Siltskin
Skeletal monuments, once proud and strong<br/> Now crumbling beneath acidic fingertips<br/> Your whispers corrode my weakening frame, each word<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> I taste mineral death upon your lips<br/> Each kiss extracts another fragment of my spine<br/> Jaw unhinged from truth's last gasp<br/> As our foundation crumbles<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> This is what remains<br/> Slivers embedded in walls we built<br/> You mine my skeleton for sustenance<br/> Harvesting what structure remains between us<br/> My skull, a bowl to catch the dripping memories<br/> That crystalize to needles piercing through<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Marrow drained and replaced with sand<br/> Our sacred frame desecrated<br/> These pillars of us crumble in my hands<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> Bone by bone, we're excavated<br/> Fragments scattered where vows once stood<br/> Marrow sucked from hollow promises<br/> Your teeth gnaw through what remained of good<br/> <br/> Fragments floating in the wine we share<br/> Your whispers still echo in the caverns you hollowed out<br/> I watch you carve away my sternum<br/> Scraping out the cartilage that once cushioned blows<br/> My ribs, a cage you pry apart with measured force<br/> Where devotion once resonated<br/> <br/> This is what remains<br/> Slivers embedded in walls we built<br/> Fragments floating in the wine we share<br/> Your chants still ring
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Open the doors<br/> Introduce infectious spores through the halls<br/> Bite into nothing, extinguish the light<br/> Welcome to the rot of night<br/> <br/> Summon the void<br/> All essence ruined in ominous light<br/> Melting away into cups of malice<br/> Bathed in dismay, blinded eternal bliss<br/> <br/> Candles sputter in breathless halls<br/> Golden glow on walls that rot<br/> Laughter drips like venom sweet<br/> While famine gnaws beneath your feet<br/> <br/> Goblets brim with molten sky<br/> Chalice raised to hollow tides<br/> Hunger sated, debts repaid<br/> Banquet carved from brittle veins<br/> <br/> Meatless bones on silver trays<br/> Fingers grasp, but crumble away<br/> No harvest yields, no seed remains<br/> Yet still the feast adorns decay<br/> <br/> Goblets brim with molten sky<br/> Chalice raised to hollow tides<br/> Hunger sated, debts repaid<br/> Banquet carved from brittle veins<br/> <br/> Devour the hollow, drink deep the waste<br/> Feast upon famine, let hunger erase<br/> Bite into nothing, let bones collapse<br/> Drowning in opulence, kingdom of wax<br/> <br/> Devour the hollow, drink deep the waste<br/> Feast upon famine, let hunger erase<br/> Bite into nothing, let bones collapse<br/> Drowning in opulence, kingdom of wax<br/> <br/> Tables melt in flickering light<br/> Flesh turns brittle, swallowed by night<br/> Tongues taste dust, throats run dry<br/> Still the feast denies its lie<br/> <br/> Goblets brim with molten sky<br/> Chalice raised to hollow tides<br/> Hunger sated, debts repaid<br/> Banquet carved from brittle veins<br/> <br/> Drip by drip, the banquet fades<br/> Nothing but hollow parades<br/> When the last flame flickers and dies<br/> Who will remain to consume the sky?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Within chambers of relentless decline<br/> A pulse tolls each fading beat<br/> Where shadows confess rusted relics<br/> Fragments of glass refract a broken past<br/> Reflecting forsaken substance, dilapidated<br/> <br/> Through crevices in time-worn flesh<br/> Ignored by the living, hushed tones rise and flow<br/> Shattered essence imprisoned in ruin's maze<br/> Treading disintegrated paths<br/> Where fractured visions stray<br/> <br/> Flesh dissipates into broken matter<br/> Merging with pallid dismay<br/> Air deserts the contour<br/> Swept away by erosion's quiet command<br/> <br/> Drifting through a shrouded abyss<br/> Where chaos unspools<br/> Splinters of what was once whole<br/> Buried in total disintegration<br/> <br/> Crumbling walls pulsate with archaic beat<br/> Vessels etch a shrine of petrified bone<br/> Sculpting subdued chaos past human ken<br/> Being distorts under time's reign<br/> <br/> Flesh dissipates into broken matter<br/> Merging with pallid dismay<br/> Air deserts the contour<br/> Swept away by erosion's quiet command<br/> <br/> Drifting through a shrouded abyss<br/> Where chaos unspools<br/> Splinters of what was once whole<br/> Buried in total disintegration<br/> <br/> Tendrils of decay bind splintered thought<br/> Pieces of time coil around a hardened spine<br/> Reflections shatter into a warped visage<br/> In scattered truth, self disintegrates<br/> <br/> Eyes sealed, yet visions endure<br/> Subdued strains entwine within<br/> Chilling traces mark a surface left unscarred<br/> In realms of disarray, logic is cast aside<br/> <br/> In still vigil, awaiting the collapse<br/> Visages empty<br/> Dim traces of buried brilliance<br/> <br/> Years of misery<br/> No cry nor sorrow rings out<br/> Only the wander of forgotten forms<br/> Drifting, unclaimed, a broken visage<br/> <br/> Once vibrant, now withered<br/> Amid the still of disarray<br/> Final remnant takes hold<br/> <br/> Tendrils of decay bind splintered thought<br/> Pieces of time coil around a hardened spine<br/> Reflections shatter into a warped visage<br/> In scattered truth, self disintegrates<br/> <br/> Eyes sealed, yet visions endure<br/> Subdued strains entwine within<br/> Chilling traces mark a surface left unscarred<br/> In realms of disarray, logic is cast aside<br/> <br/> Flesh dissipates into broken matter<br/> Merging with pallid dismay<br/> Air deserts the contour<br/> Swept away by erosion's quiet command<br/> <br/> Drifting through a shrouded abyss<br/> Where chaos unspools<br/> Splinters of what was once whole<br/> Buried in total disintegration
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Virtues calcified to dust<br/> Foundations crumble under whispered lies<br/> Each concession carves deeper wounds<br/> Into the architecture of integrity<br/> Compromise becomes oxygen<br/> Breathed until suffocation feels like growth<br/> Principles dissolve in acid rain<br/> Of rationalized surrender<br/> Surrender<br/> <br/> Values bleed into sand<br/> Conviction's skeleton bleached by synthetic light<br/> What stood firm now bends to breaking<br/> Moral spine twisted beyond recognition<br/> The feast begins with crumbs<br/> Ends with devouring mountains whole<br/> <br/> Corruption never announces arrival<br/> But leaves footprints in abandoned beliefs<br/> <br/> Corrosion crawls through sacred halls<br/> Silent cancer of the conscience<br/> Decay disguised as evolution<br/> The terminal disease of moral drift<br/> <br/> Boundaries fade like ancient maps<br/> Weathered by storms of small surrender<br/> The landscape unrecognizable<br/> When viewed through eroded eyes<br/> <br/> Terminal erosion<br/> Conscience silently rusting<br/> The slow dissection of resolve<br/> Completed atom by atom<br/> Corrosion crawls through sacred halls<br/> Silent cancer of the conscience<br/> Decay disguised as evolution<br/> The terminal disease
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Faded inscriptions on brittle stone<br/> Carved in veins, yet left unknown<br/> Fractured visions slip and wane<br/> Dissolving into hollow grain<br/> <br/> Torn awake<br/> By the whispering weight<br/> Reflections shifting<br/> Through the fractures of a hollow state<br/> <br/> Bind the void<br/> Suffocate the voice<br/> Erode the self's foundation<br/> Until the past is breaking<br/> <br/> The inevitable silence calls<br/> Unraveled threads in ruined halls<br/> At the edge of recollection, waits disintegration<br/> <br/> Flesh still warm, yet unknowing<br/> Flickering minds unsewing<br/> Fractured truths dissolve in dying light<br/> Falling through the cracks of time<br/> <br/> Torn awake<br/> By the whispering weight<br/> Reflections shifting<br/> Through the fractures of a hollow state<br/> <br/> Splintered voices in hollow breath<br/> Carved in walls, yet left unsaid<br/> Fading structures lost in dust<br/> Dissolved within the tide of rust<br/> <br/> The inevitable silence calls<br/> Unraveled threads in ruined halls<br/> At the edge of recollection, waits disintegration<br/> <br/> Flesh still warm, yet unknowing<br/> Flickering minds unsewing<br/> Fractured truths dissolve in dying light<br/> Falling through the cracks of time<br/> Falling through the cracks of time<br/> <br/> Raise the absence<br/> Bleeding from within<br/> Clutching the fading<br/> Summon the forgotten<br/> <br/> Fading into nothing<br/> Language slipping into dust<br/> Storming through the mind<br/> Empty winds will howl<br/> Faltering steps lead astray<br/> <br/> Devoured by void<br/> A river of absence consumes the way<br/> Tearing into the void<br/> Buried beneath the weight<br/> <br/> Drenched within the eulogy<br/> Mist erasing the shape<br/> Under the frozen moon<br/> Hearing the formless dirge<br/> <br/> Denying your own reflection<br/> Chained within an endless maze<br/> Lay me down<br/> Raise the thirst for dusk<br/> <br/> Fractured laws<br/> Reap the remnants of shattered trust<br/> Raise the absence<br/> Bleeding from within<br/> Clutching the fading<br/> <br/> Falling through the cracks of time<br/> Torn awake<br/> By the whispering weight<br/> Reflections shifting<br/> Through the fractures of a hollow state<br/> <br/> Forces unseen claim the remnants of a broken name
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Four walls breathing in the dark<br/> Counting cracks like counting stars<br/> Sleep's a stranger, dreams in disarray<br/> Reality bleeds into grey<br/> <br/> Days bleed into endless nights<br/> Phantom voices<br/> Every shadow holds a threat<br/> Every breath's a cold regret<br/> <br/> My reflection speaks in tongues<br/> Words like poison<br/> Isolation feeds the beast<br/> Never-ending feast<br/> <br/> Shattered glass and broken dreams<br/> Sanity tears apart<br/> When the darkness closes in<br/> Where does madness end and reason begin?<br/> <br/> Days bleed into endless nights<br/> Phantom voices<br/> Every shadow holds a threat<br/> Every breath's a cold regret<br/> <br/> My reflection speaks in tongues<br/> Words like poison<br/> Isolation feeds the beast<br/> Never-ending feast<br/> <br/> Hands shake like autumn leaves<br/> Consciousness deceives<br/> Time moves in circles<br/> Lost in the maze of my own sound<br/> The silence screams louder than the noise<br/> Killing my own voice<br/> <br/> Flesh feels foreign on these bones<br/> Living life in monotones<br/> Colors drain from everything<br/> Death's a song that shadows sing<br/> <br/> The world keeps spinning while I fall<br/> Through the cracks inside these walls<br/> Isolation builds its throne<br/> In a mind that's not my own
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026
Flesh of the valley, torn by iron teeth<br/> Wound upon wound, bleeds silicate grief<br/> Veins of ore sucked dry, collapsed to dust<br/> Maggots of industry gorge in rust<br/> <br/> Roots strangled in concrete ossuary<br/> Bark flayed, raw skin of the arboreal quarry<br/> Rivers, once serpents, gutter like slit throats<br/> Choked in chemical bile and plastic coats<br/> <br/> Acid fogs kiss cliffs to bone<br/> Face of the mountain gnawed to stone<br/> Ash rains down like moulting skin<br/> Feeding the loam with the wages of sin<br/> <br/> No elegy in the tremor of earth<br/> Only the thunder of stillborn birth<br/> Horizon festers with smokestack bloom<br/> Blight made god in nature's tomb<br/> <br/> Worms coil in soilless marrow<br/> Drinking deep from the tombstone furrow<br/> Blackened wings beat skies to bruise<br/> Sun weeps red through carbon noose<br/> <br/> Cold breath of machine sermons preaches<br/> Scorching the lungs of hills it reaches<br/> Erosion, not slow but surgical<br/> Stripped to the cartilage beneath the ice<br/> <br/> Scraped to nerve<br/> What none deserve<br/> In melted ice<br/> Slow and precise<br/> <br/> Bent to serve what none deserve<br/> Obsidian petals bloom from decay<br/> Garden where silence eradicates<br/> No pulse in the vine, no song in the glade<br/> Garden where silence eradicates<br/> <br/> Crust severs where glaciers once grieved<br/> Tears fossilize where roots disbelieved<br/> Tectonic joints crack under weightless greed<br/> A crown of smoke for the atom seed<br/> <br/> Crust severs where glaciers once grieved<br/> Tears fossilize where roots disbelieved<br/> Tectonic joints crack under weightless greed<br/> A crown of smoke for the atom seed<br/> <br/> Scraped to nerve<br/> What none deserve<br/> In melted ice<br/> Slow and precise<br/> <br/> Bent to serve what none deserve<br/> Obsidian petals bloom from decay<br/> Garden where silence eradicates<br/> No pulse in the vine, no song in the glade<br/> Garden where silence eradicates
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 05, 2026