A Kindness Dealt in Venom

Dissociation, the familiar sinks to black A shroud of apathy around your capricious conceit of a life Self-dissection, rage in regression Wrenching purpose into a barren existence Lucidity from obstinance A short-sighted shift From nihilism to righteousness Meaningless reflection Despair of your own creation We'll rip it down The naivete, the false tragedy Lay salt on your life's old soil It's all coming down What makes you bleed What makes you breathe It's all coming down It's all coming down

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

I'm the beast behind your eyes And under your breath You've had your time Ride this inertia, grinding You're breaking, you're breaking down I will destroy everything you think you know You beg for catharsis To think the world isn't filth and indifference Beg to think you're not part of it The comfort you found in lies dims Self-deceit melts into a dire chorus Airing incessantly as church bells Desperation laid bare Pour your eager heart into deaf ears Gut-wrenching pleas Decades of turmoil, struggling to be decent, honorable, only to come out the other side having been too stupid to realize there was never any right answer. It was all for nothing. We have to make this a torturous affair Rid yourself of the life that's been perpetuated on you Your histrionic existence Is spittle flung in the face of raging death Breathless, lifeless life soaking in putrid ichor What flows through your veins? Fear of death, fear of life Violence in the abstract Life in all its fury You romanticize scars until you have enough of them to realize each one took a little piece of your life you'll never get back. You want a tragic life without enduring tragedy You don't have the creativity to hurt yourself the way I hurt you An existential confrontation You've been dreading your whole life Alone Unmourned Unloved Alone Unmourned Unloved Alone Unmourned Unloved Alone

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Actions destroy intent The misery of shallow words Swallow your screams And the bleating heart in your slowly sinking chest How long have I watched you falter I'm your crutch, you can't stand without me Crawl through your brief life On your knees Crawl Pull acrid tears from your eyes Wallow in the bile you spit Your life in my hands, now clenched fists Feel them hammer down You whimper rage Flaccid Futile Choke

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

You weren't born to suffer, you choose to suffer How frail, how trite this bitter passion To feel persecuted, oppressed, exiled A wave of guilt sprung to life, sheeting through veins Fire through tightened guts, shuddering A recognition of shame and regret The body revolts A fleeting caricature to the world Without meaning or consequence No one will notice your loss Your life's insignificance Creeping mental dissonance This crucible of cowardice To make a shift There's futility in your fury And a purer form of fear to be known Present yourself to empty gallows An attempt at martyrdom Nobody gives a shit about you Your thoughts, your life Try to find an inch of something you haven't ruined Try to fuck me and bury me Shifts in perception are shifts in truths You're a stain on this world The final tears of a saint You're the product of empty, rote expectations The weakness you see in others forces you to see your own Squeamishness courses through you as you see yourself for the first time You weren't able to crush your dreams before they crushed you

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

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Withdraw into delusion Dream Run from me Run as far as you can When you break down gasping for breath I will be there Waiting to devour Scream through darkened hallways Lunge for light that never gets closer Every grimy door leads to the same place Claw at the walls There's no escaping this shadow I am your constant dread I am you There's no distance between us you can create No avoiding this When your lungs are molten And your muscles detach from bone I'll swallow you up And we'll be right back where we started

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

A ceaseless march slowly breaks the will You never freed your mind, never grew Yours is just languishing and lament You weren't able to find a way to not need Awash in wave after wave of shame and scorn. Withering day by day, strand by strand. Come to me, sink to my level. Wrap my hands around your throat, the grip ever tighter, welcome the promise of death. You never made sense of things, never faced reality Oblivious to your frailty, the triviality of it all There's a profundity that's mockingly out of reach for you. Eyes glazed over, diminished, worn by time. What little control you exert over life has been wasted. The irony that you thought you deserved punishment was lost on you There is an inexorability to which we owe our totality, our futility. What you would frame as noble slouches when touched by death. Even a life of charity falters, stung by relentless inertia. Your life will culminate in a moment of silent, exquisite violence. A whimper, a wavering breath, stillness. I am the snake in the cradle.

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

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In modern times, the word epiphany has come to mean a revelation. A moment when the clouds part, a shaft of light falls from the heavens and the truth is revealed in full. This is a mistake. Epiphany is a veil, a piece of the waking world twisted to hide the deeper truth. To protect us from things our weak minds cannot grasp, because to seek truth in full is to be destroyed.

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

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