Nathaniel Graves Poems

You are my growing pain,
My pleasure,
Seeping into my bones,
As if you were an arrogant
...

Refrain from the silence!
You know you can't refuse!
But I, on the other hand...
My words don't portray,
...

I looked up,
In the perfect silence;
At the boundless sky.
The atmosphere around me stabs
...

Love... I cannot say,
Whether it's hurt or disarray,
These lasting moments
Speak of obligatory opponents,
...

Innocence;
The 'pure' essence;
The gift of an ignorant
Self-consciousness...
...

We laid on the
Floor of the
Desert...
...I could barely sleep...
...

For you;
Of you;
You:
...

No time for darkly things;
No mind for insightful hearings.
Just space, and the wide angle of
Indignation
...

But the Manic continued
And he continued well,
As there was no regard;
For the Manic continued.
...

A shadowed defeat
Of the continuous
Stranger.
Portraying a
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