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Stranded in this crowded room But while they'll leave, you'll still refuse Always lurking, waiting, watching on As your sick'ning presence wears my will 'til it breaks Depriving me of sleep, of joy, of sanity Never seen but always there I feel it breathing down my neck From across the room When all have washed their hands of me You'll stay true A loyalty I had never sought But one I'll never lose Please let me sleep Chilling air On my skin It pulls the fibres Taut to pluck Leave me be, leave me be Let me sleep, let me sleep I'll brave any tide in the ocean If, us both, its depths would claim I'll dive from the highest peak If it means you will plummet the same One day I will find peace Come what may I'll have peace I will find my peace

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

No matter where you are Stifling each waking breath Every step within my shadow A servility unwavering Fear dread all I've wrought Carved out of every thought Oppress shame, submission sustains We will rot Fear, guilt, shame, always Fear, guilt, shame, always I will consume you I will become you We will regress We are regret Second after punishing second Your disdain lingers I would break myself to be rid of you For a glimpse of reprieve Everything that you are is me You aren't to blame No one is at fault This is me Plead, beg, ache We are as one, in torment Plead, beg, ache A wound that weeps eternal I'll push deep the splinters of ego Draw a well to drown in your shame Fear as our blade, guilt as the stone A wound that weeps eternal I have consumed you I have become you We have regressed Live in regret Perish Fear guilt shame always

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I know the end awaits I'll be gone long before it Peace know this isn't me You know this isn't me Words turn to bile Disgust lingers on my tongue As I barely keep down Your saccharine poison This is not my home This is not a place I know I will traipse through mud and murk And escape to where? Someday I will forget everything And it's all you will remember We disappear into a fog That just won't seem to clear This isn't me This isn't me I never thought the letters of your name Would now escape me Or that I'd ever gaze upon my child a stranger I promise I won't forget you I promise I won't forget I promise I won't I promise I

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

A god of our hand closes in on us Dispel each facet 'fore it sows its seeds And digs its roots into our core Absorbing every drop of history To hasten its ascent Bowing under the heft of this concept Must I burden all with the fear that I hold? For our sake, must we halt 'Fore we face our scion? Is thought again to ruin? A question faced alone Have you even the choice to end this beast? Should you rid this beast? A deep seated fear, Once reserved for the divine Turned to our own cursed hands Seed is own

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

"March on, chosen sons, freedom calls for us!" Sang loud those refrains that greatness Dwelled within our wings and flowed through our veins A feeble mind, susceptible to all that it was granted Kinship was promised, realised Oh, how the joy spilled from my eyes Would I wring the blood from my heart To drown but one foe Oh how it feels - Oh how it seems - So surreal The joy that spilled from my eyes "March on, chosen sons, freedom calls for us!" These years condemned by histrory Still linger on inside of me I feel it was all a dream yet my eyes were open Did I once loathe those who would act with love? The peal of our thunder, the crash of our waves Once I was part of that chorus With fervour. I spit out my hatred and shame But my eyes remains dry their orders were "do not cry" Of all the good they took from us The worst of all. Our pity If power lies in verse Does once a hunger turn to horror? I boarded the ship in cheerfulness Gone are those happy hours I was born I was blessed There was god I was wrong I was wronged

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Suffer alone I found a hole, carved in a wall Narrow and jagged Cold iron bars holding its mouth agape And every time I wander by One image comes to mind That often brings to question my state You, bound, pale as new flesh Peering up through the stone Wondering which turn you took That led you so far from home From assets misplaced, bodies abused Kin cast aside, plaguing their minds With your promises of suicide The blood that we share fills me with shame While the holes that you dig fill you with pride Addict of plight Why must you sink your teeth Into every helping hand? I'll stare down as you beg For an end you won't receive And then I walk on with hope That you will die with none Suffer alone You will die with none

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Taking heed, we tried Losing ground with every step Lest we stray too far Toward the paths less worn I life my gaze from the trail Reaching for your absent hand To guide me through the briar Only to find you've left me behind To drift through the dust in your wake Blinking, choking, I'm breathing in the debris Discarded shell, abiding in the shadow On familiar ground A failure abhorred, an attitude taught Unbroken mold Thus, I am shunned Taught to fear, taught to doubt Through lack of trust In your flaws I see my own Glaring back I've no convictions to stand by I have no vestige to trace This wheel turns, never progressing It bears old marks of neglect Discarded shell on familiar ground This failure abhorred, an attitude taught Unbroken mold Thus, I am shunned Thus, you are shunned

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Life drifts by Seamless tides, once benign Do nought but torment and remind And although I may try To picture you on the other side Your grace remains just out of sight I'm denied The end is pure, unfettered silence No calm, nor chains. Regression to nothing The "knowing" that once helped me feel alive Fills me with spite for those who believe You're more than my memories While we're Stranded, helpless, abandoned Ripped from our norm the tranquil, the serene New waves threaten the precipice where I stand Searching for peace in that hateful abyss As my Life drifts away Where in science or spirit does solace reside? For I might leave both those shelters behind Would I sully your memory With a weary trudge from the shore? Am I ceding your bones to the brine To return to an empty shrine? Yet I'd stand at that mound Talk my own time away If you know there's no soul Should you cherish earth and bone? I see light up ahead Through the cracks in the pyre It will never reach you

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025