Thanatopsis

He knows he is forgotten Left to footsteps in the rain His tethers to the world flimsy at best Meaningless details ushered him to shore The wait is long for the passage beyond His guide will come in his own time Clinging to life as his flesh decays, time slows Day in and day out and day in and…pain The wait is long for the passage beyond Why choose this path? Meaningless suffering in place of a meaningful life The sound of insects A weakened soul The longest path Set by his own hand “You have been long preparing your way Observing each step that leads you to shore But as you must know, these waters are slow The wait is long for the passage beyond”

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Burned Burned Our last great monument The works of mankind revered by ghosts The works of mankind cursed by hollow men A casket of Earth, a shroud of sky Our fathers built us a mighty grave Death was chosen for us And death surrounds us A skeleton tree, a winter of ashes Spectral songs of hatred in the air Death was chosen for them And death surrounds them For all the fleeting whims of man, I have learned nothing Though choking on a world of dust, I have learned nothing The corpse of our Mother shrieks on the wind “Take this bitter end that you have given me” The corpse of his mother haunts my memory “There was no saving me, and there is no saving him Take this bitter end, for there is nothing else” “My dear friend, you have toiled far too long That unforgiving road holds you but a breath away There is no life in your long and weary march Rest your tired bones where we have spoken in dreams”

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Heat Agonizing heat Fortune smiled on the vanished, those erased from existence Shadows of humanity begging for a name, they never glimpsed the blackened day Heat Agonizing death A sickening dawn turns day to night A night born in hell that lingers still Skin drips from outstretched hands Begging for relief or reason Black rain mocks their dry mouths The very air they breathe is poison Those left here plead for Death “Find us here, take us home” Those left here plead for Death The river is silent Flesh and fire Broken humans Spreading sickness The world is changed Upon a foundation of unwilling flesh We built a shrine to death A tower of smoke and fire Our last great monument Scorched earth Burnt flesh Suffering and hatred Shroud their world in hellfire What can life be in a landscape of death? There is no life after this “You thirst for me again, seeking ways to call my name I am pleased with your devotion The shrieking of these unfound hordes beckons me As you all one day will too"

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Awaken observer, is this your life? Shrouded in darkness, a fallen light Born of a new age without a name Mindless existence for all who remain Awaken observer, what is your life? Haunting self doubt with each breath Today is the day What will be tomorrow? A dying world growing colder with time 3 suns rose today To live among the stars Of gods and men, which will you follow? Yellow eyes, colors shift in a growing vision I question all of who I am and what I know I seek a new path I seek my own life Beneath a fading sky I will choose to become more A world of color, bathed in light A haloed path beside the sun (3:31 Break) “Plucked from obscurity to lead; follow no more” “Change the world and free myself from the shackles” “I have chosen wisely” “I overcame my destiny” “What a gift to believe” “What beauty to receive” I have found, I am at peace I awake in nothing and cannot find my place An ancient feeling taking hold within this void Surrender to the fading memory and see the Growing distance between what is and never was Contort, distort, redshift, and a pale blue Beneath a fading sky The fear becomes so real A void of darkness, absent of life How can this be? You are nothing but a mistake The promised land is but a dream You chose poorly, worshipping stars Now you suffer from beyond

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

I see your path, I’ve walked it myself You’re carried on the wind You’re led to nowhere A world once stood where daylight fails A world of waste, a world undone The end was here where ruin prevailed The end of thought, the end of hope The dark would take what had no place The dark that kept, the dark that knew Complete and gone without a trace Complete for them, complete until... When light broke through And the end failed Judgment stood its terrible ground They were gone Gone were the walls that held the dark Gone was waste that made the world You would have been home I see your path, I’ve walked it too If it’s hope you seek, there’s none Although the daylight had broken through No battle here was won When the world was taken away A void, a nothing took its place If it’s hope you seek there’s none

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Swarm A new crown emerges The rattle of bones A timeless venture To find a home A sacrifice for the colony Rebirth in destruction Breath in the end and wait She waits in darkness The host’s last sleep Taking life from the source Growing death with each breath Breathing, bleeding, feeding Breeding, bleeding, seething Tear away this broken limb In its place, a rigid skin Heart of rock and dusty veins Fading thoughts from a dying brain Frozen, catatonic This armor offers no protection Bone, flesh of stone Buried alive in this cocoon Puncture, watch it bleed Shifting eyes of misery Tear away this broken limb In its place, a rigid skin Heart of rock and dusty veins Fading thoughts from a dying brain Bone hive Encased in what was my body This shell of a human prison Shallow breathing, strengthens the hive I feel the end within myself Splintered, ripping at my insides New life, reborn from my demise I will return to nature I will become the earth Bone hive

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

I sit and stare No sleep from which to wake There is no day or night I sit and rot I am no stranger to Bending reality But no clever story could prepare me For the way it’s crumbled I remember the first time that time slipped away Hours lost to the old man’s words Time means nothing now Time means nothing now Another ghost has come and gone My door, the great yawning beast Waiting, waiting like the house In a broken voice I learned of my fear (waiting, mocking) The walls tremble as all is confirmed (closing, suffocating) Through the mouth of the monster Across the old man’s map I have found nothing This was not for me I still get nightmares

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Where am I? Gone, lost to another world How can a man behold such knowledge? Yet I know nothing of this burden Only that this curse will be my death A handful of relief Worlds’ weight in misery Gone, lost to another world How can a man behold such knowledge? Alone, I sit and wait “Back so soon?” Shrouded in darkness, he’s waiting and watching Sinister and smiling, what does he desire? My hideous curse, my only hope Trapped in this blackness that’s thickened by fear Stumbling blindly in hopes of escape Light, hope, could this be my way out? It grows It grows It grows still brighter Burning light, searing pain Shift Shrieks grinding inside my head Here our filthy hands mean death They remember my hunger for their flesh Dried corpses and flickering lights What hideous design is this? Ferried through the endless void What hideous design is this? Darkness casts a spell upon these wretched carcasses Haunting my movements, mocking me with what I’ll never have My family of corpses Shift Please let me stay here I want a home Why did I have to go? Please take me back Please

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025