Reverence
The frost melts away From here I can feel it Once again The sun gazes Only at me Burning so bright Raising my head At my visions edge Flowers bloom White and gold Still so cold They try to lift me up From just beyond my reach The sun gazes Only at me Burning so bright The sun gazes Only at me Never beside Hollowed out Becoming weightless Floating high above them Whose roots run deep I can feel it Once again While I depart They bloom
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Pulled beneath The rushing flow Coursed into The murk below And twisting down To see the wretchedness A fragile mask So thinly stretched Across its face To be so easily deceived Is the mark of easy prey Who finds virtue in despair And comfort in defeat Impossible to sense Where the passage ends Lightwards I go It bends and breaks It swirls and fades Glinting and gone Illuminating nothing To be so easily deceived Is the mark of easy prey Who finds virtue in despair And comfort in defeat From behind the mask It bares its jagged teeth It bends and breaks… It swirls and fades… But the barbs Are already in me I am entangled And enshrined A snare that was set for me Before I could understand Or perceive its hate
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Led by the neck to the water’s edge To drink from the pool of septic water Turned to black from the venom’s filth Eagerly drowned in fetid miasma Their collars tight around the throat A mark of willing servitude Perhaps this is what they’ve always wanted For their own black bile to suffocate Collapse, ascend Lungs brim with foul poison To retch forth Collapse, ascend A they’ve said A they’ve said Acrid black weeps from Corners of grinning maws Collapse, ascend A they’ve said A they’ve said Breathe profane echoed myths Distort renounce refrain Excise the mass of gnarled flesh And the frightful mesh comprised
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
There is a place I have seen Hidden far behind the glare One I have tried to forget With no way to enter or to leave There I still remain Rotten fragments left behind Scars that remain forever fresh Blemishes held with highest praise Dignify the oldest dreams Nothing to acclaim Heir without a name Who is this ghastly visage That lies before me? Sullen eyes and putrid heart Surely it cannot be What has become of me I feel the hands around my throat Cold fingers writhe into my heart There is no pain they can inflict Only haunting memory Digging so deeply into my flesh Nails tearing beneath my skin lashing against my frail heart Flaying its husk Laying it bare I feel nothing as it is pulled away It beats before my eyes I will go on without it I have left myself there Severed from self
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Filled with sorrow and regret Hollow and cold Breathing, watching… But there is nothing Behind their distant eyes That gaze through me And only bear witness To their own despair Wither in darkness Starved of light and sound Shallow breath drawn deep Or air filled with the stench Of their own decay Wither in darkness They reach out for us With frail hands like Sickly pale and lifeless Their final wretched act We turn away from them As they did from us As they did from the world For endless years We turn away fro them As they did from us
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
We march in emptiness We run Weathered by the incessant Beating of the sun By the wind’s careless passage throughout Hope’s promise cracks and fades away To age and wither on the vine Time passes on, so long, so long In the heat of the famine’s glare Days turn into months, into years The stones remain, fading grey To stay and suffer long, Watching it all wither away Wither away One day all of this will be a dismal memory So they say So they say We march in emptiness Everything we lost in prideful blame We run We hide We thrive We run We run in emptiness We run We hide in emptiness We hide We run in emptiness Everything we lost is here to shame
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026