Images and Words

"Hold it now, wait a minute, c'mon!" Just let me catch my breath! I've heard the promises, I've seen the mistakes, I've had my fair share of tough breaks. I need a new voice, a new law, a new way, and take the time, reevaluate. It's time to pick up the pieces and go back to square one, I think it's time for a change. There is something that I feel to be something that is real. I feel the heat within my mind and craft new changes with my eyes. Giving freely wandering promises, a place with decisions I'll fashion, I won't waste another breath. You can feel the waves coming on, it's time to take the time. Let them destroy you or carry you on, it's time to take the time. You're fighting the weight of the world but no one can save you this time. Close your eyes, you can find all you need in your mind. The unbroken spirit, obscured and disquiet, finds clearness this trial demands. At the end of this day sighs an anxious relief for the fortune lies still in his hands. If there's pensive fear, a wasted year a man must learn to cope. If his obsession's real, suppression that he feels must turn to hope. Life is no more assuring than love, it's time to take the time. There are no answers from voices above, it's time to take the time. You're fighting the weight of the world but no one can save you this time. Close your eyes, you can find all you need in your mind. I close my eyes and feel the water rise around me, drown the beat of time and let my senses fall away. I can see much clearer now I'm blind! “Ora che ho perso la vista ci vedo di piu!” You can feel the waves coming on, it's time to take the time. Let them destroy you or carry you on, ut's time to take the time. You're fighting the weight of the world but no one can save you this time. Close your eyes, you can find all you need in your mind. Find all you need in your mind if you take the time. Find all you need in your mind if you take the time.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Morning comes too early and night time falls too late. Sometimes all I want to do is wait, the shadow I've been hiding in has fled from me today. I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye. But I will raise a shelter to the sky, and here beneath this star tonight I'll lie. She will slowly yield the light as I awaken from the longest night. Dreams are shaking, set sirens waking up tired eyes. With the light the memories all rush into his head. By a candle stands a mirror, of his heart and soul she dances. She was dancing through the night above his bed. Walking to the window, he throws the shutters out against the wall. From an ivory tower hears her call: "Let light surround you!" It's been a long, long time, he's had a while to think it over. In the end he only sees the change: Light to dark, dark to light. Light to dark, dark to light. Heaven must be more than this when angels waken with a kiss. Sacred hearts won't take the pain but mine will never be the same. He stands before the window, his shadow slowly fading from the wall. From an ivory tower hears her call: "Let the light surround you". Once lost but I was found, when I heard the stained glass shatter all around me. I sent the spirits tumbling down the hill, but I will hold this one on high above me still. She whispers words to clear my mind, I once could see but now at last I'm blind. I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye. But I had given all that I could take, and now I've only habits left to break. Tonight I'll still be lying here surrounded in all the light.

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

Tell me, remind me, chase the water racing from the sky. Always beside me, taste the memories running from my eyes. Nervous flashlights scan my dreams, liquid shadows silence their screams. I smile at the moon, chasing water from the sky. I argue with the clouds stealing beauty from my eyes. Outside the soundness of your mind bathing your soul in silver tears. Beneath a blackened summer sky praying for time to disappear. Beneath a summer sky, under the glass moonlight, night awaits the lamb's arrival. Liquid shadows crawl, silver teardrops fall. The bride subsides to her survival. By your hand I've awakened, bear this honor in my name. Outside the soundness of your mind bathing your soul in silver tears. Beneath a blackened summer sky praying for time to disappear.

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Standing by the window, eyes upon the moon. Hoping that the memory will leave her spirit soon. She shuts the doors and lights and lays her body on the bed. Where images and words are running deep. She has too much pride to pull the sheets above her head. So quietly she lays and waits for sleep. She stares at the ceiling and tries not to think, and pictures the chains she's been trying to link again. But the feeling is gone! Water can't cover her memory, and ashes can't answer her pain. God give me the power to take breath from a breeze and call life from a cold metal frame. In with the ashes or up with the smoke from the fire. With wings up in heaven or here, lying in bed, palm of her hand to my head. Now and forever curled in my heart and the heart of the world.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

There was no time for pain, no energy for anger. The sightlessness of hatred slips away. Walking through winter streets alone. He stops and take a breath with confidence and self control. I look at the world and see no understanding. I'm waiting to find some sense of strength. I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart to show me understanding. I need to live life like some people never will. So find me kindness, find me beauty, find me truth. When temptation brings me to my knees, and I lay here drained of strength. Show me kindness, show me beauty, show me truth. The way your heart sounds makes all the difference. It's what decides if you'll endure the pain that we all feel. The way your heart beats makes all the difference in learning to live. Here before me is my soul, I'm learning to live. I won't give up until I've no more to give. No more to give! Listening to the city, whispering its violence. I set out watching from above. The 90's bring new questions, new solutions to be found. I fell in love to be let down. Once again we dance in the crowd, at times a step away from a common fear that's all spread out, it won't listen to what you say. Once you're touched, you stand alone to face the bitter fight. Once I reached for love and now I reach for life. Another chance to lift my life, free the sensation in my heart, to ride the wings of dreams into changing horizons. It brings inner peace within my mind, as I'm lifted from where I've spilt my life. I hear an innocent voice, I hear kindness, beauty and truth. The way your heart sounds makes all the difference. It's what decides if you'll endure the pain that we all feel. The way your heart beats makes all the difference in learning to live. Spread before you is your soul, so forever hold the dreams within our hearts. Through nature's inflexible grace, I'm learning to live.

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025