City Burials

In times of surrender I am shedding my scars I was sick But I was set for the stars The robe wasn't mine But I wore it still In the sunset of age On the weight of my limbs Closed was the door to my past perception And my disposition Had then been changed I opened my mind to all the love forsaken You saw my white flag You saw our shadows merge Through tides of repentance My words led to deed In their wake See how I sway Eyes fixed on the horizon Bleak as it seems I let the words relapse And return to a dream Then glide into the night All my memories unbroken I let the raptors circle me To become their only prey I see the beast laying waste I see his wings keep unfolding His name strewn across the sky And reflected on the world This is my elegy for love Their covenant Gold for our blood Came to stay in exile Transmigration at a halt I could not cross I had no choice but to make peace Reach higher ground Every breath now without a sound Every breath now without a sound

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 24, 2025

Erased my plan Had nothing better to do Hollow sky Dead to our collective eye No rebellion No hostility inside Just indifference A bit of quiet And a slow descending curve To keep you dreaming Yeah Of consolation You drink my words in the wake of your sorrow You walk beside me and it feels like a hundred years The plans you make for the perpetual tomorrow Will be colapsing still This time i'm losing the battle There are too many things to overcome I seek respite The comfort of apathy Burial time Submito to the non-divine Did you see The soot in my eyes The long night The spiralling lights I'm so tired The scars in my mind It didn't end well But you had me on fire

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025

Drifting like wood Our years In the rivers of the aftermath Delivered us from free will Our stories were thrown on the fire Burning like bibles They shattered our right to wonder Exposed us to constraint Hey We're dead now Affinity has been found below the ground Beyond the heart's vow The open road Amnesia bound Our carbon shells deserted We came so far for nothing Unsung Fixed on dead grass Who will remain And wake up to the sound of sorrow When your skies are clearing When your battles are fought When mercy returns To all of your thoughts Remember the carnage The vanishers trails Our souls of the sunset Drifting away

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025

Waiting for warmth Endless the days Argent haze As remedy flows into concealed veins Where are we to run Our season won't come And everything you have said So far has been wrong Algidity It's late in evening here The wind dying down The lights are leaning No more sound Read my lips, love Fill your lungs with words Lest we forget to explore Bring back our revered dreams Our month of May Memories left my heart sore White giants sleep Along the roads Our dead end tracks In times as vile as these I want us back City glacier of sordid snow Darkness come in from the street and glides back out again My voice is shifting ever so slow The prints of my fingers sing upon your skin

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

So cruel your desire It pulled me under But the drapery of my eye won't fall I lie in wait for the night to find you Sephia teeth and claw Hope was changing lanes I had to turn Changed my pace Either way I grew so old This is how i disappear Separated from the dead twin No hound is on my trail now Journey to the heart of your deceit and defining my shed skin With no one waiting I am waiting for no one Departure from the terminus Arriving on the 4th Weightless in the arms of none Flick of the switch, my name lit up Flickering in white, then gone

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

We're sundered, our cards were dealt and what did you receive? In my rest, in all my coming nights I will dream for you to see. And my words will be spilled upon the ground and sorrow must be freed Morning, at long last sleeping. No colours to wake me!

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025

How wild the wind came in on the day when I found out Passage of the one dead star, its black dust lingering. Seeping through to my lungs! I fall towards the skyline, I drown my sorrows here in liquids clear. Time for absolution! How the dead birds sing, they're right atop my roof. Take my offering, my promise can never be undone. The weight of midnight replaced by the shadow of a sun. I hold you in my arms and it's farther than you've ever been, little one. Adrift in sacred vertigo, the name is wandering. Our neon epitaph! Time for absolution! All the dead birds sing, they're right atop my roof. Shadow of my shadow, cling not to my grief. I am long left behind now, you are free. Shadow of my shadow, cling not to my grief. I am long left behind now, you are free. I hold you in my arms and it's farther than you've ever been, little one. Take my offering, my promise can never be undone. The weight of midnight replaced by the shadow of a sun.

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025

There comes a time for all of us to set our unfortunate sails. Our chance to part with the unrest, the open trail, the fever's crest. Will you meet me there underneath the pallid city lights? In the rain of Summerland, over the ashes Our memories in open hands My words must levitate And reverberate through the void The nails are in, the pressure's there The music of loss in the air Thought i saw you in the street Standing still Watching me I would fall down on my knees I would love to surrender to nothingness But i'll stay another year To see if things might change Remain where you are My love will protect you always

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

One man down Five more left to go Five more left to go Look I told you so We never stop If we said that We'll back it up For sure You know We're fighters We won't back down Stay true to the core Stay true to the core If you fear the heat You best be leavin' You gotta stand back If you don't love the beating For me and my crew Don't play for keeps We blow up and clear the streets We're fighters

Submitted by MetalElf — Nov 08, 2025