The Violent Sleep of Reason

Dismantling the clockwork that makes me the cynic Pallet, wheel and click The properties of my indifference Reverse-engineering what makes it tick Dissecting the finetuned mechanism Rack and barrel, spring and pin Its synchronous characteristics To kill what makes it spin Disassemble this machinery Re-program these eyes, undo this design Labelled and filed, each part indexed Broken to pieces then thoroughly burned Deconstruction of what I am Buried to make sure he never returns Taken apart, defused, blueprints turned to ashes Eradicate the last remains, remnants of the insane Disintegration, the destruction of me now imperative To purge myself of this condition, complete this dissolution a necessity Break this deceitful machine A lie, what once I was, obsolete instrument An outmoded contraption, a malfunctioning device That callous self now extinguished, that malignant self now disused That conceited invention to nothing now reduced Complete disintegration, the destruction of me now imperative To purge myself of this condition, complete this dissolution a necessity Break this deceitful machine

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025

Skyline draped in shimmering red Irradiant and treacherous Neon prophecies hail the end, the capital of piety Totalitarianopolis, city of dread The glorious streets of dystopia continuously running red This is where self is relinquished Autonomy sacrificed The idolatry of tyrants compulsory Welcome all to MonstroCity where norm is that of the insane All is illusion in MonstroCity Bow to it, it knows your name Relishing the idea of damnation "The wailing and gnashing of teeth" They know for sure where judgment's due "What's above and what's beneath" This is where we fail, where the self-righteous reign The empire of imaginary ghosts This is blind credulity's domain MonstroCity In here everyone knows "the truth" Which unforgiving icon is real Intolerance and prejudice saturates their zeal This is where self is relinquished Autonomy sacrificed The idolatry of tyrants compulsory

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

To you a beast you think you comprehend Not necessarily made all evil In the reflective pool of your eyes I see fear and intrigue co-mingle You hesitate to deem me all bad Yet when my face is shown, your eyes avert New thoughts sprout from that fearfilled soil Your nerves and intuition back on full alert You think that you've seen the truth, you think you know Yet disbelief grinds, the doubt it claws In you sleepless delirium I devour your thoughts If you only knew how your way of life sustains me Like electricity coursing through my soul Your will to retaliate, your vengeful thoughts announced I bring you me - conflict and death And the promise of spilling red by the ton I just might be there in your final moment I just might be the last thing your eyes take in

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025

A systematically applied veil to heedless eyes Focus deflected, ignore This is not our war Bury the abject shame in the same bile as our ideals The potent lubricant to deceits grinding wheels The menacing implications, the violent sleep of reason Betrayal we all help sustain Humanitarian treason This deadly inclination, this forfeiture of innocence The sacrifice of guiltless souls for our own deliverance The pain you feel Indifference thrust into your back Forged from our ignorance from our immorality A parody, this mockery To no avail you kneel before this our insanity Another life condemned Your fate sealed the second you came to exist Your suffering non-essential for we care not if you subsist We will all belie any allusion, any crime Cower and hide any culpability denied All will imply it's an illusion, a fallacy So when you die remember we said it's not reality

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

Why mourn this travesty Hide this slow degradation Claw and compete mindlessly All things undone too late Craving our waking sleep Is binding us to this ivory tower Serves to complete the truth that we cling onto So what are these things you hold true The defensive wounds of the unknowing eye Weeping thousands of wretched tears To lubricate the end with our fear The concussion from the crack of the whip Nullifies, sensations die Always numbing, always preaching Never resting, never sleeping The construction is our penance here Tumorous growth chiseled in white When the darkness comes to slay the day Enters horrors that you'll be wishing away Which is the way?

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

Impotent king beneath our feet You can rule down where you belong In dirt compacted, buried deep, you dwell with those you wronged Down there you can whisper, yell, even blare your odious lies To your silent audience of worms as they share with you, your eyes Tyrant, oppressor Your once resounding voice now just muted cries You self-avowed murderous god Ranks of annelids now you delegate Your commands unheard under ground Where your voice will never resonate Your time has come Declare the majesty fallen Your dominance, your hateful influence forever stifled Your sleep no longer impermanent Decaying matter now sums you up Like all the lives you've taken Now so are you retreating to dust

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025

Jealous vengeful fabrication Halo-crowned invention Sacred universal lie Artificial, divine Great archaic obseletum A prevarication, deceitfully contrived Synthesized, fictitious Dreamed up by remote prototypes Opiate for the yearning mass Administered, applied Three letter word for monster Empty promises of healing Profit aptly buried in the lies An industry rapt with avarice Medicatiing blind it's acolytes Useless panacea Imaginary cure-all To you we cry and supplicate Into your hell we fall Blind belief in their eyes Forever atoning Credulousy waiting Gazing to the skies

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025

Cry if you need to, disguise, evade, hide Run 'til you hit water, then swim Murder in your wake, plan, commit, exact You have earned our rage, now fly Beg if you have to, trade away your pride Run 'til you hit ground, then dig Death in your wake, those fantasies enacted You will learn that our rage won't die You will surely pay the ultimate price There is no way you will escape our retribution It will not matter how long it takes You took them from us so we will take you Do you believe that luck will somehow stand you by? Do you really think our resolve will wane? Do you really think that it will dissipate? We will haunt you, we will come for you To collect on what you owe to us Eye for eye, life for life Only payment in full can end this strife

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025

The most eloquent confession, your silence The most admitting trait, your turning away Avert your eyes and hush your struggling thoughts Detachment assumed as life mutates into decay The most manifest sign, your disregard The one apparent fault, your shunning of care Contempt now bred, refed and will sustained Division now groomed, nurtured and will maintained Apathy, opprobrium Virulence and animosity This sums you up Betrayal, disunion and fear, isolation Caught in this endless spiral, locked equilibrium A stasis founded in this atrophy of thought Your eyes unflinching, unaffected by the misery Gone is commiseration, gone is any sympathy One last farewell to perspicacity Final surrender to futility Dissociation, severance What have you done? What have you become?

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025