Life Promised Death

Turning like a stone in the waves That is swept away by the tides A constant in the framework That keeps the cycle moving onto A phantom residing in stagnation An undefined part of a fragmented whole Invisibly slumbering through the crowds Now i see the illness of reality... Can you smell the angst of conversion? The malodor that creates a wake of estrangement Are we truly part of humankind As elements in a blueprint? Memorable association members? Behold! recognize the nothingness - The absurdity of existence Gaze at yourself in the mirror What do you see in this hollow image? In this figureless compound That you want to etch a face into but your hands only feel like strangers Now i see what's really me...

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Tune the anthems of malice To release retained forces in a fierce greed Driving this moros engine Of a declining creation that wallows with hideous groans In a mania of greatness Ascend! ascend! Oon't step aside, break on through! onwards! onwards! Despise procrastination! The era of contempt is on the right And reclaims predominance Ascend! ascend! Don't step aside, break on through! Onwards! onwards! Despise procrastination! Fuel your machine That makes the pulse explode On a triumphal procession And in a smoldering excess Hostile - spiteful - everlasting And persistently awaiting For every sacrifice you made For every sorrow you have brought With the climax comes the fallen The era of contempt is on the rise And reclaims predominance

Someplace else - Withdrawn in remote landscapes Away from what pretends to be in consonance The true temple of eternal bliss lies hidden That knows no claim - no ecstasy T where deserters abscond from overkill Exhausted from velocity that culminates in vertigo When blurred thoughts got out of control Unable to differ above and below As in a cynical escape from a rest As in a constant high of rust and haste The pulse is in a fever aching for the overdose That resurrects primeval instincts Aheartfelt yearning to undo the turmoil That weighs heavily upon the shoulders Lured by the soul-cleansing force of silence That is nestled in the shades to Ar econciliating catharsis of the apostates To leave without a trace Everything and everyone behind

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

A shimmering in the distance Blazing cracks in the sky Carving holes into the mind An absorbent layer upon A mirage that mirrors the night A drifter who lost the trace Meandering through desolation A vanished spirit on the edge Getting lost in desert storms Corroding particles (of the earth) Seem to slowly melting upwards And all the colors are fading away Sleeping with the eyes open Locked in a swoon dystopia But there is this sole sense of delight The idea of how it feels to burn alive Sleeping with the eyes open A vague outline dissolves In sweeping tempests Crippled bones shattering In harsh gravel drifts An abandoned skin Of a lone - prowling - viper A hiss in the drought Of a cut off tongue when Dust floods the vessels Into endless streams of carmine An insidious blackout inherits Receding and withering - unceasingly A great disappearance A pale glance of a past splendor A drifter who lost the trace Meandering through desolation A vanished spirit on the edge Getting lost...

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Dreary days are slipping by A mental noise that keeps hammering This biting anger - the endless pain An ominous fear that still goes on And the lights turn off again The sun sets and darkness grows When drabness weaves its way And reveals the true face of decline The stench of the sewers Circulates around the hallways An iron taste of corrosion that Surrounds the flickering lights Light dying stars stringed on a wire Crackling - discharging - expiring Amidst a downward spiral Of a feigned and false tranquility ...And the faint... it grows And grows and grows... ...As the world... it goes And goes and goes... A straying dog that howls in rage Left alone and on the run Broken-down with a shattered spine Srawing circles on the edge Like a rat sliding down the drain An abysmal fall into uncertainty Adead man walking A prowler in the night Hunting his own shadow Beneath the traffic lights A dying star Crackling - discharging - expiring

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

An inner nightfall is passing through Fingers scrape across the floor Have i walled myself alive? Trapped in a state of giving all up? Why does this happen? What has happened to this place? I don't even try to cry for help As my voice would dry up in my throat Am i being pursued? hunted like a lame veal? What is it, that kindles such a blazing fire? In a crawling hysteria When i barely feel my limbs In the need to emerge from the idle days That petrify my consciousness A small riot is a craving An attempted escape that failed To leave everything behind While heading into nothing Rise! pull yourself up and run away! Fall! drag yourself down Ad descend into the night! Emptiness comes crawling Longing to break off again Fires are burning down The walls of resilience It pulls me away into the void Fall! drag yourself down And descend into the night! Emptiness comes crawling Longing to break off again Fires are burning down The walls of resilience It pulls me away into the void The sky looks like a moon from here Admidst the stones of an ancient well This mother's womb grants me the rest I am here... i remain... whole... in the ground

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

A caravan crawls along in affliction Dazed and reveling in oblivion Collapse of a disintegrated entity Wavering and mired in a mass hypnosis Fallen trailblazers entangled in closed ranks of dread and scare Imbalance - alienate - mesmerize Standstill - a mess - torpor Blackout - staggering in a swoon Worshiping abandoned watchtowers Allegiance to the ill-fated leaders Asymbiosis out of sync When a rift becomes a canyon Waking coma - blindead - palsied Disorder brings despair onto The anger of a frozen mass Which declines further in the ether Neglected idols evaporate in confusion Lost their spirit which never existed Isolated in a toxic dependence Undermined impulse for self-determination Of retarded egos walking in amnesia A caravan crawls along in affliction Dazed and reveling in oblivion Collapse of a disintegrated entity Wavering and mired in a mass hypnosis

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025