On Lonely Towers

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I taste the broth that seeps down through the gorge I wipe the blade I once wrought from the forge The taste of flesh, the ash of oaken fires I bide my time by the mire until it dries To me the world is a heart No chambers void, some shallow And when the light prepares to depart A pulse for my breath to follow I sense the throes of twilight born anew I fear its wrath as all my brothers do Though life turns dark and movement steals the night I rejoice in the spoils at morning light To me the world is a heart No chambers void, some shallow And when the light prepares to depart A pulse for my breath to follow Retrieving senses dormant while daylight reigns The eyes of dusk ignite A promise of teeth and claw Revoke my bones from sleep Upon my tongue a feral howl Stars! Watchers of the dark Blood drips from my wailing plea Stars! I seek your blessing To paint the blood of my hunter Upon the weapon that reaps my prey To me the world is a heart No chambers void, some shallow And when the light prepares to depart A pulse for my breath, a pulse for my breath to follow

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Weave the intent from our resolved unknowing Present the solutions in a morose soliloquy And as we speak those final rhymes Paving the road for continuation A path to paradise Witness the blessed rotten flesh Mercy! These processions I’ve joined are not bound for rebirth They are frozen Heading for the sky Silently Never asking why... To be as one with Earth and the worm within it Will not suffice for those whom we know as sacred Between us we divide a boundless worth Projecting upon ourselves the elation I shall meet you in paradise, my beloved In memoriam These processions I’ve joined are not bound for rebirth And they seem so lost I am no less bound to this road But the pains and joys of certainty are not mine I am not staring beyond the clouds Not heading for the sky And silently Always asking why These processions I’ve chosen to follow have shackled me To the hearse that rides forever Into the sky Silently Never asking why

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

As dry as they come This desert ‘neath a hollow sun With nothing ahead But the ragged shapes of the dead A smile of the crazed Comes, settles and stays Empty before me, empty behind And the sun forever shines Nothing is the fire inside This be all end of life Waiting for the flame To tear through the game Ashes Night to revive The merciless tide That brings neither change nor life Carries a shapeless derelict On spectral waves of static There is a locker inside Where my heart forever lies On burning fields of blackened grain The flesh is a lie I am but a sigh In a storm of soul debris On burning fields of blackened grain The flesh is a lie I am but a sigh In a storm of soul debris Wrecked is the ship that tore through the crust For untold ages is strode with tattered bloody flags But in the depths where black voids erupt A still force engulfed the vessel’s might Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all Sailing on towards the sun The flame will tear through the game Night is revived Sailing on towards the sun Tortured eyes repeat the lie The flesh am I Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all Be all End all

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Hiding is a life for some We wait for the storms to come Maybe they are always there Striking down on others where we can’t go Crashing into their hearts Souls ablaze Thunder shaking their minds Wide awake In the dashing lightning In the pouring rain As their bodies burn A jolt of life for one last time As die rumbling drifts by and fades I can only claim to have dreamed And when the flicker in the clouds is to be seen no more I travel on Here we walk Every day Searching and dreaming ourselves out of the grey Colors bled from our hearts Ornate stains Flowing into our minds Wide awake In the flashing lightning In the pouring rain As our senses fade we feel desire to catch fire Call the storms To gather mind from matter Let the fire split the atoms Reassemble Ignite us Unite us O fork of electric demise Call the storms To gather mind from matter Let the fire split the atoms Reassemble Ignite us Unite us O fork of electric demise Autumn’s grey Floods the skies Colors fading from your eyes Fertile clouds Drifting in Waste no time Lightning strikes Crashing into our hearts Souls ablaze Thunder shaking our minds Wide awake In the flashing lightning In the pouring rain As my body bums I feel alive one last time Crashing into our hearts Souls ablaze Thunder shaking our minds Wide awake In the flashing lightning In the pouring rain As my body bums I feel alive one last time

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

I will rest here and I might not awake Was there ever a place for one to lie? It must be here An ocean green, oh... My hands on stone... Scarred and battled Shreds of banner cloth Dance recklessly in a desolate breeze Clinging to their weathered rods Perched on lonely towers Praying for faith under darkening clouds Songs of chaos burning holes in the sky Praying for faith under darkening clouds They marched on lonely towers Their screams live on As wraiths in the wind And only when time ends Their voices may be stilled ...Dire winds... ...Break the leaves... ...Failing suns... ...Beyond the mist... Who are you? A promise from the spirits of life Darkness has ceased to flood my mind I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn to die My body is weak But my will takes flight I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn to die I still wait to die And as you speak My fear subsides I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn arrives! I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn arrives! I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn arrives! I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn arrives! I will wait until the dawn I will wait until the dawn arrives!

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Dissolved the bonds of brothers Now the fires have witnessed lives tom On these fields of loss no order had ever resided At the hour of extermination None had lived for gold, none had lived for hate And as the bloodsmoke rose I realized I may have decided this Sunshine failing In blackened monotone Like songs within me Chaos echoes Stars unveiling On heaps I stand alone Like songs within me Chaos echoes through A sense of darkness and war I’ve known it before Revolt! A wonder of this Sacrifice, we shun the lies born To spread die flame across the borders in which I confided In vain! We are the oncoming... storm! The sun has died We watch the dark arrive Providing the fissures Energy Shattering barricades Force Defying black visions Purify Preparing the mighty for Defeat Providing the fissures Energy Shattering barricades Force Defying black visions Purify Preparing the mighty for Defeat Dissolved the bonds of brothers Now the fires have witnessed lives tom On these fields of loss no order had ever resided At the hour of extermination None had lived for gold, none had lived for hate And as the bloodsmoke rose I realized I may have decided this Sunshine failing In blackened monotone Like songs within me Chaos echoes Stars unveiling On heaps I stand alone Like songs within me Chaos echoes through I sense the darkness of war I’ll know it now as before...

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

She hides in the nightshades on the bank Where the soft stream runs far A vault of no disclosure Sharp glimmers cast from old tears Trembling in the cold fire of stars Weighted and deep Love is the hand that wrecks my flesh Love is the eye that stares silent upon my aching wounds At dusk the calm water turns black Slow ripples form an aperture In a receiving ocean Love is the fire that burns my world Love is the lie that turns the wheels within my core As I fly Love is the breath that rots my dreams Love is the lie that turns the wheels within my core In the end Young eyes shine the fear of father's will And weep for a mother's kind heart Tears for the deep

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025