Dark Matter

Even after all the days are gone Even though the writer knows he's wrong Still the words are written and recalled In the empty isolated halls Held in high regard, he comes again Surface gone from under me, no more security The future lies erased These are the last remaining days If in doubt about the meaning meant Make this one decision your defense Stay alive to calculate the dead Lines of color radiate ahead Silence now descends upon the earth Can't deny the evidence, not now, not even once The future lies erased These are the last remaining days Surface gone from under me, no more security The future lies erased These are the last remaining days The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound When the vision cuts across the sky There is no reflection in my eye All the undertakers talk the same Saving pressure and appointing blame States of independence form anew Can't deny the evidence, not now, not even once The future lies erased These are the last remaining days The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound Light shatters the skeleton circus And the carnival's deadly host No memory, nothing remembered From the pages of the Book of Ghosts Though the system stays in place What if I'm no longer safe? Night falling gathers at my heels Lines the contours of the cold parade Search everywhere, nothing is revealed Fear creeps along the cavalcade Through the fields of evergreen Passing by as if unseen Though the system stays the same What if I'm no longer sane? The only thing I'll take While I'm alive and half awake Is what I've made, no surrender set to fade The only thing I want is taken out and rained upon Heart beaten down No surrender to the sacred sound

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

Lights are out on Neon Drive Unprotected in my bed Behind the walls it comes alive Shoots again into my head I see the red dust shadow In the corner of my eye Another child is calling "No, no, where did my Daddy go? He's flown, I'm alone When I'm grown up I'll fly too" Take these things, fold your wings Words can't bring you back It's been this way forever Everything I thought was mine Been haunted by reminders since 1969 I keep the shadow walled in In the deepest part of me And still the child is calling "No, no, why did my Daddy go away? None will say, when I wake up I'll know" Tears I've tried so hard to hide always break inside Take these things and fold your wings Words can't bring you back

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

In moods of don't disturb, I'm on edge and then Afraid, I call for answers again and again I keep on hoping that you'll do something real Accept the consequence but you never will I may have squandered it but what do I know? There's one good God above us, bad God below I keep on hoping you'll remember me still Admit I wasn't wrong but you never will And there's no way In a place of illusion pale as glass One day one thing is sure - this too shall pass I'll stay, waiting the longest time Until you come but you never will Now as the shadows fall on Allhallows Eve We spin our tangled web, learn to deceive I keep on hoping that you'll do something real Give in to influence but you never will And there's no way Any time any place we'll meet again One day with eternal evasion this will end I'll stay, waiting the longest time Until you come but you never will This kind of living death is made in the mind I find with these restrictions I'm more deaf than blind No matter where I look, I'm under attack Whichever road I took, I always came back And there's no way In a place of illusion pale as glass One day one thing is sure - this too shall pass I'll stay, waiting the longest time Until you come but you never will

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

I'm cold and unapproachable Deceptive and a fraud Don't need to keep attention I hate to be ignored The soul of no discretion Belligerent, won't think outside the box I'm critical and careless My open mind is shut and firmly locked I'm selfish and insensitive I'm rotten to the core Pretentious and derivative You've seen it all before My good contributions Are counted on the fingers of one hand No New Year's Resolution Nothing ever goes the way I planned My catalogue of failures Is etched upon my lips The baggage that I carry Would sink a thousand ships My motives are uncertain Intentions not altogether pure So now don't you want me beside you Just like it was before? I'm stupid, inarticulate My ego grows and grows Libido turns to celibate I don't know where it goes No lifelong performance Prepares me for the final curtain call I swear no allegiance No loyalty to anything at all You, like me, were raised to be A million times admired Unlike mine, your family line Were all born brilliant liars

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026

I. First Of The Last Long before the living past Had ripped it all apart Something still remained until It flashed back to the start Where it stands nobody saw Behind the blackest eyes Show them how you're stronger now It pays to advertise wisely Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love which I now regret What I'd give to hear again Those everlasting songs Why did all the accidents Contrive to fall at once? Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short For once in my life I wasn't alone With blood on my hands, how could I have known? Used to be the great white hope Once I walked on water Now I barely stay afloat Balance out of order With every sympathy worn away Who can I return to now? For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon Searching for a kindred soul Someone to rely upon We disconnected and Heaven sent Sheltered in dead air Hidden everywhere II. The Wrong Host The sky lights up above America The world is lost but loves America When the eyes of children See the ones left standing And the rest begin To finally understand The hand of God defends America And who would not defend America? We've got light on our side We're in pole position So praise the Lord And raise the ammunition high Raise it high Hide where you can We will shoot you where you stand I've walked a million miles Upon an open road And once in every while Without the will to carry on Hours held me too long In one location An old familiar tale A glory to behold A work of genius The greatest story ever sold As you sign on the line As you do what you're told All you sell is your soul I've been this way before I've seen it many times Collision on the track The fiction turning into fact No-one dares to look back Best you start to prepare For the harvest ahead All you lose is yourself III. Nocturne I'm brought to life with a series of shocks I realise that you are gone from my life And still I cling to the fear of the dark Don't follow them for they don't care how you are And I'm finding a way of being Accepting life all alone And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing A way to live on my own It wasn't hard to believe in the lie Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault Why does the world continue to spin While everything around me grinds to a halt? And I'm finding a way of being Accepting life all alone And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing A way to live on my own IV. Frame And Form Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb Shine like a star so bright Anybody can see anytime No-one will want to follow This will be gone tomorrow We enter an age of permanent doubt Where we communicate without words But I must be heard So I cut through the smoke and the noise Mine is a real fine line It imagines it's one of a kind Goodbye to all expression Farewell to superstition We enter an age of permanent doubt Where we communicate without words And the noise expands As it covers the lie of the land Shine like a star so bright Till we shut out the light Put out the fire Cut through the smoke and the noise Lately I've been talking to myself Been remembering and doing little else The road ahead is anything but clear Last time around, where did we go from here? V. Mortal Procession What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong Anyone can be persuaded Given the time, we all scream alone What about this good for nothing Season again? Everything's come and gone And I can't believe that I'm not Watching you, I'm in a sorry state Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can The words I hardly understand Gather 'round me While I wait What about those colder cowards Arming against lost intelligence? Anyone who saw me crawling There would have known that I was normal once Return to ordinary thoughts Too young to take the stand But old enough to kill anyone In the days when love divided up the looks No drastic means were used like rod and hooks To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed No augmentation needed to refine In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice For plastic is the currency of choice And beauty born is strictly for the birds Your cash is fine but credit is preferred When I held myself aloft I walked across the water Now I barely cut across Lives are getting shorter And they open up another door To a border far below For the time that I'm allowed There's a new horizon But a soul as cold as ice Is nothing to rely upon If I'm hanging onto angels' wings Then I'm safer in the air Do I still qualify Suspended from on high? No other sanctuary have I VI. Ghosts Of Days And when the eyes of children See past the ones left standing And the time has surely come To understand who we are Slowly the fires are burning Bearing their silent witness And the living past returns To reap the Harvest of Souls

Submitted by Grave666 — Feb 23, 2026