An Oath to the Void
(Lyrics: A. Dujakovic, J. Bourdeau) The moon pulls The tempest lifts On a cauldron of sentient life An eternity of tireless waves Drawing us forth upon you Scintillating clouds of mist Embraced by your helm of darkness Never to rise from the depths A billion years of churning isolation Only your sighing tides Will echo through the fog For aeons of woe and silence...
Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025
(Lyrics: A. Dujakovic) In silent, eerie gaze I want nothing but to hold those burning embers Significance wanes Ashes scattered by winds To darkened skies Our souls encircled by woe Can't see past our horizons Soundless vacuum of space transcends The night Total abyss Stellar winds Celestial spheres... Up high! Seeking life past our stars Ablaze in the night We look for the signs A voice above does cry A call to explore the unknown They beckon us in soundless night... From Above Give me a sign Do not forfeit me to despair False prophets will never save us I shall swear an oath (to the void)
(Lyrics: A. Dujakovic, J. Bourdeau) A horizon of pine A shield of oak The gale breath of the Northern winds... Lamentations of yore 'Fore ages of Man Odes to Boreas echoed over the land In the forest below Where spirits roamed in darkness Bound in life, to stand guard after death Under grey skies Ripe with winter's chill "A few acres of snow", once hallowed ground. We've left the Earth A dead, cold world Stripped of its vigor By those it gave life The days grow cold The nights grow long Between Appalachia and the Shield On the stillest of nights When the frost grips the soil The light of the Aurora Still paints vivid dreams Bringing life to the emptiness Recalling what once was
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025
(Lyrics: J. Bourdeau) A dream is cut short, stifled... The path to truth shrouded The dominion of indoctrination Spewing forth callous lies Lo and behold! A skeptic resurgence Reclaiming logic once lost to the yoke of pious doctrine Every day, burning to push against the weight of collective cognition; a moral imperative A sudden lapse in perspective, a clash in the mind Is all it takes to stoke the glowing fires of reason! The Stars were not 'made' for the lowly man But man can conquer the stars through knowledge and will. “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands. Like an unctuous merchant, they offer solidarity and uplift; competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbaric they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.” - C. Hitchens
Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025
(Lyrics: J. Bourdeau) Nineteen Thirty Six An Icon of evil Broadcast into space At the speed of light A Space faring beholder ears trained to the void with vast cosmic knowledge yearning to share the enigmatic laws of the universe A message received a message returned Buried in prime numbers a framework for universal solidarity An uprising of joy Premonitions of pain Is this word of God? Is this life from beyond? A dodecahedron falls Through the heart of atomic structure Piercing through the fabric of space and time "A tingling in the spine A catch in the voice A faint sensation of a distant memory as if falling from a great height" - C. Sagan Lost between immensity and eternity A new cosmic perspective Thrust into the ocean of space and time Yearning to catch wind of intelligence that antedates the universe A puzzling axiom We struggled against the counterintuitive In direct contradiction to our prejudices The past proliferators of falsehood Now bow in shame to the paragon of truth.
Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025