Decompositions, Volume Number One

Hanging in the balance Between the pauses of the second hand So long awake... IN WAIT (Four colours cloud the sky) IN WAIT (Red rivers dripping dry) Our bottomless well of wishes, drained Igniting in the vacuum Between the friction and the everlasting flame Lifetimes amass, dormant... I WAIT (Backlit volcanic shore) I WAIT (Five pointed star is born) As it is in the Void, so it is under my skin Posing in prayer on the South Rim Shrouding the ridgeline in Softness Finding peace where Endings begin Premonitions Of a quickening pace At the rock face Brushing with broader streaks Treat the symptom Of a paradigm shifting No lantern burns long In this cavity Flickering In and out of Becoming TOTEM EMERGING Tied In the mind's eye Pendulum is pacing Blind In the psyche Sliding scale of belief Is tipping Transmutations Prefaced by the signal fires Intuition Scrivened pigment and clay Past lives play out at each stage In this gallery Wavering Archetypes intervening On the walls of a hand painted cave I confess You are a stunning mess- Unbetrothed to a single spectrum I digress No vow of permanence Has a deep-rooted hold On its host- Mycelial Massacre Gnawing away (They're gnawing away) These tracks I laid And the praise it was fraudulent Nothing sacred in my fingerprints Shed my skin as a parting gift SLASH AND BURN, and start again Through the lens of predation Monochrome interpretations Only fit for the color-starved Strip-mine my flesh, I WILL ASCEND At a cut throat crawl Traverse the grounds of decay At a cut throat crawl To erode at a glacial pace Trance-formations Sawtooth waves of transition I regress Hypnotic dissonance- Every lie that I told Is a ghost- Residual Apertures Haunting the frame (They're haunting the frame) Sequential fates Massacred Gnawing away (They're gnawing away) Legacies waste SIGNALING FIRE SIGNALING FLAME Illuminate the Way In this world of wounds Transcend with hands in the earth In this world of wounds To amend with hands in the dirt Off course in the crooked rain Always chasing a distant flame (At a glacial pace) Untwine yet another braid Clutch this tangled cord In this world of wounds We can heal with hands in the earth In this world of wounds Climb forevermore EVerandeverandEVERandeverandevER (balance can never be restored...) "Sorrowing, Sighing, Bleeding and Dying" New hymnals sound from the mouth of a cave (...will never be restored) The chosen betrayed us, worshipful conquest Healers in ash at the foot of a stake Wild waters forgotten In violent eruption OUR TOTEM EMERGES Field and fountain Moor and mountain WAITING... For the Sign

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 26, 2026

(All awash in Scarlet rising Bloodbath birth marking A passing age) Adoration For the elder gods Was a closing chapter Now the sky Is a vacant throne Apparitions Patterns we projected Shake me out of slumber Pull me back To the deep unknown TO DECODE: Inscriptions On the inner circle Interwoven spirals Signaling We're not alone (All awash in Scarlet rising Bloodbath birth marking We're not alone) So, pin me down To your vast embroidered web By witchery, self was conceived... I made a bride of the moonlight Endured refusal for a thousand lives She guided me through the temporal streams In turn, how I would disgrace thee We made a shrine of this mountainside Built our blood from its root and vine A sylvan ashram to shelter me In turn, how I would betray thee I made communion with a hungry wind It lapped the salt from my calloused skin And I know, I was warned not to fall for the meek In turn, it preys on me Take cover Never saw it coming (Cover) Touching down Where pressure points meet Timelines diverging At the Trailhead of Eternity Take shelter Never saw it coming (Shelter) Breaking ground Where four corners meet Ley-lines converging At the Gatepost of Infinity ...form was perceived... No present tense No middle mixture gradients No tender hex Through and Through The Future Past Through and Through Just the gnashing of teeth (Passing Through) Just the wedding of two extremes Just my own failing grip (Passing Through) Losing feeling in my fingertips Overlooking a scene from the slaughter Of Innocence My alternate Selves strain and fracture Undertaking a rite on the altar Of Experience No deviant Virtues recovered Sculpting my death mask From living rock / kcor gnivil morF Shielding my true face From the Other... Letting go to grasp The paradox / xodarap ehT Contrary logic pervades... Passing Through The Looking Glass Passing Through Overlooking the slaughter Suspended in time Staring out from the amber Overlooking a scene from the slaughter RITUALIZE THE COLLAPSE Through and Through The Future Past Through and Through (...all awash in, scarlet rising...)

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 26, 2026

I'll depart, when the lights overhead have all but one burnt out In a slow procession dragging every shadow, every doubt What pioneers precede me? Cloven footprints left behind On a land base cut so clear, white trails blazed across the skies Some spin wild in praise, most just need to save ourselves A people out of time, who have lost the will to howl From four legs Fortnights Withhold the rest begged of weary eyes What rot-refusing cemetery Pines for all our kind? Teach me to scream In volatile whispers (SIGNALING FIRE) Teach me to wake inside your dream and stay forever (SIGNALING FLAME) I could wage your wars I could cast your spells I could preach your meaning (SIGNALING FIRE) Teach me the notes to sing Your vengeance into being... From two wings On high Patterned flight ignites an ink-blot sky What fearful blackened symmetry Reflects our soul's design? This is no place for the noble or young Born with the taste of blood on our tongues TO FORGET / TO FORGIVE With a hatchet buried deep (Under Lapsing Time) Illumination lost its bearing Eliminated light: Left her bereaved Kaleidoscopic grief Tightening its noose Now decoherent speech Is all that rings as true Force your words through the gale Of circling fan blades Just to hear another voice... Resonate God awful proof Crying out Paralyzed Poisoned heart still beating Short of breath Love lies bleeding Purified Cauldron over-boiling Vine of souls Serpent uncoiling EVER UNFOLD Trapped and tamed in this Thinning wilderness Just skin and bone We dared To let the demons in Motion sickness setting in Crystal waters darkening Hair raised on our necks... We drew Our breath Out of the thick air Deviate Wandering kiss Co-create Seething abyss (Re)integrate Exiled arts Bi-locate Tear us apart So long, eternal youth- Bare feet and empty hands I'm off to find the Truth In this pathless land To command My nightmare "Speak your name" (in vain) Regards, untimely death- The urge to understand Merely a lapsing crest Bound for the sand If I should stray And disappear I fear what quantum scaffolding would be revealed And If only I knew At creations end the fog would lift and clear Unveiling: Silent Sovereignty Surfacing Pulverized Wounded heart stops beating Between lives Patterns repeating In verses To sing The Seeds Of Rebirth TO BE SEWED: In chorus To sing Sing of hope Upwind, a budding Spring Parallel Galaxies of light Synchronize Tattered edges overlap Downstream, the Nettle's sting Winding down Vortices of time Narrowing Tired movements come to pass In violent symphonies Let us sing it into being The ancient corridors Are closing Our hexagonal hives Collapsing The antique pathways Corroding Our holographic lives Enfolding on themselves Shudder in the quake Of pending Eschatons Hatchet buried deep With a paradise we lost FORGIVEN / FORGOTTEN Drafting my swan song

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 26, 2026

Long of tooth Many rings now in tow Return Another cycle brought to its close Grant the heavens thirty years To make good on their word Bow your head now, in surrender Saturn Return Devoured Descendents Rivers Flow Currents damned will never veer Devoured Descendents Elders Grow Branches shorn shall never bear The burden of the seer For sight is both a blessing And a curse To resurrect the trickster's song We declare the Arrowhead as Epilogue Raven Arise From what was lost Explorations in decay: At this altitude of the unwell Moral compass spins Like a spiral staircase This union is forbidden, Love Two-spirited embodiment of One Open windows Tangled antlers Crossing over Through the caverns Seeking answers On the record this is REGRET Passages in progress Pass for memories For the record this is CONTACT All my words fail When we meet in dreams Off the record you were LAUGHING In the crashing waves Gone with the tides Wading out to the sea May those crooked spears of light guide you home May you carry no more crushing weight A soul displaced From its herd of white buffalo Return... Return to the source Awaken... Awake from this dream Wake from this dream Explorations in decay Inthisdatastreamdelerium Themethodisthemaze Its just the fingertips on a photograph A wrong turn off the branching path Give me station Some awareness In this static aftermath Rising from the ashes Out of the empty halls of vacuity Caesurea breaks Dreamer awake Adrift in revery (Awake) Sleepwalking effigies As it is in my blood So it is in the Night Sea Growing in the silence Within the womb of a long expectant pause Timely demise New worlds arise Water gives way to fire (Arise) Nature's enduring choir We must turn the old leaf That we may pen a new page Burning offerings for a dying age

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 26, 2026

I used to waste my skin, shed my time, change my colors, until I settled for black and white. I used to waste my skin, shed my time, change my colors, until I settled... In circular dance We call down the craft Face the end "Gods arrive On the wings of the wind Fade to black How the mighty descend Gods arrive On the wings of the wind Fade to black" So it begins... Out of body Torn out of time Diseased Centers align Revelations Storm cloud swept signs Whirlwind revolutions Drifting by At ease Within decline Out of body Torn out of time Grace redefined Elliptical Trance Flared prominence Magnetic draft Face the end... The future can't sleep It doesn't need to It dreams standing up like the statues In the gardens we'll pass through- Past the guardians at the gatepost The Light: how it gives and it takes Pitch black, the poles lost their grip Let the axis reverse- Precious balance of mind now disturbed... This world, it slips and tears And if the smoke ever clears Will the southern skies now host The Northern Lights? Let's make pretend: "It was all a delusion It's all in your head It was all an illusion Like gold out of lead." The present can't see It is blind but has visions Of pillage and pilgrimage The purging of empires- Tyrants, their treasonous wars... Then without warning its done A clean slate just feels like a dead weight The burdens of surface stone Scrapes skin from bones As we crawled across dark parking lots Felt the forest floor cringe... And let the cities cave in The past lost its voice It can't speak but was spoken for By pundit and prophet... Until the dust clouds around us Eroded our embellished belief In some fixed history Could we recognize Symbols made of smoke? Across the canopy That soft-spoken sky Burnt by the torchlight As we chart out the ley-line Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard As we followed the fault lines Devoured, digested, cast out... Decomposed "Gods arrive Line of dark chariots Starlight dies I can't bury it yet Wheels of fire Swing they so low Fade to black Carry us home" Polaris slips her tongue Through a kiss made out of cinders In a marriage of chemicals The sky's sulphur heart Carved-out veins of slate The pulse of the earth- How it sinks and it slows An oil corn and wine coated keystone The archway, two columns (now ash and dust) Frame this path for us The undeserved- Brought low and unpreserved From this unhallowed gaze, we profane; The cursed abandon the weak To stagger on in a stolen display Of confusion, of faith The North Star, she nods out Doused her torch, left us forever Without promise or penance We're left to merge with the trench Taught the cruelties that it takes to survive "Just accept to be free." I used to waste my skin Shed my time, change my colors Until I settled for peace... In death, an emerald sea stands before me Unveiled but unbowed- Each wave's a rainbow of sound Could we recognize Any signal in the noise? Across that static sea O, crestfallen sky Yearn for the currents That carved out the ley-line Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard As we followed the fault line Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines Pray the earth it won't break one more time All the voices we heard as we followed the fault lines Devour, break down and black out... Decompose

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 26, 2026