A Darkness Remembered

The light that burns within Is the key to life In all mankind Though how will it last? An answer that they Could never find A flame once strong Flickers in the breeze Life as we know will end Freeing the earth of disease They fall away Like the leaves of a dying tree The flame of life will come To be but a dream A faint glimmer of hope Will still exist in time But will fade away With the dying light The earth will uncreate Handing man its own fate With the fall of this race The earth becomes A peaceful place…

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Why can’t they See the dark Inside of me Deep within me… They expect me To put on a smiling face They want me happy But I can’t lie As I wipe away the tears That stream down my face The beauty they see In this atrocious world Has forgotten me in this life I enjoy the misery That breeds inside me Please tell me why… Happiness is a cruel myth It eludes me every time Creating a void in my life Even just the thought of love Is fantasy in this day and age Nowhere left for me to hide From this self-inflicted rage Sleep, my only escape From this pain As I live inside a dream Or so it seems A perfect world That never will exist again This torment deep inside Won’t end My life in ruins, I can’t pretend Darkness shrouds my every move My mind is all that’s left to lose Sinking further every day How could I live this way? Defeated in this futile war I cannot take this anymore The light of the world Grows dim in my eyes As they bleed Promises of a good life Turn to lies before me Save me from myself This just isn’t right The want, the fear, the pain… I cry myself to sleep every night I feel I’ve lost the fight The hurt never leaves From my life I slowly die inside Is there a cure for this disease? Or will I die in misery? The pleasure in my life is gone How did I last this long? There was a time I had seen The beauty of mankind And unbridled love Now I feel the anguish Trapped within my soul As I give in The end is here for me In this lifetime Welcoming my demise

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

I’ve come to the end Of my life in this time The hope I once had Is now gone and has died I search for an ending A quest – for the pain I must endure forever, seemingly My existence is bleak Once, I had felt the joy of life It seemed so good to me The beauty of my wife Was there for the whole world to see With the birth of our son I thought that I had it all In the game of life, I’d won Until it all began to fall What had gone wrong? I still don’t know … why? Feeling the blood Of my only son It covered my hands What had I done? Feeling that loss And what it now means There I had felt… No hope before me Ridden with the guilt I had inside I couldn’t hide from the pain Abandoned by My heartless wife I took her life A stable mind Has gone insane Why me? Why this grief? So many tears With no sympathy Why live this dismal life? As death awaits Please, just let me die With the blade Upon my wrist How could I even resist? Goodbye.

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

I stand on the edge of life Staring down Into a sea of despair Why did I even seem To really care? Reflecting on my life And what it once was Recalling the glory The peace, the joy, the love Was it all but a lie? A promise of better times A gleam of hope For my soul? Or the loss of all control? All alone And left in thought A battle that was never fought In a world so unkind As I slowly lose my mind A vision of me Left without a cause A sad display And must be wrong But continues to show My life’s defeat Giving way To this fucking misery Sending me Into a fit of rage Bringing upon The end of days Killing me slow Until it takes my life Arteries cut with the blade Of my knife Was it all but a lie? A promise of better times A gleam of hope For my soul? Or the loss of all control? All alone And left in thought A battle that was never fought In a world so unkind As I slowly lose my mind The anger That it makes me feel Invokes a pain So surreal Now that I’ve lost it all Into emptiness I fall

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

How could I Have been so blind? Success was meant for The chosen ones in life Not for me The lies to myself must end No reason to believe Chorus I knew that it was coming But I did not prepare The final rejection Filled with utter grief I could have been angry Like I was in the past But this time, I clutched The grip of failure’s hand The tears that I’ve wept Were never ones of joy But streams of burning For the chosen ones How many times must I fail While they succeed? Take it all away This hurt inside It’s killing me I can’t even try… So plain to see The victories in life Are not meant for me Just here to die Repeat Chorus

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

The tales He preached They believed Slaves of Christ Are trapped within A twisted web of His deceit They pray, day to day Though faith in their God Is lost Finding Christ Is not the way Could they believe the lies? Or will they see Creation was evolved Not of a deity? Discovery of the truth Is revealed The fate of the world Is in their hands Becoming real Darkened ways embraced Rebirth of the human race Depression becomes widespread Knowing that their God is dead Bright lit days turn to night No promise of an afterlife Now that they see the truth They have the right to choose A race once proud Has fallen apart Living a lie From the very start Mindless drones On their knees to beg For a world Only a God could give The weak at heart Are drained of hope Losing their faith And all control In a godless world They are left distraught New life begins With the fallen ways of God

Your life on this earth dissolves As the tears Of those around you fall Despond and in mourning You can hear the silence Victim of a cruel And senseless violence We feel in us Never-ending sorrow We know for you There is no tomorrow Through our lives we see These countless tragedies In you, we see our future A life six feet deep Hopeless in our thoughts And stricken with disease It preys on our fears Through pain and fallen tears… A mourner sees the way What purpose do we serve When death is what we deserve? No longer mourning But together in death They lay us to rest Could it be that it’s true? They now feel The never-ending sorrow They know for us There is no tomorrow We’ve come to join you In a place they fear To suffer together Though without a tear…

The sun that shines In the sky Brings the world its warmth And continues life It starts each day From deep in space Though in the end It will burn away Pre-Chorus We hide from the light And embrace the night Until we see that day We will live this way Dwell within the earth In these damp, darkened caves Never to escape Always on the run Finding ways to hide In the shadows of the sun We thrive Chorus Extinction of our dying race Is at stake Though we grow stronger With every life we take Lurking in the dark Feeding on the fears of man Draining their blood So we may live Living with the pain And disgrace Of this sheltered life Killing what we need Consuming everything we see We gain our strength With each death Giving us hope That we seek Still, we can’t succeed And the torment This causes inside Brings visions Of a world that we fear And its burning light Searing our flesh into dust Though we’ll die if we must To live again We’ve survived For so many years Even with the progress of man The end is so near Darkness will cover the earth Giving way to birth For we shall rise Repeat Chorus Repeat Pre-Chorus

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025