Beautiful Intoxicant

by fabian cortez

Images sway amid

My strewn garb

Covers of night

Amass in a tangled

Knotted collective

To be dismissed

As I fall in neglect

Unconscious of

My surroundings

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"Just a small one",

How recurrent a

Phrase, to know so

Well, as flowing

Euphoria colours

My blackest truth

In recognition of

Our inhumanity

Make beauteous

A bleak existence

To forget

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Confidence invites

Itself upon such

Lenient excess, as

Spirits freedom

Counts such

Need, nectar find

So banish diffidence

Inbred, imbue potency

Yet lacking; collide your

Open enmity, for

None will demolish

Your demand, so

Often given credence

To disregard

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Feminine companion

Sultry n magnificence

Approaches; I smile

But to be thwarted

As bilious exhumation

Spills forth, "O', do

Not leave, not yet",

I cry out at tether's end

Too late hour, lo

Identify my needs

She goes as ever

Nameless, intrinsic

So gone

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You're here, bottle's

Persuasive comfort to my

Loneliness, warming

To my coldest hour

Sunshine to my darkest

Sunlit day, demon to

My avarice, in you

I cannot let go

I'll fight to keep

You, yet break any

Barriers indulging

Your absence

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I need to consume you

To make my world

Beautiful

Again

copyright©2005 fabian cortez