Shadows

You shall die so many times before you perish Surrounded by living, self indulging mirrors Digesting temptation's stolen fruit Moving on self-fulfilling circles Personality hanged on a rope called capitalism Organism breathing a life of false ecstasy You shall die so many times before you perish Consuming the fruits of ill virtue You shall die so many times before you perish Personifying the sickening nature of man's lechery Lusting society's forbidden fruit Loving in uncaring detachment Creativity sacrificed to a world of conventions Hedonism existing in a maelstrom of lies You shall die so many times before you perish Consuming the fruits of ill virtue

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

A dream become a creed, a want become a need A serenade for the tragic A lover self confessed, a circle truly blessed Emotional hegemony Sanity on a shoestring, a tripwire tragedy Oscillation between extremes Of agonizing sublimity and sublime agony Skirting reality with holistic perceptions Absorption of truths Wanted as evidence and evidently unwanted A dream become a creed, a want become a need A serenade for the tragic A lover self confessed, a circle truly blessed Emotional hegemony An unprotected sensitivity, a capacity to drink poisons Gladly court oblivion By loving with death and dying to love Desires pursued to their bloody ends And compulsive denial Of unpopular possibilities and unasked for reality

I'm seeing the parts in me That which I hate to see Suffer the shadows Suffer the shadows The child inside weeps for my life For such bitter twisted dreams The fool by her side could never see lies Any economy of truth he believed Blind to compassion I shall suffer the shadows of my past Depressed and saddened I shall pay my debt to nature I'm seeing the parts in me That which I hate to see Suffer the shadows Suffer the shadows I'm seeing the parts in me That which I hate to see Suffer the shadows Suffer the shadows The mother inside feels my sadness and pain In this drowning pool of desire The father by her side could never have cared Cold blooded he lived as a liar Blind to compassion I shall suffer the shadows of my past Depressed and saddened I shall pay my debt to nature I'm seeing the parts in me That which I hate to see Suffer the shadows Suffer the shadows

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Severed from unhealthy mythomania I lay to rest the ghosts of past seductions Leaving false paradises unfathered I sing swan songs for stability No quarter for facade, falsity shall go the way of all flesh The way of all flesh, of all flesh Desiring life from my emotional mortality I lick the wounds of sexual openings Becoming spiritual and libidinal I breathe life into this union taking flesh At one with the clean breasts of sensory delight I endear myself to this mutual growth Leaving feelings of restraint unmothered I plunge into meta-sensitivity No quarter for facade, denial shall go the way of all flesh The way of all flesh, of all flesh Pistols at dawn for my pseudo sanity I flit unfettered through an erotic fantasy Becoming luminous and emotive I understand all seven heavens No quarter for facade, loneliness shall go the way of all flesh The way of all flesh, of all flesh

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Utterance of a word to give form To give being all Corrupted by aeons of interpretation Misinterpretation by all No longer a path back to that which once was Now a suicidal game of chinese whispers with God The word mutated: a phrase of fallacy The phrase a law that rules our lives: insanity Assimilate myriad delusions Seek the whispered word Behind the roars of ignorance Seek the path back to that which once was No more futile fumblings for a misunderstood God

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune For wantonness knows no law And corporations have neither bodies to be punished Nor souls to be damned The road to oblivion is paved with good intentions And work incentives In the world of the blind The one eyed man makes corporations Corporations leaving sickness Which can't be cured, which must be endured One funeral brings many in civilised society A society soon ripe, soon rotten A guilty conscience needs no accuser But silence is mistaken for consent and to err is human Drive out nature with a pitchfork and she'll neither come back Nor breathe for us again The road of oblivion is paved with good intentions And momentary lapses of reason One funeral brings many in civilised society A society soon ripe, soon rotten

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Internal descent down every ladder in existence Lie naked with the dragon - no interest in resistance To give myself vision where I was blind I trip the trigger and detonate my mind Fragmented memories and kaleidoscopic visions Reality is mutable and open to revision Seek the superconscious, become one with the All Immerse myself in the ocean of my soul Gather the shattered remains of thoughts I thought mattered Redefine my world Debris is scattered, a fleeting glimpse of the hereafter Liberates my soul Lost in myself, alone I stand Searching for a death of moments Divine and mundane reconciled, I live The world realigns and begins to take form Breathless and weak yet alive, reborn Experiment or experience? Rejoice or regret? Only one way to know as I take my first steps Gather the shattered remains of thoughts I thought mattered Redefine my world Debris is scattered, a fleeting glimpse of the hereafter Liberates my soul

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Picture a man with his life in his hands Consumed by the death of his dreams Clutching at straws, he dreams no more A desolate figure, I am he My agony fuelled by the shadows I ruled I hide from the world in the dark Outwardly sane, I conceal my pain Life's touch cold steel in my heart Wanting, fearing, facing life alone I'm not hearing your reasons, so leave me alone I'm on the brink of insanity, I think Consumed by flames of desire The two-faced divinity a victim of tragedy The flames now its funeral pyre But the dream still walks and the divinity talks I'm facing it day by day Each glimpse a hell I've come to know so well See the idealist pay Wanting, fearing, facing life alone I'm not hearing your reasons, so leave me alone Assaulted by the day, my inner world's grey - desolation I'll take what I can though I hate what I am - abomination Alcoholic retreat instead of facing defeat - rejection Narcotic escape before it's too late - deception I've invested my soul in achieving this goal Made pacts, sworn oaths, taken vows I never realised each pact has two sides What hope for my soul now? We're both still here, one light, one dark Though the cyclone now lies dead So let's both dream of things we won't see Of words that will never be said Wanting, fearing, facing life alone I'm not hearing your reasons, so leave me alone

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025