Dark Arms Reach Skyward With Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid
O spiralling night Guide my feet surely forward Through the teeming dark It begins again As it ended once before The fate of destruction is the joy of rebirth The crimson water The tumulting clouds At the trembling edge of the earth The seas will rise The skies asunder The earth will crumble Beneath our unworthy feet God is real He is here now And His fury hath no equal Wings As wide as the horizon What horror we awakеned here A coldеr, darker sun is rising Radiating with despondence and fear Beset by legions are we At the red dawn This new era of plague Its fabric interlacing Manifold iniquities Quietus untold A lament for the matron Coronach coruscant A threnody enamelled with hoarfrost Thy blood and cross bestowed My scourge, my saviour As the waves heave and subside Arc discharge wreathes from your ire Until we meet again Every failure always leads To these empty, snow-swept streets Eternally Our hope is fragile And we cling to it Like filthy bedsheets But I abjure I am so fucking tired of cowering Prostrate, groveling Before the vagaries of providence By the power solemnly vested in me By my maker I plant my feet in dissent Dark arms reach skyward With bone white fingers And I see your face In the light of the open sky The end came and left us And still, we linger I swear I won’t let go I’ll pare away at the threads of this night Save me Raise me up Take my hand I swear that I won’t let go Adrift Forsaken I watched it all Come down And swore To silence
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Sleepless nights again I lie and wait for nothing And endure the heat I keep having that same dream I get on the wrong bus To disembark before a vast and empty plain Without discernible landmark I try and fail to find my way Through landscapes distorted My compass spiralling aimless We share our first And final words every day And know nothing of each other My life has been Bedevilled with transience Faces interchanging constantly And without constancy Oil and water, I said Oil and water But which am I? Another ceiling I don’t recognize Another room we will both soon leavе As strangers Dawn is coming soon I've paced thеse floors through the night Gone before you wake
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At this convergence Of purposelessness Terror and tragedy In which we find ourselves A preordained fate Meticulously fabricated Out of steel, bone, and sinew By the tendrils of the singularity Of fiendly rigour And carnivorous divine We find propinquity in our fatigue At our fortune’s vicissitudes Incited, goaded By adherents of apocrypha Our counterposition is nigh Take up the sword; leave the quill Be the change You long for To wander down the path Just as you and I havе Necessitates tеnacity These pawns could never grasp Outlast this preordained fate Meticulously fabricated Out of steel, bone, and sinew They persistently misappraise us And therein lies our advantage You kill Or you die Get inside, grip the knife Our kind has no time In nomine domini, withstand Take this precious life in your hands Face into the wind and take the plunge What the fuck is up, baby? Move Wrest it from their hands Position target Destroy
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Retribution There is dread in the waiting A clench in my viscera A trepidation no earthly tonic can quell But when the promised hour arrives at last It is with certitude that I avow We will rise to meet it With nerve, and valour And a ruthlessness Well-befitting The turpitude Of our adversaries Victory or death Teething Gnashing Teething On the rind I entreat you My multitudinous, intrepid peers They will grant you no quarter So grant them none in kind O piteous, unworthy foe So long as I draw breath I shall not relent When my chamber clicks empty You will taste the barrel When it shatters, you will feel my blade When the gore-slick haft slithers from my clasp I will use my fists, my fingers And when my phalanges spall I shall gnash and glut Teething on the rind Incisors slowly squelching I’ll sink my molars deep As the collarbone caves in And taste of the marrow’s tang
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Holy shit In my heart of hearts I think I know it’s just a matter of time Before I take my leave of this desolate place For horizons that I simply cannot divine And as My time slips away I can Still feel your presence Evenfall Be still, my heart Sometimes I like to wander the long night To stand and stare at the moonlight And ask myself these haunting questions If I’d tried to understand you Even half as well As I’ve come to understand myself Maybe things would be different Maybe you’d still be here But I can’t reach through to you Maybe you’d still be here And maybe I’d still be here too But I’ve lost too much Chasing after you I’m taking it back Set me free Let me walk into the sea You’re everything I’ll never be I think I should be on my way tonight In time, we’ll see Give me strength Give me all that I can take I swear my craven heart won’t break Just hold me till the sun goes down Don’t you dare let go of me I pray the wind Carries me far away To where relentless cold Grips the earth’s arteries To where the cliff face whispers With the secrets of another world That’s long since passed away Be still, my heart Refine my aperture Show me what you see Show me A face reflected in your eyes That I don’t recognize as mine Interrupt to end my sentence Words I’d never speak in my life Introspection breeds seclusion Isolation, slow decline Self-aware / self-flagellation Don’t you fucking touch me I’d rather die You wanna use me up? Well baby, now that’s just my luck I’ve been searching for a crumb of peace And I’ve found it Want me to throw it away? I’m sick of making myself your sidekick Giving it all, getting nothing back And still feeling indebted I said I’ve felt this burning in my chest Since 1993, and God damn it, I meant it I made a promise to myself I’d only Settle for a good death, and fucking I’ve kept it ‘Cause it’s the year of our lord, 2026 No pussy shit, girl, you’re fucking not dead yet You’d better take this life for all it’s worth There’s no time for regret Save that shit for your deathbed We can no longer afford To hold what doesn’t serve us We can no longer afford To live without a sense of purpose If it depletes you, leave it ‘Cause there is nothing else there I don’t know what I’m searching for But I pray I’ll find it elsewhere Turn the page, enough No time to turn around You’ve shown me grace and love You’ve never let me down But my time has come It’s always running out And I can’t wait Take my hand in yours And press it to your lips Look in my eyes once more There’s a face I won’t forget And through the open door My first unwavering step ‘Cause I can’t wait Set me free Let me walk into the sea You’re everything I’ll never be I think I should be on my way tonight In time, we’ll see Give me strength Give me all that I can take I swear my craven heart won’t break I’ll finally start my life Don’t you dare let go of me In time, we’ll see just What this chase holds for me ‘Cause this place has only Been a disappointment And my friends don’t know me And I’m scared, but I can’t wait To finally start my life today Set me free We’ll see what this chase holds for me This place was a disappointment And I’m scared, but can’t wait To finally start my life today Set me free
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Embrace the sun You answer every time I call I want to taste you through the wall Behind the glass, I’ll eat you whole For nothing And from here, I can see it all How far we’ve come, how far we’ll fall And in the beating sun, we’ll fuck And die, and be reborn Two hands, a mouth, and a phone Straight from the pit to the throne This city’s crowded And I’m sick of being alone The concrete trap of the sprawl The whirlwind pace of it all The wondering if I’ll ever find my way out Soft, o thurifer Makе for the conifers With those feet you shod Your fеar of God compels me not This plane we haunt, it’s what you want Be it heaven, home, or hell Obey yourself or no one Caught this fire in my hands I swear that this time I will not throw it away I worship the sun And the wind blowing strong at my back And I just keep on Giving my heart away Giving it all away That’s why I’m lonely So don’t just tell me you’ve been Thinking of me again Between midnight and 5 AM Come home and hold me Come hold me, darling, dear Why does everyone that I meet Fall in love with me? Look at me Watching you Watching me Touch me Don’t touch me Fuck me Fuck you Pay me Look at me Watching you Watching me Touch me Don’t touch me Fuck you All you whores are the same You want the money and fame I do this shit just for the love of the game This footage will not be seen It’s between you, me, and God I hope he’s watching, just outside of the frame Boy, are you brave enough To show when you say you will For such a low-stakes involvement? Time it and name the place I leave the rest up to fate But men fear when fate comes calling And she comes in my wake The space between Too near and too far I know where this leads I know what you are In Summer 2025 I partook of a rather unusual hobby I would meet with strange men in their homes And film myself performing oral sex on them These videos were never distributed They were for my own private collection I used to make porn when I was younger And this was my way of recapturing The things that I enjoyed about it The art, the eroticism, and most of all Being able to watch myself afterward I told the first few men in advance That I would not want to kiss But I always kissed them I told them that I didn’t want to be touched But sometimes, I let them Sometimes, they gave me gifts I had many interesting conversations With these men And many unexpected moments of tenderness They often told me that I was kind That I made them feel calm and comfortable But it was never about them This was about me Me, watching me, looking at me, fucking me God, for once in my fucking life Let one thing that I do Be about me
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-XIV- J: I don't really believe in fate, but I do believe that there’s a path laid for me, and every decision I’ve made is gonna lead me where I’m going to go, and the end destination is the only place I want to reach -I- M: Over the past five years, a lot of beautiful things have come from the growing pains that I went through. I said yes to a lot of things I normally wouldn’t have, simply because change and newness is tеrrifying. But the truth is, all the good shit that you can possibly expеrience comes from newness. I am extremely grateful -II- H: Home is where I lay my head, surrounded by things that I chose. If I’ve allowed my soul to enter that space, that’s home for me -III- N: We need allies more than ever. I feel like a lot of people would have our backs if they really understood what we’re about and the threat we’re facing. Just talking to them, explaining what’s up in terms they could understand, and answering their questions with patience -IV- E: I feel like it’s time to pick up a fucking brick and actually fight back. A system that oppresses us and is violent against us deserves violence as a response J: We’re gonna fight for our right to live. We’re gonna fight for our right to exist -V- H: I had such a need to know the truth, and my quest to find the truth and get the peace that I needed caused several people in my life to turn N: Each time I fucked off out of town with my backpack and my tent, when I was on the road, I realized that I felt as alone and misunderstood as at home -VI- H: I had a huge revelation that it isn’t selfish to take care of yourself, because I was giving everything away -IX- N: I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted from life, so when I met someone that was looking at me like I was the most beautiful thing in the world, I wanted to fucking drown myself in it L: I think love can be really fucking powerful in that way. It can physically make you ill -X- A: Have you ever been with someone who felt like the right person for you, but the timing wasn’t quite right? J: Well… yeah. You L: I do think things kind of fall in place. It’s all connection. It’s all people connecting, and if a connection was meant to be, it would be -XI- E: My parents—I realized that even if they weren’t perfect, they were kind of doing what they could at the time with what resources they had. They do love me, even if they can’t understand everything L: I don’t think I knew my mother very well. She was very hidden. I did learn that I don’t want a life like hers. She didn’t really try to do anything. She was always scared -XII- M: Fuck you. I still love you. I’ll always love you. And also, I probably will never see you again, and I don’t wish to -VIII- A: What role has choice played in your journey with addiction? J: My choice was to… stop feeling like shit
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You were inescapable I saw your frosted webbing In the corner of Every crowded room Your writhing shadow On every dimly lit wall Till your hydraulic tarsus made Purchase upon my pallid flesh I can feel your Pedipalps abrading The nape of my neck O God unholy All shall be erased I can feel your Pedipalps abrading On my neck O God unholy Thought I could sink forever I had eternity on my mind But my peace was cold Ill at ease and vacant My tubes were stitched together I just kept doing it all the time How could I have thought That I could sustain this? Convulsing on the porcelain To purge a single drop of ochre What can a wretch do but laugh As their flesh rots slowly all around them? As their offal liquefies? Between my retches I entreat Show me your true face Show me the hand that grasps As yellow eyes roll back Lesioned nostrils leaking Rime-white rheum speckled with blood Bodies twisted in the flood Show me everything Then show me God God unholy Blood congeals so quickly I wished it would flow Unimpeded as acetone From this accordioned flesh Both too coward And not coward enough To pierce the vein But I digress O God unholy Worthiest foe I have ever faced Your time has come at last With this blood I absolve myself And turn my blade unto you With the anabatic winds Of the sprawl’s canopy Billowing all around me I shall not relent I’ll rend and tear Until your head is cleaved Until the haemolymph Oozing out of your thorax Corrodes the rain-wet asphalt O God unholy O God unholy Chelicera
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I saw a girl in the crowd tonight Who looked exactly like you From the cheekbones up I couldn’t believe how beautiful she was What more is there to say? There are many things that I regret But “us” was never one of them You are woven inextricably Through the tapestry of my life And I am blessed for it I am blessed for it Gules Bellicose nocturnal Sweltering and blotted Argent The melody of watеr Raag Lalit ushering luxuriant dawn Sable The еnfolding dark Our path ahead uncertain What a lovely dream we wove But it was time for me to wake When will it be yours? You told me once I was the first To treat you as an equal I knew then That this was sacred That I could only cherish you Even if some part of you Yearned to be sullied And if that was To mean our end So be it Crystal breath And havocked drag We let her wander home alone We should have known I should have known I knew you’d wander away from me I think you wander away from yourself Sometimes I knew you’d wander away And that I could do nothing But wait for the end So I watched you go I knew you’d wander away from me I think you wander away from yourself Sometimes I knew you’d wander away And that I could do nothing But wait for the end I knew you’d wander away from me First went lust, then trust, the rest Till I was barely a spark in your eye I recognize myself in you I always have This place you’re in now I know it well And enthralling as it may be It will not serve you It did not serve me And as long as I met you there I knew we could serve each other No more The truth is with you Don’t hesitate Move ahead If I can see you again I will repeat the very words I spoke six years ago Because I meant them then And now, and always Fly on Fly on My wayward heart
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I was always told I had my mother’s eyes And my father’s voice But as you held my face in your hands I feel you truly saw me as I am For the first time What was it that you saw? Did it frighten you? We are more alike than you realize Perhaps more than you can forgive Things have always been this way A word of kindness, and then, we drink Until we feel nothing Until we forget Your final lesson to me Was how to numb myself I’ll no longer live in a manner That petitions for your approval I see the path that you have walked I see where it’s led you I see what it’s taken I see what it has taken Admonishmеnt Is perhaps the purest form of lovе A hardened stoic can impart Grant me the fortitude to receive it To meet gracelessness with grace And absolve us both ‘Cause I’ve searched through my heart And found nothing but love And I know that you love me too And I’m asking myself Why I’m asking myself If I’m sober enough for you There is a tender warmth in you A heart that yearns to know And be known Let it breathe, and repose And as I honoured myself in parting I shall honour your parting words Your parting words “From now on You’re on your own Go forth and prosper My wayward child And save us all”
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Disclaimer I am about to embarrass myself But my psychotherapist recently advised me To avoid repressing uncomfortable feelings And strive to disentangle myself from them Through constructive catharsis Something about keeping My blood pressure down You know, I’m quite close To my mid-thirties now And I need to start thinking About these kinds of things I have made one such attempt here Which you will likely judge To be in poor taste And based on an esoteric definition Of “constructive” In brief, with apologies I’ll make a mountain of this molehill One last time The blood ritual could not be undone So we cut our losses Serenades and razor blades Convalescence, trite clichés Chemistry like lightning From trembling fingertips And nothing to offer but air But we turned up the music Assumed our positions I kept my composure But couldn’t keep my distance And I I drank your poison like your angel blood But I guess “you’re so good” Didn’t quite mean good enough I thought we would live forever I thought we would live forevermore It’s only me, it’s only you Tangled wires and dangling drip bags Jet black hair and choking smog Darkest sacrament A self-fulfilling curse Seraphic tragedy Mend your broken wings with safety pins I purged your pixellated curvatures But the mildew I only see Out of the corner of my eye Wouldn’t wash out So I named it after you My Angel of Death Death of what Exactly? What died, and where? Can you point to it? Plausible deniability is the weapon of choice Of every coward from here to the Potomac You wield it poorly And always struck me as one Of more bespoke taste So why don’t you Strike me harder next time? Hit me harder next time Hold me, scold me Save me, scathe me Oh my God Breathe me, bleed me Fuck me, kill me I don’t care I don’t need you I consummated our love with my right hand And a baggie of ket in my left Because I am, as you say Mentally and emotionally fucking unstable I often think about what you said That I’d get everything I wanted And you’d end up alone Did you? I often think about what you said “Nobody’s ever looked at me The way that you are now” I said, “Think you could get used to it?” You did This town, burdened with our failures Wasn’t big enough for us It’s only me, it’s only you Only me, it’s only you Angel present Pattern blue Pattern fucking blue The way your hair fell past your cheekbones The way the light changed as the sun came down The way that the blood trickled down my arm The weight of your palms on my hip bones I never washed your blood out of my mattress I was always rather fond Of the way you looked at me When we were alone Sometimes, I still Catch myself wishing I was alone in your room With you That’s love, I suppose That’s love, I suppose Always breaking before it bends Before it bends It’s only me It’s only you Be well
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“Do you believe in God?” Yes And no
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jul 01, 2026
I feel my walls coming down I feel you there in everything I see Feel the weight slowly lifting With every step, with every breath I breathe I am uncertain if there is a God But if there is, I am quite certain That none of our paradigms For understanding Him Are close to sufficient And they are all of them befouled With vanity and ulterior impetus And I am certain Perhaps callowly That this world that surrounds us In all its calamitous beauty And scintillating horror Its senseless order and temperеd chaos Could never have been rеalized without intent This is my vision of God A formless, sovereign, unfathomable intent Engaged in a CMS of panoptic scale Fastidious in its construction And not ambivalent, but omnivalent To its unraveling For my uncertainty I am certain of this I looked at my hands And saw they were yours I was suddenly you Sitting in your room And I realized that the only thing That separates me from you Is the choices we’ve made The paths that we’ve walked And the architecture of our hearts What absurdity to feel alone To feel you’ve been left here with nothing We are all threads woven of the same fabric Adjoining In a cosmic latticework Of possibility Everything is always Already here, and it’s Waiting for you to reach Out and take what is yours Everything is always Already here, and it’s Waiting for you to reach out You and me The invisible, infrangible bonds between us Sun, and air, and moon, and earth The perdurant undulation of the tides The lights of the city refracting The sun-dappled grass The quiet rustling of leaves in the autumn wind And the immutable truth That as long as we are alive We will always have the chance to be happy O glory Kind stranger who cries in the dark With hands clasped And watches it all fall apart God is in all of us We are boundless, eternal There is no room left for fear in my heart Only love, and song, and fervour And hope that a better world is possible If we try If we make it out alive If we make it home tonight Then nothing can take this from us If we make it through the night There’ll be nothing left but light That shines out from deep inside us
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