Nathaniel Colbert Poems

In the dim pools of light i saw your eyes floating with disembodied thoughts and shadows.
Gods prayed to know, and i would die to see now what i knew then.
Could have flipped the veil, and gazed on a thousand stitches and angel corpses embedded in her porcelain flesh.
But ignorance is bliss, and bliss is beauty, and beauty is enthralling.
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Hurt and Taken by your beauty.
You entice me further into insanity
I want to go
Please take me with you
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Painted flesh.
Would you fake this ecstacy?
Sex-coated mesh?
Handprints in blood, pasted on walls?
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Left helpless like a contorted corpse, it's grave tilled by falling leaves
Never meant to be alone with a contrivance with lost capacity to grieve
A painful portait i must conceive:
Brush stokes in flesh, pink, black and pain; obscene...
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Sometimes i wonder why we feel anything at all...
Candle light flickers and dies, blood-red wax on ivory bones. But all this is
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something like a star you sparkle,
so far away
buried in the blackness of my dreams
broken hands reach through the emptiness,
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She lay carelessly strewn about the hillside,
clothed and vapor and a gown of dreams.
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