The Calm That Was the Storm

It seemed the sky must wither The seas disperse, galaxies unfurl My form, insensate, relinquish breath Amidst noise and shattering earth But no violence, not even a stir Merely reflection of flickering light In your still, unwavering gaze Marked the hour of goodbye It was in silence you revealed most It was in saying nothing you said it all The silence said it all Sorry for not mirroring your calm The inconvenience, the burden of guilt For feeling the sting within the Faint praise with which you damned me I envy you such detachment Your mute faith that better awaits The sanguine ease of your stride as, So quietly, you just walked away It was in silence you revealed most It was in saying nothing you said it all The silence said it all So say you felt just one regret Say you shed one drop of brine Please say one instinct yearned to scream Into a silence thick with words I could not bear to hear

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 23, 2025

As one we will embrace the dusk Of times we all lament For every aspiration lost And every fortune spent Such hellish thoughts relinquished In the nightmares heaven sent Reflecting on the obsolescent Moments that we gauge Embody what is life Is just the stigma of an age A monkey is the king Of every kingdom in a cage Exquisite is the maya That pervades in every way As life, the subtle prelude To a posthumous display Embraces like a lover, as a thief It walks away As babes we thread dimensions Of an aged infinity From a past bereft of vision To the darkness do we flee The monkey may be caged but tell me Which of us is free?

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 23, 2025

I had to face you again I had to taste you once more Alone I had to hit that wall With you as my mentor And watch my wretched flesh rot Inhaling the stench of regret Feeling life stripped from my vertebrae Free in my toxin vortex Peak hour Sewer side I had to face you again I had to taste you once more Alone I had to hit that wall With you as my mentor Rising from the bile of today I refrain from that touch Knowing I'll still feel you tomorrow

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 23, 2025

The change is made within an innocent breath A veil around an existence Accursed with a solitary death Dancing a line of unending decline Over chasms I knew not to be A wave of emotions 'pon desolate oceans That drown in a lust to be free Though birds may sing it is oft unsure Does the joy of life from their spirits stem? To grace the skies yet shy away From the eyes that most adore them All that is hurt and all that is loved are one Does the blood on these hands Now dry in the heat of the sun? Admist a sea of tranquility Must I writhe on a desperate shore? A spirit and mind no longer aligned With an honour I cannot restore Guilt shall feed the nightmares That I slumber with this eve Tomorrow I must walk among the shame How sad it is, a mind that Harboured such control and pride Is now the sickened brethren of the lame

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 23, 2025

It seemed the sky must wither The seas disperse, galaxies unfurl My form, insensate, relinquish breath Amidst noise and shattering earth But no violence, not even a stir Merely reflection of flickering light In your still, unwavering gaze Marked the hour of goodbye It was in silence you revealed most It was in saying nothing you said it all The silence said it all Sorry for not mirroring your calm The inconvenience, the burden of guilt For feeling the sting within the Faint praise with which you damned me I envy you such detachment Your mute faith that better awaits The sanguine ease of your stride as So quietly, you just walked away It was in silence you revealed most It was in saying nothing you said it all The silence said it all So say you felt just one regret Say you shed one drop of brine Please say one instinct yearned to scream Into a silence thick with words I could not bear to hear

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Feb 06, 2026