Hrēow
Dawn illuminates my flaws I'm a master of cowards and a servant to whores At my command, I sail seas of regret The course can't be altered - the horizon is set I feel like all shadow and pain in existence My wretched flesh offers no resistance To the unfulfilled, even bitter tastes sweet And I hunger for all I can feast The pursuit of the light, from the storms a respite Is a foul, elusive beast We are all funeral Weeping Shaking Broken Heads down Remember; the wolves at your door Will keep calling your name And stalk you on banks of fear, guilt, regret and shame I'm an empty shell, to the wilderness cast No gods above or below My suffering unsurpassed
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
And in the halls That once housed song and victory Was now host to constant dusk Where echoes of joy were all that remained Here sits a broken man Cloaked in shadows, and memories Granted worthless treasures And empty works for company The grave of the past is too shallow Easily my follies rise And bind me with threads of remorse I walk between pillars of pestilence And are these tears that so often run That of fear or desperation I can never tell For I never see the sun Break through the endless cloud Crowned king of the worthless, No friends, no allies, no rivals Cursed and blessed with solitude, Guardian of the stone spiral Daughter, fear the calm before the storm I was at my highest before the fall And chase the prize of contentment Or face your Fathers demons and resentment
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
My veins are full of ashes, pumped by a heart in mourning Realization that I cannot be saved Only now is sadly dawning Curse the bones that carry the flesh That hold burdens close to my chest Curse the sun that burns up the sky And lights up ruin and decay to these eyes At the fading of the light, to whom do you kneel When all faith is lost And when you keep watch on cloudless nights What do you see? I spent my time in dark places and grew accustomed To the light My moral compass is cracked, the map in flames No assurance now to what’s right At the fading of the light, to whom do you kneel When all faith is lost And when you keep watch on cloudless nights What do you see? Eternally building monuments to loss Build them to hope fallen Heavy and great the sacrifice The dark and the nothing is forever calling...
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
Under the suns watchful gaze In hedged field or Long grassed valley I would run The evening air Warm and sweet The rolling green The dips and peaks Surveying the endless heaven Stick in hand Joy in heart Winters morning dew and mist Till Summers breeze through hair did kiss We were Emperors of Farm and wood Mighty as the oak Humble as the leaf As if carried by stream and brook Childhood and youth the fields took My days are now filled with grey and black An old man longing for memories back I'm so tired Satisfied by nothing I see I yearn for those ancient times
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
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Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
Once regarded In golden halls Now the clouds cast My lengthening shadow And nights’ voices find me While they lived a thousand lifetimes I died a thousand deaths They felt summer smile I was marked by winter’s breath In the ruins of man and mortality I am barely held together With threads of promise Hope never took seed here And these arms that once held promise Now craft ruin And even with a hollow crown, my head is heavy Spineless and addicted I loathe this flesh There is nothing here now Wretched and beaten Time has eaten Away any trace of life See through Faded Tired And jaded
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
At 8 knots, 3 days Sailing close to the shore Land marks guide the way to the spoils of war Village lights dance in the fog the long grass sways The warmth of friends Chases away winters wolves Unannounced the flames, hoards My family gone As if they were never there Never has the moon lit such grief Or sang without a care Flames lick the heavens Taking away all that’s mine And darkness now a gateway Read the signs I've lost everything And still I continue Digging in the dirt To resurrect remains Of a life once known Holding on to memories That let go of me Clutching nothing Can you hear it? The lack of everything It screams, It pierces I'm run aground On shores of promise At night I still see fires in the distance It never fades
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Jun 21, 2026
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