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Nathaniel Sep 2010
Believe in tomorrow, know that the Sun will rise to warm your face and feed your soul. Pray to the heavens because something divine guides the stars. Know that life is rare and special. Feel blessed that your soul was trapped even briefly in this earthly body. You've been given a gift be thankful and rejoice everyday you have. Know that others have come before and others will come after but you are here now to enact change and witness the beautiful unfold. The sunset bears witness that the world turns and is mother to all life. The father, Sun, comes and leaves daily to remind us all we have come and will someday leave but do not worry, it is all part of a divine plan. You are eternal and are here to write the history of the stars, living, breathing, and dying.
I wrote this for my niece and nephew after their father passed.
Nathaniel Sep 2010
At times in our lives we are despondent or on fire. Bless that fire, our rebellion, but the guerrillas have gone, moved on. The Warriors of our rebellion became fathers and remembered they were sons. The creed we held, hate, and that, that fueled it, pain, are nothing but nostalgia. We wade naked in our lake of melancholy. The Fire we danced around jaded and twisted to light the flame of another power hungry movement. And as history goes tribes turn to states, states to countries, until all is conquered in a mass of a cityless empire. And the guerrillas became an army serving the vision of a few good *******. Somewhere along the way what we fought for, why we destroyed ourselves gets **** on and covered up as another foolish idealistic blunder.
Nathaniel Sep 2010
******* screaming at sleeping babies
its the second floor of the maternity ward
and we all know it cause we've been there
It was just our own haptophobia
the place was bad like broken glass
cold and shaded in the winter embrace
we told ourselves we couldn't face
what was within those doors
so we let them scream and magnify
till it had stopped and life had died
Nathaniel Sep 2010
Eat the button on my Shirt
*******
Forget the demons in polyester suits
The ones with liquid paper
spiraling down the empty well
take a moment
just a moment
and never drink and tell
eat cheese and crackers
and talk about caviar
sail on a row boat
and try to hold your breath
as the water spills over the tub
but never ever
drink and tell
a razor is just a razor
till someone has a bad day
a camel is just a camel
till the desert is starved of rain
I never thought about him
till the bottom of a bottle
i'll never whisper with a drink
and i'll never drink and tell
bottle caps and plastic wrap
little legos across the floor
pillows that aren't just pillows
but clouds in the misty air
a glass of water a bottle of *****
and a strange pickle smell
i swear to god
That i'll never drink and tell
a question is a question
a tear is not a free pass
and i just can't choke them down
these buttons beneath my chest hair
I promise i swear
that i'll never ever again
drink and tell...
Verbal *****

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