Trisagion
How wise the God who trades his son for lesser men Who seek no temple, only avarice and permanence Judge not the heart, but thy devotion Keep those who remain As close to salvation as to destitution I can't explain what it means to be whole You took that virtue away from me A kingdom adorned with the thorns of thy idol Who scorn the breath of truth and reason We cannot pretend That the rules are the same For the blasphemer and thе saint, the blasphemer and thе saint We cannot pretend That the rules are the same For the commoner and the priest, the commoner and the priest The toils I've endured are so far beyond meaning There is no greater voice, only tenets and blood-stained stones Your archaism dies this day You are but the shadow of a lie Feeble and brittle like silence Bending the fear of earnest held faith You took the world from us From cracked and sullen hands As hope slipped through our fingers And sank beneath the sands And sank beneath the sands Fire sows the fire Wrath rends retribution Effigies casting shadows Likening tyrants to deities Befelling monuments To prove hence from this day What's written in stone Can crumble to dust To what end was I made this way If my nature is a transgression? To what end was I made this way If my nature is a transgression? To what end was I made this way If my nature is a transgression? To what end was I made this way If my nature is a transgression? I cannot build myself up again To watch myself fall apart at the seams I cannot walk if I'm destined to fall Through trials by design of cruelty and hate You are so frail You hide behind your fear Your faith is a mask for your insecurity And you wield it like a sword Summoning the flood, the call of the raging seas Apollyon's wake before the world We ache, we fear and we suffer for naught Undue and unjust is the the folly of Christ Transient echoes from a long lost era Cannot conceive my fate I suffer the want for a better world And the need for compassion in terrible times Great is my weakness to punish myself for A love forbidden by those who bore me Behind the weight of this cage of bones Is a heart that sinks at the sights of greed Of a Lord who damns his beloved creation For sins he determined his sons to commit I cannot pretend That I am the same As I once was As I once was If dreams lie in tatters And a soul knows no purpose What can I hope for? What can I live for? There was a time where I could forgive But I've lost so much I've lost so fucking much I hate that I hate As it brings me closer to you I am not what I am I am not what I am I am so lost in this place These vast surroundings compel me to dread As I sink within myself Forging an irrepassable path I can't regret what I feel is just I am one with the sword You held to me Reflection in the steel I am not what I am I am not what I am I am not what I am, forged and contorted I am not what I am, forged and contorted
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 29, 2026
I lost myself in fear of the unknown An enigmatic constant of a cold malignant form To rise within me as a rush of boiling blood I seethe at the sight of your face But it might as well be a mirror Unyielding... I cannot contend with the instinct to hate My fellow man for his nature Who are we to justify these means If the end is counting the dead? Within ourselves is the choice to love or hate To use one's faith as an impetus for scorn or a guiding hand To cast light with it or cast a solemn curse I chose to suffer Without form, without remorse We are alone I am not afraid to fall I am not my fears Humanity's weakness is a curse to carry with grace But it will not be my ruin Within ourselves is the choice to love or hate To use one's faith as an impetus for scorn or a guiding hand To cast light with it or cast a solemn curse I chose to rise We are one You are nothing We are one You are nothing We are one You are nothing Absolve yourself of your pain You are stronger than your oppressor Their insecurity Will be your triumph As the fire burns Creating smoldering ruins Bring righteous light Bring righteous hope Within ourselves is the choice to love or hate To use one's faith as an impetus for scorn or a guiding hand To cast light with it or cast a solemn curse I chose to stand Only the weak would let fear rule their hand Only the frail would hate their fellow man Without form, without sight, without light You govern mind and man In your discarnate form, your influence has guided hands To wield swords with wrath If I alone can see your futility Then you see it yourself I am stronger than I was years before From when I knelt before you
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 29, 2026
Movement I'm asleep in a fog that nothing can cut through The constant of time standing ever still Waters pristine, oar rippling stars An endless expanse, empyreal mirror What is this light piercing heaven's sky? I cannot see, I cannot see If only I knew what this weatherworn face would see I'd have set sail for another shore These seas tumultuous and merciless Those sent to guide me only drove me deeper into storms Beset into defeat, gripped by paralysis Pumelled by relentless rains Of doubt and despair, despite The weight of it all, I'm not sure if I felt it at all And as I sank like a stone I feared too much to ask of you To reach down and pull me in Or to turn away and let me go Leave me here, I'm the only one I trust Not to deepen these wounds Cast me adrift, I'm safer alone I can guide myself home, wherever that may be Leave me here, I'm the only one I trust Not to deepen these wounds Cast me adrift, I'm safer alone I can guide myself home, wherever that may be Why am I so numb to the terrors I've seen To the pains I've felt, to the fears I've known? Countless in number they are, they say they are my strength But each scar is a weight, pulling me further, each make me sink Forlorn visions of bygone times are lost in the swell Reality's rawness is lost to the daze, bring me sleep You are lost but I have found my own place In this maladjusted world we call our home I hid in the stars I conjured a world I made my escape You cannot hurt me here I longed for the same as you But I'm at peace now Whatever story they tell of me Through the lens of misjudgment Means nothing to me here With doors open wide, come find me
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 29, 2026
What answer do you have in sorrow's wake But to abandon all beheldest dear? Time ever longer in the coldest night Withdrawn behind my mind's enclosure It is kinder to accept one's nature Than to inflict unto others your poisons It is kinder to be destitute Without a light to carry through the fog If I held up a light, you would see me unravel before your eyes Embittered and distanced, embers barely holding the glow To tremble at thе thought of one more day Distant lanterns glow in thе mist Their warmth all but alien to my skin Longing fingers grasp at the golden glow But are soon pulled in from the burning heat Back to a chest as cold as a shadow Its familiarity a comfort as well as defeat Take what is lost, gather what's left astray Husk of a beating heart, clinging to a namesake Still are the waters that flow throw the veins Waiting for the warmth of a fire I keep far away Lucidity grants me with the certainty that this will pass But oh, so distant is the hour And far beyond reaching is the world I have undone This empty path bears not the answers that I seek There is no solace here There is no solace here Your distant warmth will return to me As soon as I let you in When the darkness lays down arms Bring light For mine wanes before the day
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 29, 2026