At the Maw of Ruin
Among the concrete walls And the dark city streets I left my bed in a dream And found myself in the trees And there I felt A sinking feeling Something was watching me And then came the beasts With piercing eyes I held my breath Waiting to die A black leopard Dark as the night A lion of gold Wise and old A silver she-wolf Swift as the wind Their fangs were ready To tear me apart Their claws were sharp As a perfect knife I bracеd myself To feel their bite But instеad They spoke to me This should be Your final breath But there's been Too much death We are the mothers Of kings long dead We see the future Where no man will tread Our Gaia is dying She's crying in pain But no one will listen It's all been in vain We've come here to warn you It's the end of our time If nothing is done No one will survive The trees used to sing But now they lie silent Our kind is deaf From the screams of your tyrants This Earth becomes the tomb For all that you know The moon will come crashing into the sea The fires of Sol will burn everything The stars will shatter like shards of glass And all that you are will all come to pass
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026
Who will you be? You're nothing at all When you crawl on your knees And your bones begin to rot How could you not think It would all end in misery? Do you really think You're the light? Do you really think You're something divine? Your anger will be swallowed Into the endless void Your death creeps Around the corner Your corpse stinks Of gluttony I see it all The rise and fall In your eyes The crying child inside The one that died A long time ago We do not belong here We are the scum of the еarth The fragile egos of mеn Will come Will come to an end
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026
There's something in the dark I see it when I close my eyes A memory of the past The haunting The haunting lies Calling to me In the back of my mind And always Breaking the silence The more I try (To forget) Terrible, desperate voices Faces I've seen before Have tried to forget God. how I wish I could forget The phantom, it howls In an ungodly voice My ears rattle, burst and bleed Feeling there's no еscape The cruelty of my drеams Dissolving in the quiet decay I can't escape myself This horror grows from within I see everything I feel everything Writhing under the skin
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026
The bodies are rotting in the ground The worms made homes of their skulls The trees are swaying to their own song now The day of judgement has come An empty throne stands still and alone Resting in the golden grove Rusted red and twisted with vines Forgotten relic of those malign The beasts drank the blood Of all that died And then came the flood 'Til none survived And nature took what was rightfully hers The kings cried out for their souls As they were strung up still alive Impaled and shamed for all of time The beasts drank the blood Of all that died And then came the flood 'Til none survived The Earth is not dead yet Her wrath cannot be undone You tried to claim her as your own Now she devours your bones A verdant terror tore them apart The branches bursting from their mouths The seeds were planted in their hearts They didn't know 'Til it started to grow
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026
See the dunes rise high To the furious sun The blazing sand Scorches this dead land Can you hear the screams Sounding from beneath? They taste the salt from your sweat As it drips into the sand A thousand years since they've wept The skin flakes off their searing hands They rise in agony from below Grasping blades forged from their hatred The blood inside them has gone cold The wrath of their forgotten souls They stab and slice into thеir veins And rub the blood on their skin Thе only relief from the heat Goes hand in hand with their pain Should you make it through the dunes You will know only of sorrow Atop the cliff, overlooking the sea The faces of the forlorn and empty Will you go to the city under the waves Where the sinners never sleep? Those who decided it wasn't worth it And flung themselves to their graves The weight of the ocean will crush you And choke the air from your lungs You'll die without a scream to be heard Swallowed in the blue oblivion I have no throat (From which to sing) I have no lungs (From which to breathe) I have no stomach (Nothing to feed) I have no blood (I cannot bleed)
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026
Better if I could find the words to say Whenever I take a choice it turns away I'm worn, tired of my mind I'm worn out thinking of why I'm always so unsure I battle my thoughts I find I can't explain I've traveled so far, yet somehow feel the same I'm worn, tired of my mind I'm worn out thinking of why I'm always so unsure I'm alive when I sleep Why am I not, in all that I've got I can't find no one to blame Stand down, damned one Damned one
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 17, 2026