Where Gods Live and Men Die

Climbing Always moving Never resting My task My will As I look back beyond this icy place of Death A distant echo from a time that went away Those green lands are behind That place of sun and laugh The innocence that was All gone Envenomed This curse inside Black poison through my veins The kiss of hell with every breath No cure in sight In the land of child's illusion I left one night without goodbyes The flower of evil's thorn condemned me To die many times before death Invisible wounds and missing answers Dictating all of my days Conviction became my inner compass To wisdom, the light on my way Upwards, I travel to the summit Inside, the mirroring quest The lightning cracks the sky As winter's power rise No way of turning back All gone Envenomed This curse inside Black poison through my veins The kiss of hell with every breath No cure in sight In the land of child's illusion I left one night without goodbyes At the mountain top I must speak the secret words And the ancient doors will dissolve and let me in Where the Gods will stand to hail honor and courage or to punish arrogance and sentencing to oblivion Focus gets harder with each day The venom inside spread its claws Piercing and ripping the good in me Blinding my eyes from within Darkened but pale This curse inside Black poison through my veins The kiss of hell with every breath No cure in sight In the land of child's illusion I left one night without goodbyes I left THAT night without goodbyes.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

I tried to live but not to leave yet, every time I failed I grew myself to scout the lands Away from those I cared Became a creature of the night Befriending words and mysteries Arcane treasures yet to be found But through the sleeping hours Those fingers made of tar Chasing me as prey The hands of fate My breath's their desire Around my neck I bear the hangman's rope There's no escape Forcing me to fight harder On inner fields There's a beast I must destroy The blizzards wake me up The ember's fire's gone But dreams remain as every wicked night Freezing and alone My throat is weary and sore Too many years of silent battles Now through whiteness I must walk Create a path where there was none Arcane knowledge At my command No! Hands of fate My breath's their desire Around my neck I bear the hangman's rope There's no escape Forcing me to fight harder On inner fields There's a beast I must destroy Distant memories of a past life I know I once had A life that ceased to be A poisoned dart At the leper's rotting hand But in the coldness of my quest the strength to keep on searching for a cure And When I reach those distant halls all the meanings will reveal Lead into Gold. Sacrifice. Stormy weather Mystical visions I can't tell what is real Thunders screaming Serpents climbing To the crown on my head Growing snow slide Burying matter Sulfur, salt, mercury Prison chamber below zero Trapping me from within Is this my journey's end? The answer to my search?

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

At this glacier's core I wonder The avalanche through myself Happened days or years ago? Breaking spirit hibernation Inside initium's cave Frozen doorsteps to the maze "Be welcome inside" The Labyrinth says "The key you will find" Now here the distant call Across the dripping caverns a warning from the depths A voice that whispered long ago wild and pure and dead Facing my fears As I walk towards the host stepstones made of pain Even visionless and groping Crystal clear I can now see The fractals of my life "Go further inside" The Labyrinth says "The key you will find" Now here the distant call Across the dripping caverns a warning from the depths A voice that whispered long ago wild and pure and dead Now here the distant calls From beyond the grave Some voices whispered long ago wild and pure and dead Falling and sliding from the stairs Falling and Sliding I see the breeze moves the oak leaves in springtime and my reflection on the lake, as a child A mother's voice and the promise to endure With broken bones I awake in the alluvium A cloak of snow over these frostbitten limbs Crawling out in the cold mud and branches Understanding what I learned to survive To transcend ...I summon inner fires These remains ...Become Thumos ingrown Gaining strength from the mission inside me: Standing proud before the throne of the Gods Now here the distant call Across the dripping caverns The teaching from the depths The voice that whispered long ago wild and pure, was me Now here the distant call From an open grave Some voices whispered long ago And all of them, were me

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Reaching Citrinita's summit at least Where the sunshine is bright but colder Flushing clouds dyeing towers and domes in a golden splendor By the gateway the cyclopean guard Burning eyes with a sword and a question Aqua Regia he drinks from the skulls of the ones who failed Secret words are the key to the castle If I Err I'll be slain on the doorway Pointing gauntlet and colossal armor ...Rise "Draw me your sigil and show that you dare!" My fingers, they dance in the air Creating a sign of my thoughts At the gaze of this magic portent the colossus spoke to me: "So, you are brave enough to face damnation" "Are you sure you will speak the answer? Others tried and lost their heads Do you trust yourself enough to challenge my blade?" "Think about this pilgrim: how you traveled to this magical place, with poisoned entrails and no food or water?" "how your bones were fired in winter hiking up through deadly stones?" Without a sound he asked me: "What is lying?" Then I comprehend... The pages in white, faces of Death. What is lying is me and my blindness What is lying this dead frozen body I'm a ghost who pretended a purpose ...And realize Tombless I've lied under seasons of sleet My flesh long buried in ice A lying truth to be told Then the unexpected happened Genuflection, reverence The bowing Titan spoke ..."be welcome master" Timeless gates are disappearing Ancient scripts and tomes at sight From immortal thrones I hear their greeting voices "Every God, a lonely pilgrim with a painful search like you had. Unbroken souls aren't meant to reach this summit" "Like a sword that faces the anvil And resists the hammerblow, Inside this palace you can stay" "forever."

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025