A Waltz for Apophenia

Praise the silence And become... Pray for our Eden, The womb of resurrection Pray in silence To become... Let the fallen be forgiven And guide them to oblivion Strength is my star Silence my weapon For our own final war Raise the glasses Hold them high Mother Death Is almost nigh You're alone, just lost and cold A dirty secret to hold. You're alive when you look Into the light One sip and It's done Our eyes will meet them To take you to the Father Sun Pray in fear Men's madness is clear All its demons so dear Are for smaller souls to adhere Strength is my star Silence my weapon For our own final war. Will you tell me you're alive? When there's nothing to hold?

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

No poetry this time No tender crows feasting Over synchronicities No cradles of water, I'll be crowned No crying over war's casualties. Surrender one more time Gently take your idle clothes to me No shame in the shadows To corrupt our dignity I'm delighted you came Welcome to the Abyss Where Mother Death's bosom Is our only warmth. Apophenia, my surrender Weary of the world my servitor Searching for absolution, my lover. Apophenia, the destroyer What have you done While I feverishly slept? What have you begun While I made the journey of the Adept? No you won't take me back Into the fire of vulgarity I won't drift away For your dismay No you won't set me back On my track into far away I won't drift away For your dismay Yes, you may come down now And take a vow to fade away. I won't drift away Melancholia my lover Scream in fire Your heart's desire A funeral pyre To lead the way For all of those Who live in dismay For all of those Who still believe in dismay So glad you came Welcome to my abyss Where you will sleep, Moan and weep in Devil's Keep I can see it all. The interwoven movement of reality Surrender, I arrived whole To devour duality No, you won't ever come back Light turns to black as you fade away On Ascension Day. Melancholia, the destroyer.

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Back from the deep end. I present myself to you Time will destroy All the weak and doubters. You see me now again, Perfect and complete. Built on a new light. A revenant for you to fear. "I reckon I see an old face, A pattern I once new My memory was ablaze For the feelings I had to subdue." Now that I am light That I can save you from this world Now that I have everything You come with open hands To seek refuge and absolution While I wasn't whole. In the maze of existence, You just wanted distance "I seem to see a face A pattern of reminiscence It's all starting over The crack is opening in me" You ask for what you cannot have. Jealousy disguised cleverly As repentance and fear For the future, unclear. I'm what you wish to see A king of nothingness. A commandant of souls With a secret to profess All of you shall fall with no mercy, Deaf, blind and unworthy I have come to this world not to heal, But to show you an ideal That you'll no longer attain Nothing shall stand, none will remain. I had to make my peace of mind I forgot all that was rotten inside To make me whole I had visions that faded away Losses that left me blind So I could be whole. I battled an army of doubt I was stabbed by Truth And it swallowed me whole "I crave for something That I can never have And I didn't take a chance For reverence and a lofty stance"

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

I was carrying a lady in our boat. I could not keep her afloat When a storm took ship and crew. We fell by the morning dew Then a light shone so bright A lighthouse for us ghosts. He stood above an island of cinder, A tower crumbling down on itself Merging with the sea Turning to gold what pitiful used to be We sail forward through the ghoulish fog. Final entry of the Captain's log. Follow the sunshine Breaking through the clouds. A season for reaping The ones who're sleeping Lead the way in. Breathin' heavily There's solace under This new sky of rage and wonder. Atravessei um oceano de letargia Um lamaçal indistinto em tal vastidão Uma pecaminosa e demorada liturgia Que me libertou de uma cavernosa servidão. Que vultos são estes que me perseguem, Como que a um farol para fantasmas desencantados? Recobrem-me com cinzas que me enterram; Uma procissão de milhares de olhos inanimados Use the voice, use your choice. Nothing less than sublime Lift your hand from the dead. Greet the living and hold the sad Here, I give back your fallen daughter With a warning to you. We sail forward lend me your ear For a waking hour of suffering.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Hunger drives the beast. (The world aches with indifference.) The wolf and the chariot in the sky (A world of envy and decadence.) Blood on the hands of the high priest. (On its oblivious final days.) Let it rain, let it fall (Let the demons screech and crawl.) Sköll unleashed awaits. Mistress of the deep Drag the carcass. Lay the horses to sleep. May your feet go faster And your body be filled with strength. My you feast on the flesh Of your eternal prey Sköll, unleash Thy rage complete. Ragnarök is upon us Not by water but fire. Treachery to spread mercy. (Set your eyes on the sky.) A fiery arrow from the abyss. (A condemnation to unify.) A burning planet, so otherworldly. (A scorched land to glorify.) Let it pour, let it fall. (Let the weak screech and crawl.) Sköll, unleash Thy rage complete. Set the Sun toward us To cleanse us by fire. Our end awaits. We understand our fortune Maybe liars, thieves and beggars Rowing in shame Maybe saviours, heaters and leaders But all incomplete. The course is set to free all our suffering

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Someone knocks on the door. Takes me out of the lore. Too broken on the floor To answer to anyone anymore. I can see you Methe. Your drunken spirit takes over Wanting me ever closer To your bosom. We are the couple of death We breathe Bacchus breath, We crippled all we could ever have. Why happiness when we can be damned and mad? Feed me your liqueur, The liquid from your veins. Make me numb and tender From the emerald fluid make my chains. What is this I see? My blurred vision is fooling me An odd presence at the door; A presence I can no longer ignore. A luminous figure revealed The glowing compassion I feared. I reached for the glass and the man sneered. I called for lethargy. Save me from this loathsome man Oh spirit of intoxication. Make real my final liberation No hope, no surrender just annihilation Someone knocked on the door Took me out of my lore Entered a man who came ashore To show me the light I abhor Oh Cesar, take back your empire I've got no more strength to conspire Taint my absinthe with hemlock And let me dwell in ancient Death's loch

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

"May we keep our treasure And all its glorious shine? It's our single life's pleasure To build and empire to brag and whine" Here I am, my puerile fools I came back from the abyss unborn Why do you still linger Life effigies of the past? Children of sand, Saturn's by the corner Giving the highest command - An eulogy of disorder. "Lambs, gaze the sky. I come to cleanse and beatify. I come to deface and nullify The uncontrollable urges of your skin." "You are forgiven in my solemn eyes. Burnt flesh tastes all the same. Screams and dreams, all consumed by my flame. Your world is mine to reclaim" Dance by the sound of my scorn A song for all of you I revile. False prophets gladly blind, Your heads all laid in a wondrous pile. "Freedom is overrated, and again We fall by the waltz of crows." May you keep your treasure, And all its glorious shine May you drown in your pleasure, A reverie of craving and wine. Your nooses are made of silver. Eternally strangling your vanity In the last moment That ephemeral shiver of humanity "Glamorous in our pitiful glen We go down dancing with our familiar woes. Hearing the sound of our own lies, Still feasting in a frenzy of folly and disgust." Nature decays it all It cares not for the origin of the fire. Your remains shall be forgotten, In the final abyss, the Destroyer's empire. "We crave everything. We need everything. We scoff at the burning. We take over the past. We dance until it lasts. Corrupted is our mind. Vain, prideful and blind. And we take everything." Disdain for life's grace Still falls from your lifeless face. Quit the night and seek the day. Why couldn't you change your way, For the knowledge I did convey? "Light is not for us", they said While burning in the valley of the dead Still searching for gold as their bread. Lavishing Plato's cave with no hope ahead, These are the true ghouls I dread. The crows shall feast on your flesh, And guide you to the emptiness you craved. This new world is not for you. "Let it come, let it be done, there's no undo. We are the intoxicated blood of this land." "Come now, pray to me. Come and embrace me. Come and feed me." "Come now, remember me. I've called you, sensually Come now, feed me."

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Our war Is finally here. Lenore, So long my dear. Our war Is finally here. Lenore, Dead, below the golden sphere. I see it all quite clear At the day of reckoning. Our worlds end here Between knife and spear. Only a king must prevail At the mountain of cruelty. Kneel before the sun and hail. No pity for frailty. Wolfs gather around Birds of prey abound To rip your eyes, Lenore And present you to the gods of yore. Here comes the Sun Light us, oh brightest one. Here comes the Sun. Our worlds are done. Fall down upon us. Here he comes, We wait for the end Destruction to ascend. Rape and plunder. Rip Macula's out of your chest. Shalott's head on your spears. Apophenia's severed head in tears. The road has ended, my Sun. Chrysopoeia is complete. We lived through dust and scorn, And made love with defeat All her limbs are on the floor A broken doll to ignore Lay dead, my sweet Lenore Forever forevermore

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025