 · 69
A Fellow's Greed
Nathaniel Jul 2019
A fellow's greed inspires response.
Please halt at none's giver.

Abuse, outwit, abstract a renaissance-
Forge thou's own exalt, fill thou's quiver.

O You. .  . the wise and kind-
Hath no courage to claim realms dictated.

Sin! Tis' a sin of your mind!
But forewords have been slated.

May yellow riches fill smooth shells-
And truth belittle lies from false prophets.

Lay on your bounty, chime thou's bells-
See thy's truth shun false promise.
-Lucy
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
Jun 2019 · 321
Unsolved Imagination
Nathaniel Jun 2019
O Sweet almighty my lover lies-
Carried to mountains that silhouette skies.

By a demon mightier than your power-
Scheming to *******, force, and abuse her flower.

Who wolfs such hate, vile and cruel?
Me! For I am the beast that fathers no rule!

Ignorance envenomed my scrupulousness ears-
And gave tribute for lust to find what he hears.

My compass became dwindled but pointed true-
Such guidance, yet pique and repulsion grew.

She watched my footprints with rapt eyes-
And scoffed at my kind-furred disguise.

O why was I a fool to a lover so dapper!
Now the water runs unclean in the cold shower.

Rancid is a man who records his ***** being,
Grim is the one that goes without seeing
Jun 2019 · 217
Who Am I
Nathaniel Jun 2019
Who am I to shape my own perception
A mad man? Or perhaps worst. . .
A man who is self aware of his own sanity
But never has lunacy tasted so balanced

The waves on the shore serenade me
And the palms bow to their new king
But if all is common and all is real
Then I am not worthy of godliness

I ponder of creation above the skies
But unafraid of an invisible creator
Even the poorest man knows my ways
I am not sculpted in perfection

Perhaps my greatness is shown fate
Or crippled in a scene of a shoreline
No
Paradise is untimely for my fault

The lavender is laid in the sand
And there is no text written
I am still a shattered man without a cause
I am unworthy. . .
-Narrator
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
Jun 2019 · 427
Honey Soaked Bricks
Nathaniel Jun 2019
When I was younger love was a guarantee
Written, sang, and born to be free

But as I grew older I learned of chance
For nothing is certain or laid in advance

My life remained bare and hollow for years
Except for loneliness, my greatest of fears

Hope hung itself in my home
Left in a window with mouth full of foam

Then chance bestowed on me its greatest gift
Someone to share my thoughts and love with

On our first night I listened to every breath
And I came to burdened her father's death

The world froze to watch her lips touch mine
This is where I was meant to spend my short time
Jun 2019 · 75
Twinkle
Nathaniel Jun 2019
There is something hiding behind your face.
I can tell because you have a subtle twinkle .
Not just in your eyes, but hidden in your features.

It's like you know something ,
or maybe you're up to something.

I can't find out what it is.
You are the only one that knows.

Does it shine because only you can hold it?
Does it make you happy knowing only you have it?

I see that it makes you happy.
Your lips heel.
Your eyes illuminate.

You have a certain twinkle.
Jun 2019 · 122
In Another Letter
Nathaniel Jun 2019
How can he not charity kindness to she that whimpers
How could he not hold ice to her burns that simmer

For her presence is the most luxurious of antidotes
And elevates the substance of he who stands alone

At the end of it all, if the ****** are called, she will continue to stand her post
Because God gave the man, with a pen in his hand, her worthiness to have wrote
Nathaniel May 2019
The waves invite me to comfort
They can play the cave's harp

And in an unknown instance
My sandy feet turn wet

The water holds my legs
As it travels up my skin

Its sweet warmth drowns sorrow
And lifts expectation

But this is not my being
I am not one to inherent paradise

My toes curl on stone
Not upon an ocean floor

Perhaps my fear conquers humility  
And I should stand in darkness

Perhaps these voices are ungodly
-Narrator
May 2019 · 426
Imagine my Conniption
Nathaniel May 2019
Imagine my conniption and slipping
When I noticed the man in the mirror was missing

I folded into self destruction and binged self hate
Before I was light, till sadness added weight

Then you came through the walls I erected
Inspired by your vivacity and charm I became connected

And under the Christmas tree you laid fair
In my glee, I knew I had never been there
May 2019 · 110
If the world froze like ice
Nathaniel May 2019
If the world froze like ice
clocks would be still

Winds would halt
at mighty Time's will

Horns would be trapped
in Emptiness's satchel

Power for no one
living in the frozen castle
May 2019 · 191
Reality
Nathaniel May 2019
If I stand upon false sand,
I must also feel lies in between my toes.

But the sun brings a warm comfort,
How could its rays be forged by a voice?

Could the breeze be a fan in the distance,
Strong enough to make the palms dance?

Could the fish be colored projections ,
On a clear blue screen that spans an ocean?

Could a cave hold a paradise?

Here reality is a coin,
And perception is truth.
-Narrator
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
May 2019 · 354
Humble
Nathaniel May 2019
Lucy wears many faces
Her most vile is deception

This paradise she's offered is a hoax
An illusion sewed for mankind

His home in the sky is limitless and pure
You may not yet fabricate its likeness

Resist Lucy's temptation and live to see
A heaven that triumphs euphoria

Be humble and blend yourself with reason
Cast away your pride to the ocean

Know your limits and love them
-Selaphiel
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
May 2019 · 216
Fool
Nathaniel May 2019
Am I a waste to a good thing?
Does luck fall upon a fool?
May 2019 · 144
In a Letter
Nathaniel May 2019
Gentle eyes speak in sober fondness
And clutches the key to my affection

The stories those lips could tell
Are poetic without motion or voice

The love you deserve is harbored here
In six weeks, we will be lost in euphoria
May 2019 · 103
Reimagined/Garden
Nathaniel May 2019
If I fall into her allure never pull me away
With her in the garden is where I'm meant to stay

I wish to caress her soul only for forever
And for her I would conquer any endeavor

Love is not enough of an explanation
Rather destiny, fate, and a certain fixation
May 2019 · 162
Pride
Nathaniel May 2019
Breath

Breath in the salt

Let it flow through your lungs

Feel the spirit of the ocean
Feel the water in your veins

Be content
For it all belongs to you

You are the lord of the isles!
The God of the shore

Your vision is your limitation!
Take in your kingdom

This is all you deserve
This is your home
-Lucy
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
Apr 2019 · 365
Refuge
Nathaniel Apr 2019
You creep behind refuge, exemplifying human nature
The dearth of your kindness kindles my feature

Your tongue must flavor of dust or dirt
For your falsehoods lay with incessant inert

When God formed you he fabricated sin
Stitched with worthlessness that festers within

I know your deeds and will sing them atop the trees
And your precious pride will perish with my lip's ease

I would do a charity and release your soul from the earth
And make the pain as profitable as your life was worth

Death will wear you as a cape in the afterlife
He'll carve his name in you everyday with a boning knife

It is a sad dawn in hell when you arrive
But it was your fate son, you mustn't deny
Apr 2019 · 71
Sessis
Nathaniel Apr 2019
Strip back your false innocence
Everyone knows it's a cloudy mist
Show us your yellow teeth and
Show us your rotten fist
I no longer know you
Sessis, upon you I wish death
Nathaniel Apr 2019
There's no more love in America
Fake faces on screens create a hysteria

Unattainable perfection develops a depression
That feast on self hatred and drinks self aggression

Our bodies are not molded of clay created by selection
We are birthed of mistakes that mold our perfections

Our lives are forcibly drenched around image
But *** shouldn't be peddle it should be privilege

Before all of this, love was a time and a place
A moment that was told by heartfelt embrace

That created a lone eternity for a pair of lovers
Where happiness dwelt under and above the covers

Now it is manufactured, sold, and looted
Only we would take something pure and make it polluted
Nathaniel Apr 2019
At the end of the world there forms an array of islands
Each of which bathes in the heat from the sun's shine
while the breeze off the water sways the palms in silence
and the waves on the bleached shore form coastlines

In the distance, the small islands shelter the light blue horizon
And upon a narrow gaze, the water is flooded with dye
Fish and coral erupt with colors that glisten like diamonds
Separating the decorated ocean from the painted sky

I take a step onto the sandy land but before I can take another
I am greeted with a warm breeze that smells of salt
and my eyes stare at the bleach white foam off the water
Leading me to a world of tropical beauty with no halt
-Narrator
In continuation of "Oh! In the Cave There's Comedy!".
Apr 2019 · 79
Pickup
Nathaniel Apr 2019
You laced your trial with hatred, without reflection
Left yourself to ***** on the floor as an animal
But your mind is not a field of complexion
Its stationary, its cruel, its done its own rejection

Why could you not bring yourself to tell her you love her
If the words were empty, thoughts would not congest you
Let your emotions bleed into your mouth so you mustn't defer
Without voice your love will remain a whisper

Confidence is consciousness that stays forever with you
A skill mastered not in meditation, but repetition
The excuse of taboo itself is ironically unnew  
You cried, felt shame, and fell to, but her love never grew

Now you have no right to whine
When you see lover with a man who took his step
He completed his coast, but you're still in mine
Do not wait for love, because star do not align
Mar 2019 · 135
Young
Nathaniel Mar 2019
If I don't die young I'll be a disappointment to myself and others
For if I grow old all I will know is regret
I want them to write about me when I'm dead not sit by my bed
Mar 2019 · 436
The Two Cowards
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Do you hear?

Do you listen?

I felt your breath
But I also felt another
My ears discovered, in this very cave
An eternal body and an eternal coward

Do not share an ear to he that loathes you
Let your mind explore your exceptional thoughts
Thoughts of philosophers, born of gold and wisdom
You stand above man and above he

Ill treatment towards your being is rooted in jealousy
For they hate the perfections that leave them sleepless
Their journey is childlike to what our eyes have seen
So they develop an abhorrence to your presence

Do not let this shake your ground
A man on his silver horse must ignore those who trudge on feet
And the feline must not concern himself with rodents
Their pain is individual, you have met worst

Let me show you you're undying potential
With me you're most natural fantasies face reality
-Lucy

Poetic entry number 4 of my project "Oh! In the Cave there's Comedy"
Mar 2019 · 308
Gold
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Sweet boy

Do not be possessed by sin
Do not feed on false promise
For you know love's extent

The crown on your head is not gold
But after this lifetime it shall be fine
You were born of sin but you may die of virtue
Only if you resist and follow His word

Lucy will freeze your heart
Your blood will turn to ice
And you will only know cold and isolation
The comfort of loneliness is limited

To die alone is heartbreak
And Lucy will let you die alone
in the cave between her frigid claws
If you follow His word
His light will set you free

Heave His warning
Learn His voice
Know His lessons
And He shall forever set you free
-Selaphiel

Poetic entry number 3 of my project "Oh! In the Cave there's Comedy"
Mar 2019 · 905
The Cave Calls
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Eerie psalms ***** a trill down my neck
Words are absent but the definition is lucid  
My body is hypnotized to follow the call
But my mind is a statue to the manipulation

Until I hear the harp of an angel
conjoined with the choir of sirens
The like of which has never touched Earth
blanketing my ear with its ******* song

All that I have lived does not compare
And I would end it all or begin a new
just to hear this harp forever in time
The harp that has given me new life

It speaks to me for I appreciate it's mastery
I do not resist for it only wishes good
And it continues to play with only one request
I must invite myself into the cave
-Narrator

Poetic entry number 1 of my project "Oh! In the Cave there's Comedy"
Mar 2019 · 264
Breath
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Silence.

Breath.

Warm Silence.

Breath out.

Be nervous, but never doubt.
Lucy is in you.
To caress you.
You've always known truth.
I birthed your truth.
Do not abandon me.
Do not run,
For I am your whisper.
I am your love.
I bow to your thoughts,
because I loath you.
But without my tongue you are lost.
Without my lips you are stranded.
My words will complete you,
and raise you to divinity.
Listen to me in the silence.

Breath.
-Lucy

Poetic entry number 2 of my project "Oh! In the Cave there's Comedy"
Mar 2019 · 75
Nowhere in America
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Real knowledge fondles the mind
Real men take to what's kind
But little does he know he's blind
because he's let ******* define

What he perceives as genuine
And now he's forced to take medicine
because he crumbles under adrenaline
from the mixed concepts of feminine

However he stays so addicted
to the industry that restricted
his perspective and made him submissive
He doesn't even know hes a victim

And blames his inability on his head
As his confidence hangs dead
But he will not speak of it for word will start to spread
So every time he finds love he begins to dread

the nighttime, and the blankets
so now he has cuts to remind us
that to his lover he is useless
with his only use to fill a casket

He turns to the bottle and simulation
Because that's the only way he gets stimulation
But for the last hes felt frustration
For he's given in to his own damnation
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Mar 2019 · 231
Laugh on Me
Nathaniel Mar 2019
Heave! Heave! On every breath
Leaving his body in unstaged scenes

Grabbing for air his lungs deflate
And he curls as a new born in a crib

His hands sweat and and his face fades red
toes curl from the tingle

With scrunched face he reveals white teeth
and hides his joy-filled eyes

Laughter unveils his just jubilation
or there is just a happiness in his means
Mar 2019 · 248
Blue Granite
Nathaniel Mar 2019
I can't say that I'm proud
The salty water draped over my face
Nowhere is an escape
But I can't be found

Red stained eyes from the crumble
Listen, through soaked lips I mumble
Away! Away! You evil mist!
I squeal with shaking legs and trembling fist

It does not scatter away
Thought has no master to obey
So I beg I plea and try to reason
For you I will kneel and **** my treason!

Response is still and quite
The silence forces my head to riot
Please! Please! I'll do it all
Remember all my good? Do you recall?

I will pray to God and go to mass
But I can not change my awful past
Nov 2018 · 123
Heaven from Hell(5)
Nathaniel Nov 2018
On the roof of God's temple laid a woman
**** in mind but clothed in linen
Her comfort found eyes hidden
How was he, a man, to ignore her glisten

Her pale face exaggerated her rosy feature
And her green eyes glowed to the seeker
The river of silk black hair could flow in nature
And even her lying brows could caress a believer

She rose from her slumber in choreography
Facing her follower and fulfilling the prophecy
Then turned and rose her arms as if God's own prodigy
And exposed her bare back in homily

God's hands bleed after the creation of this deity
His chisel had left her beauty drowned in divinity
The poet's own mind starved of gaiety
When he saw her bear skin glistened of loyalty
Nov 2018 · 1.2k
Alright
Nathaniel Nov 2018
Oh memory,
Your sweet sweet remedies

Keep me awake at night
Reflecting on all I did right

and all I did wrong
you tell me in song

So the hurt doesn't slay
I can stay alive another day

You see,
I know you like me

Its transparent by the stalking
When the leaves are here I hear you walking

Sneaking around my mind for a ****
dependent on the depression of my will

My mind struggles against your grasping
but you left me in my own tears gasping

Desperate for a whiff of sensation
My back turns to an honorable salvation

And in pity of an infinite night
I awake and lie about the alright
Oct 2018 · 106
Bomboniere
Nathaniel Oct 2018
I dreamt of a white road
Joining family in celebration
commemorating the divine serenity of forever

Collecting moments in photo albums
with the people dancing
and the cardinals singing folk

My eyes meet yours in comfort
and I feel nothing but warmth and assurance
with your curved lip promising sweet pleasure

But before bells ring and angels carol
we fall one last time before forever
and our lips collide to a strong applaud

This is the moment we will remember
the world spins but we are still
in the purest form of togetherness simply for forever
Sep 2018 · 267
Stale
Nathaniel Sep 2018
Eyes close and minds clear
Old time is frozen in new fear
Sweet serenity joins in spree
With lips of honey
and the smell of lime trees

The fog has lifted and faded away
And the mind is awoken by the light of midday
The poet wishes for nothing more
but to sit and enjoy the stone cold floor

No comfort of distraction
to distract his mind from action
Only his pen is rightful upon the bricks
he finds true rest on his frigid fix

Solace surrounds the thinker
who's mind slides free
and rhymes go linger
Sep 2018 · 111
Troubled
Nathaniel Sep 2018
Troubled by the same being over the years, sweet breath chilling my spine. God told me stories of how he has seen me cry and watched me fall and I smiled when he finished but now I am not smiling anymore. Now I am troubled.
Aug 2018 · 307
The writer
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Simple, not sustainable  
The mind of a coward is uncontainable
free to bleed on pages for hours
but his work is not adaptable
call attention for fraud
because he's an alienable
monster of a man  
god bless the bland
and
god bless the stranger
Unaware of the danger
that a free pen cost
A mind and a soul for paper
Not a writer a maker
only less convincing
then the man
assuring everyone of his winnings
and when time slays the man
his writing will be where he stands
on the cold ground
with a warm pen in his hand
Aug 2018 · 852
crying with the lights on
Nathaniel Aug 2018
You never saw the look in her eye
when she said goodbye

Crystal tears and a blooded face
there was never such sadness in one place

Do not wipe your weeping tears
Cry still beyond for many years

For those not missed can not say
I will be remembered another day
Do not worry, you've been loved.
Aug 2018 · 2.4k
Heaven(4)
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Heaven's gates open in beat with my eye lids
As we stumble in sweet confusion
We can taste the air as an ostrich wine
And the only sounds are angelic choirs joined in mirth
The walls are painted scenes blessed in eternal movement
With God himself scribing the tales
Telling stories of triumph merged in harmony
And penmanship worthier than any poet

Men docilely behold grace itself on the walls of heaven
Ever worthy of the eyes of mankind
Of those who stole a glance turn to gold
And immortals join in ritual

The sense of sight, light, is portrayed as holy crystals
Incandescent stalagmites create divine paths for righteous to follow
While those lost in damnation are lead to eternally fall
As the path lingers the walls inspire a revelation in ones heart
Blessing all who listen, with God's word
Aug 2018 · 327
Holes(3)
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Everything stopped
and went dark
there was no suffering
there was no spark

the feeling of confusion
granted me still
the endless fall gifted me
for it did not ****

the pain was unread
as my own rhyme
before there was chaos
now there is time

How relief conquered curiosity?
Its better to not question
when given such a gift
dont give a suggestion
Aug 2018 · 559
Numb(2)
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Simply numb to the fear inside me
No hands to hold beside thee
Desperate for hope
Destined for the rope
that currently hangs reality

I have not felt ground in so long
As the air sings a sad song
That never ends
That ever extends
God make my wings so strong
Aug 2018 · 379
A Poet's Fall(1)
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Descending and pretending
I’m flying
when I’m falling
no memories
no remedies
I’m crying
Fear in it’s greatest hour
I cower
As I fall
As I scrawl
Oh how the poet turned sour
Aug 2018 · 373
King is Dead
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Raise your hands now that the king is dead
Bring the poor out the streets the meek are fed
Bring sugar, milk, wine, and bread
Please lower your hands for the king is dead

May the ****** please come and feast with us
No need to starve like rats on crumbs and crust
We can show you peace, love, and trust
Oh please, the ******, come and feast with us

May the women who roam the night please come forth
We admire you because we all come from your birth
All humans, no lesser, from all east and north
May the dear woman from the night please come forth

Now that we have gathered I want to tell you all
What love and triumph serves to call
How we all rise with sun and sleep at fall
Please love yourself I’ve gathered tell you all
Aug 2018 · 636
Willow
Nathaniel Aug 2018
I remember under the willow tree that one night everything was alright
All stress and emotions was gone from my chest we were lost in the moonlight
That one moment I took to when I looked at you, that’s what inspired me to write
And your deep brown eyes looked whiter than snow and brighter than headlights

Call me hopeless fearing emotion when I was younger but now I’ve found another
Person that understands me, calls me names other than my mother
And when that cold air hit your face I was there to warm it a fire
Not quick to think but when I find someone great I don’t want to push them futher

Now I wonder of someone I don’t know as well as I should
Love sounds great but in this era it burns faster than wood
But the way the light hit your face next to that willow could
Remind me of pure contentment, only know else place in childhood

So in the spur of the moment I placed your lips on mine
I couldn’t see but I imagined everything around clearly and the stars aligned
My mouth felt compassion and my heart dropped to the baseline
I knew under the willow was where I wanted to spend a lifetime
Aug 2018 · 91
White Wings
Nathaniel Aug 2018
Gracious is the girl whose eyes look soulfully into your mind
None of her movements show elements of hurt, her motion so divine
Fluidity upon her sweet careful lips, who sip bottled wine

Her body creates a religion that no God could ever compare
A heavenly choir charms the clouds whenever she is bare
But every man she’s ever met could never take a slight glare

For her beauty was not created for mankind’s unsacred desire
Pleasure was not in her description unless you were to only admire
Heaven for the first man to witness the soul purifier

When she spoke, a certain note, came out like an angelic song
Her voice had a certain charm that switched every brain on
And upon a listen the girl’s noise could be heard from long

Her face was fabricated by the greatest artist of time
Chiseled in hedonism, during his limited prime
Every feature independent but beautiful in his mind

He worked on the slight curve of her hips for years
And molded her to perfection, stained with blood and tears
If Eve was flawless she was sheer
Aug 2018 · 347
Thoughts on a Riptide
Nathaniel Aug 2018
The persistent air pushes upon the pebbled shore while the sun warms every breath
How manly of me to ponder of every man’s proper dream even when there is no man left
He silently thinks to himself as the tiny stones stick to his feet upon every stealthy step
I will travel to bear witness to this mistress from the bare islet.

Lady luck will guide me to the lovely lady if love is luckily true
If the spirit of the island is in the land she will lead me to something new
An experience so inexperienced even the experienced never knew
What terrible terror for the townsmen who never truly took to

A relationship

Yes, that’s what he forever never-forgetting wished for
A beautiful girl in her beautiful world to walk with him on the shore
A soul to simply grow old with and solemnly swear to love to the single core
A hope filled heart hopefully was all he needed for the other half to adore

The man curiously gazed up and saw he had completed the end of the coast
He had been walking all day wondering about a woman that he barely knows
To him she seems like she is standing in his way but to her he seems a ghost
He looked out at the riptide, smiled, for he maintains the memories he had engrossed

— The End —