Ashen Eidolon
I remember sunlight dancing across her face Patterns in my mind, gently etched in gold and amber The warmth of summer riding sweetly on her breath A warmth recalled only in memories of halcyon yesterdays Now summer has ended and the warmth is gone Nothing but a braid on the gallows trees remains to mark her passing In autumn's wake, sorrow took her as its own My heart was buried with her there beneath the bleeding oak She died alone in that mournful glade No comfort sought nor gained in hateful solitude She flew on wings as black as seething night Oh where was I, thou blighted, cursed wood? Gold and ochre Behold the tapestry of the fall There is a beauty A certain subtle grandeur In the withering that consumes us all Among the sightless trunks and boughs Bare feet upon forgotten soil paths That leaves blind her desperate plight Yet ravens watched from every branch And witnessed mute her final fall With solemn caws they called her dead And flew into the granite sky Time fades away yet sorrow remains And as her final song she sang: 'I will fade as night conquers day I am the ashen eidolon, the deepest shade of grey' She shuddered with the flaming leaves Her veins spat golden gouts of burning life That swirled upward against the pouring rain Which came down hard as iron coffin nails It splintered wooden limbs and shattered stone And pounded on her lifeless, paling corpse It gave her leave of what she could no longer bear And forged for her a gilded tomb
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.
I close my eyes and hear the stream as it passes Moments lost to whims of time Held close by the embrace of aspens Wrought through with a sorrow I cannot define I breathe in the autumn air And lift my face to the sky All I hear are echoes of despair As I watch the seasons wither and die Do the oaks feel this distant pain? Can the pines offer me relief? Have the aspens wept with the rain? Does the forest know his untouchable grief? Now I wander on forever Down these oaken halls of sorrow Seeking solitude in the autumn months Through days so long and hollow Fallen leaves pave the path I walk Barren branches lead the way Bringing shelter from the sun And days so far away The beauty of this forest sings to me Through words of wind and verse of falling leaves Its song is one of sorrow and days long past The time is gone but the memories always last For all this time I have been searching For why the skies are grey All colour lost to time and sorrow The sun put out by pain As autumn leaves keep on dancing And pay no heed to me My journey through these wild landscapes Is all that I have left I come across a quiet river That wanders through the trees I stare into its running waters And fall onto my knees In resignation to the forest That's held me for so long I close my eyes and drift away Into nature's evensong
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.