A Complex of Cages
Waves (blight-plagued) On fields of grey (Slow-churning) Pull him out of his ode (Near perfect) to fear Drowns in a note in dire thought (Unleavened) In the black sea (Where days go) Oh how could he ever know (Sightless) That fear sleeps with eyes closed In a ghostly haze He harvest the tides of time That may feed the living fortress Silverscarred and boundless In the ghostly haze There is no place or time And inside the living fortress The harvestman roams sightless Deadlights hover on shreds of age Ripped from an image of fate A rabid jester rubbing his jaded eyes Vision inflamed with dark silver, boundless Waves on fields of grey Pull him out of his ode And fear drapes the space Above his world (Unleavened) And the black sea (Where days go) Silent, waits for him there (Sightless) By the edge of colour and the ravine The immediate grace is to repent and suffer Disrobe to imitate levels Where outlanders may indulge Lay up every layer stripped from you In a ghostly haze He harvest the tides of time That may feed the living fortress Silverscarred and boundless In the ghostly haze There is no place or time And inside the living fortress The harvestman roams sightless Sightless
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025
Borne in the spiteful red Long lost I've feared to meet those eyes And I might only reach that level In tatters Flow recollected Scraped out of soil (No sides) There appear to be no sides to take And skywards points the ruby Concealing codes (codes unrepaired) That harbour the way out (This void) Oh I wish there was something at stake These voices cracked the ruby What codes (code retraced) Could harbour the way out of this A chance to falter A loss without dissent One step towards the distant ravine Carnal honour wreathed in toxin Vile by design (No sides) There appear to be no sides to take And skywards points the ruby Concealing codes (codes unrepaired) That harbour the way out (This void) Oh I wish there was something at stake These voices cracked the ruby What codes (code retraced) Could harbour the way out of this We, the righteous two From one to another Sever this jagged shard Borne in the spiteful red (No sides) There appear to be no sides to take And skywards points the ruby Concealing codes (codes unrepaired) That harbour the way out (This void) Oh I wish there was something at stake These voices cracked the ruby What codes (code retraced) Could harbour the way out of this
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
A slew of impossible outcomes in pale light Flaunting their violence gleefully Revolving this wistful room Calling out a sickening effort from all sides A swiftness at the end, a cut before the bend A storm, a calm, a blend That each spectator craves I rip out their intestines of a dream I found the way Through this system Through these arches of gold Leading further down, down I found a way Of birthing existence Into rivers of old Leading further down Sheer essence belied an appearance of frailty But shine of the dawn Reveals your ill-conceived absence Stringed fleets of eyeless spies unveiled me Now they are obliged to serve me Begs the question: Why abandon the enlightened And follow the fool? I dredge up the black anchors on my chains Repairless, unending The living slow decay A silver of guidance Erodes on boiling clay You witnessed the ruin Of all connection Now retrace the threads so pale You may find the way
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025
Walls and waterfalls Ground to mist against them all Bronze shackles rip Tear at flesh before they break The flood took the fires Carried them away from here Bleak attempt to reach Above where the echoes flow And gush, gush off the plateau Seething on my hold A shiver halts from stride... Yet you were promised painless aeons You've watched it all go by A shiver halts your stride A weakness in design With pride and lowered head You bless the wayward dead Throw dust in their smiles You've watched it all go by A blinded world You've watched it all go by A blinded, cursed world Enter Dig deep And find them fireless and low Pour those white streams Into each hollow crevice Bless them Bind them And leave them harnessed in the fold Passionblind scavenger Consume the noxious riverglow Zealous heart Beyond the frail ashen voice Jagged shard Of a once worshipped choice Zealous heart (be still now) You've watched it all go by Jagged shard (tumbling through) A cursed world
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025
Writhe futile Flutter into shallow reprieve And for a bleak while Heaven doth upon, bare to achieve A living fortress now revolving in stasis Well maintained self Scatterprey willing A pulse in the haze beckons Into the traction of sky icons Cast a shadow foe far across the water Break the paltry light in the undergrowth Where the fearful lovers pray For the wind to come Fledglings, gaze to the wind Hearken the whisper you ride And viciously you sever the final thread In the whirl, back they float Higher (Higher) in the thermal column Circle slow, fiercely scan Wired (Wired) to dilute the air of song Was lost in sound The scent reversed A swift rebound Now undeterred In the whirl, back they float Higher (Higher) in the thermal column Circle slow, fiercely scan Wired (Wired) to dilute the air of song Mired (Mired) in the path I've taken
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
There was a time Of a roaring fire storming inside A dull disinclination now Has come to you to abide Prematurely strayed away From the howling storm Sense the wilted flower And enter the pith of solitude The stars revolve in black As thine aching lust has awakened Evading dusk, the flames of ecstasy To the pith of solitude I shrink as I bewail The giant of red Shed no light of sympathy Respite of vanish relentlessly As you repose In the briny depths of the sea Strayed away From the howling storm And the dying stars... The stars revolve in black As thine aching lust has awakened Evading dusk, the flames of ecstasy To the pith of solitude I shrink as I bewail The giant of red Shed no light of sympathy Restless in stillness Once relieved by tribulation Delivered by the moon Ushered to the desolate sea Guts of wind rising Serenity destined to wither In the twilight hour As shrinks the daylight I stand beneath the eyes Of forgotten aspirations The void is swollen By the ghost unborn And I lay down the burden Of infinite mysteries Prematurely strayed away From the howling storm Sense the wilted flower And enter the pith of solitude
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025
Layers upon layers of night (Form over white dunes) Liquid light running deep (Flowing blue) He lies writhing A faint sentry (Within waves of bloodred) Agony apparent (From the blue, tears were shed) Our fears are the same Expressed freely through alternate avenues Having different outcomes Severe or inconsequential? What role belongs to will? The re-opening Of my sequestered world The colour is drained And the nights are fading out Dysphoria The re-opening Of my recluded soul The blackness that roared Cannot take its final hour Dysphoria And so we remain Stare into one layer after another While unwilling, unconscious, unreal We are drowning deeper In a song I embrace... The re-opening Of my sequestered world The colour is drained And the nights are fading out Dysphoria The re-opening Of my recluded soul The blackness that roared Cannot take its final hour Dysphoria Abhorring the silence A summoned past recourse Encasing the island Boldly As is my freedom Come sweet slumber... The black returns to me now The colour is drained And the nights are fading out Dysphoria The re-opening Of my recluded soul The blackness that roared Cannot take its final hour Dysphoria The re-opening Of my sequestered world The colour is drained And the nights are fading out Dysphoria Dysphoria Dysphoria...
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
In the accolades I rub my spirit raw In every crack regalia fester (golden scars to testify) A rolling gait Through plebs impassions one and all To subjugate and turn to power designs (battering minds) I feel encouraged by the threat That overhangs my rage Spurs me on to pierce the veil (regain the strides that drowned inside) Getting closer the source of an honor I believe that this is where the ire began Higher higher Cast into more than being Dire words Lashing me on Lawless, piercing through the echoing avarice Riding on the blackened waves forlon (Reflecting waves like broken shards) Introspective, anchored, malevolent Bleak resolve, all bets are open! Higher higher Cast into more than being Dire words Lashing up harrowing fiends Higher higher On the teeth of a raging sea Then immersed In the flash of a still forming spire (Loss) I've repaired this enclosure Mourned the loss of a notion For days and years (Years so low) Low was that world (world without will) Will all this silence be broken while (We live) (Ever long) I've repaired this enclosure (Wrath of the ocean) Battled the wrath of this ocean Around our isle Proud astride the grime-tressed mare I interjected And called the hordes to me All the while lacking the skill to lead Thus vexed I laid my scorn On bleating masses Swung the workhorse of despair Took the gallop towards the precipice (Loss) I've repaired this enclosure Mourned the loss of a notion for days and years (So low) Low was that world (world without still) Will rose higher devotion found (We lived) (Ever long) I've repaired this enclosure (Wrath of the ocean) And seen the wrath Of this ocean reform our fears (Downcast) Cast into more (more than mere will) Will all these shards remain broken still? (Lashing me on) On - Forlorn blackened waves On - Lashing me on On - Forlorn blackened waves On - Lashing me onto the spire
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025
And so they move With narrow purpose A metropolis Brought to the boil Rush through the rain Head down in trenches Departure, return And the sum of all is none A new morning is given me And I'm not ready Again the countless paths I choose them all once more How long 'till dawn How long 'till evening The days hang heavy on each hour They seem so far gone In a complex of cages And the dreaded breakout looms A new morning is given me And politely received Still the countless truths remain Hidden Downbound from honest misery Who could settle for tears alone No fire No frost No flesh to distract From a light so mindless How close we kept empathy Did it serve our intentions well? No mind No soul No will to abstract From a light so mindless Downbound from honest misery Who could settle for tears alone No fire No frost No flesh to distract From a light so mindless How close we kept empathy Did it serve our intentions well? No mind No soul No will to abstract From a light so mindless From a light so mindless
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025