Biolume, Part 3 – A Fullmoon Madness

Fiery shades of orange disappear And the dusty skies begin to clear I can feel the coolness of the shade As I stand here so tightly chained I can smell the stench of acrid air I can see the eyes who linger there I feel my strength wasting away I am alone, not even the dreams will stay In and out of deathly sleep Unconsciousness begins to creep I see but only misty dark And darkness dims that inner spark I fight to keep my eyes awake I fight to hope the chains might break My strength seems to be absorbed And taken by that Golden Orb As he lowers his steeds out of sight I welcome the calming twilight But his eyes are ever in my head His piercing gaze fills all with dread His light gives light and threatens death In darkness comes a moment rest My dreams are scattered and barely formed The images die to be reborn That tiny spark morphs into the palest of blue And from behind this light a horned shape shines anew

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

This traveller, who came from far away Begins to awake To the night before him He feels the chains unmerciful The dangers plentiful This darkness ancient The world is hiding A truth, now buried In dust and bones Of lives unknown The barren haze Of stardust slowly blow In the winds that travel From worlds away Here is a land where only death grows Time is so slow, darkness takes hold, All will fall in the abyss of the void formed Nightmares are born, ruined stronghold Fear unleashed Here is a world that only death knows Shadows they sow all the sun’s woes And the dark, in its glory it consumes all, Mighty, regal, king of all doom Born of fear

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Night has fallen and the lurking beasts are stirring amongst the resting bones I wonder if another met an awful fate that foreshadows my own I try to listen to the winds in case there's something that is watching me But they are staying well away, can they sense what is about to be? The air is thin, and I am perched upon a rock on a mountain high The chains are always warm despite the fact the night grows cold and dry I see the stars and find some solace knowing they are so far away They are brethren to the one who will return to ring in the new day Starlight whimpers in the sky Shadows crawl along the ground String winds begin to blow and howl Darkness takes a hold of me As I close my eyes, I feel the winds burning my skin The dust gathers and covers my blistered feet As it blows it slowly reveals what is beneath Others who have tempted fate, who have sinned The chains are still bound to their bones So on this barren and exposed jagged rock The grim and forgotten past is lying all around me The dark truth is I'm not the first and likely not the last The gods have punished countless times before me But these bones are from a time so old Lying decayed in the runs of their own downfall Riding on the wind, the voices from the past Speaking from the bones of the long forgotten dead I hear them calling and welcoming of my doom I join the fallen, and add my soul to theirs The starlight fades, all feeling wanes The moment I've feared, is now here

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

With the air I breathe Comes the life I leave With the morning fire Comes the last I see With the rocks so old It's the world I've known As it crumbles down And it all grows cold I can hear them call From beyond their walls And their voices break From the weight they haul They have seen all time Of this humankind And they know this fate Before their eyes All you see in this darkened world This fallen soul you have always known From the dark World torn apart Back from the grave The end of days All you see in this darkened world This fallen soul you have always known Rising from the dirt The shadows now glow Spectres, wraiths of doom They focus their eyes on me As ghosts they swarm And cover me The heavy chains have become free I see my hands For now they glow The light inside has grown As ghosts they stare So wickedly The very chains, still bind to me I see my flesh Ripped from my bones They have always known

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Spirits of the night Who hate the human life Detractors of the way Obstruct the rightful path In dark they come to play On souls they come to prey The tired and the meek And those who are too weak Spirits of the moon Whose light shall guide the way And stir a madness deep As creatures crawl and creep Death is never far Beneath the burning stars The empress of the night Whose chariot now rides Arise the horned goddess A vessel in the night Arise the horned goddess Feed on our cries Arise the horned goddess A vessel in the night Arise the horned goddess Feed on our maniacal cries Her movement has taken Her past the forsaken She stands up in silver The light glows within her From shadows, the sleepers And night seeking creepers Are pulled by her presence And grow with her essence Arise the horned goddess A vessel in the night Arise the horned goddess Feed on our cries Arise the horned goddess A vessel in the night Arise the horned goddess Feed on our maniacal cries The night begs to listen The sky starts to glisten They beckon to her summon and call Her light casts bewitchment On all who now witness The grandeur of a moonlit nightfall The world now awakens And all who partake in The feast of her power Have no need to cower Envenomed, psychotic Delirious, hypnotic A madness comes over This one lonely soul

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

What once was dark sky, adorned with stars Recedes beneath your silver cart Illa cantat: nos tacemus Your snow-white horses pull at the reins The dark above is your domain Illa cantat: nos tacemus You rose from below the ocean You shone your light On seas so blue You rode the night path on high You have entranced thee Your witching eyes Your radiance, a gentle glow Your softened rays light this world below Illa cantat: nos tacemus The shadows dance, the night birds sing Within the darkness, their echoes ring Illa cantat: nos tacemus You rose from the below the ocean You shone your light On seas so blue You rode the night path on high You have entranced thee Your witching eyes Huc uires tuas intende: sic te lucidi uultus ferant et nube rupta cornibus puras eas sic te regentem frena nocturni aetheris detrahere numquam Thessali cantus queant nullusque de te gloriam pastor ferat

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Light, as a grain of stardust Small as a beam of moonlight Dark as a cavernous fall Silent like a whisper in the void As one they grow As one they fall Crastina die delebitur iniquitas terrae Crastina die delebitur iniquitas terrae Light, as a grain of stardust Small as a beam of moonlight Tomorrow the sins of the land will be destroyed In the fires that this wanderer brings As one the sins of the land begin to grow As one they descend the cavernous fall Crastina die delebitur iniquitas terrae Crastina die delebitur iniquitas terrae On this moonlight night of aphelion the stratosphere opens And through this dark atmospheric portal her light transcends Swathes of little flickers like sparks and embers fall And the moonlight casts to a single soul, embraced in rapture Light, as a grain of stardust Small as a beam of moonlight Dark as a cavernous fall Silent like a whisper in the void Her eyes are fiercely poised and stern Sharp as the crescent on her crown And the stars above, disappear behind her glow As one we fell, as one we grew Light, as a grain of stardust Small as a beam of moonlight Dark as a cavernous fall Silent like a whisper in the void Tomorrow the sins of the land will be destroyed In the fires that this wanderer brings As one the sins of the land begin to grow As one they descend the cavernous fall

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Fallen soul, spirit cold In magic verse, spells reversed Words of the ancient invoked And uttered in the darkness To return the spirit back to the flesh And be one again Her sceptical eyes, pierce deep down within me They're seeking why I'm confined in the chains Forged for her brother In the coldness it burns, the pain returns In radiance shining She casts her spell over me Her mortal pining A curse-born weakening Stand, mortal who came from far away You remind me of a past time, every night I'd descend in that Latmian cave And I'd find lying sleeping, always youthful Oh my shepherd slept in peace Never waking, never ageing This old curse still haunts me So many years, since I've last laid my eyes down upon him sleeping Only in dreams can I hear him All this time, not a whisper or word I am doomed to be forever cursed In radiance mourning She casts her spell over me Her mortal fawning A curse-born weakening

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Riding on the midnight winds Voices cackle from afar Her silver horns now rise and meet A glowing pearly orb The full moon now adorns The grandeur of the night The stars all fade away A madness overcomes Now with her strength regained She breaks apart my chains I breathe in her maddening glow Now free, where do I go? She shines unto the cave Her hand it points the way The voices on the wind They chant their words within Her eyes are opened wide A panic now resides Her light it now darkens And turns a red shade She makes for her chariot To make her escape Te quoque, Luna, traho quamvis Temesaea labores aera tuos minuant; currus quoque carmine nostro pallet avi, pallet nostris Aurora venenis! Ancient words now chanted A spell from the shades She's drawn from her chariot Her light now will fade Te quoque, Luna, traho quamvis Temesaea labores aera tuos minuant; currus quoque carmine nostro pallet avi, pallet nostris Aurora venenis!

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

From the howls of the witches come Wicked words and evil song I am caught in a swirling wind As the moon pulls back again In the lunar maelstrom... In the lunar maelstrom As the night grows ever dark The gate roars and the whirlwinds start The witches laugh with every gust As I'm trapped in a haze of dust I wait for my only chance And run for the cave From inside I can see An everlasting struggle Two sides pulling Tides of air growing Her red glow is darkening And her power fading In the darkness of the cave A last light beam points the way A deep recess reveals itself And so I wander further in The red light shines on a rock Hanging over a pile of bones Her lies the remains Of one who was cursed With eternal youthful sleep Though eternal no more And on a tablet near his bones A scrawl with forgotten words Tinged brown with dried blood Written from an all-knowing hand Qualis per nubila Phoebes Atracia rubet arte labor; suffua veneno tenditur ac sanie gliscit cutis; igneus atro ore vapor quo longa sitis morbique famesque et populis mors una venit To the moon I turn and face Anf feel the poison swell within A deep anger burns within Now the fire's lit again In the lunar maelstrom... In the lunar maelstrom

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Now fires light the darkness Of this land that death knows The dead no longer forgotten Now I'll always know For the horned goddess The witches will burn As one they fall And join the ghosts of madness

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Through pain, poison and death In blinding light or shade The wheel that's set in motion Can never be unmade The sun, it never rises And the moon is forever red Burning flesh and charcoal bones Scattered within the cave walls Am I the only one now here With this I've cleansed this land And forever cursed my soul What was once here is no more The broken chains have melted And the ground is scorched and scarred I am the new god of death And the end of life is near The last days shall be the first day Of this new imperial reign The sun plunged into darkness The past has crumbled away

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

As I feel the chilly midnight air And the end is coming ever near You’re breaking through the darkest clouds And the light you give seems so profound I cannot hide, I can’t pretend I have been to hell and back again All I have done is meaningless In the moonlight, I can find A place within the darkness Though I have tried, I’ll be denied The comfort of the night sky Luna, rise on this lonely night Luna, show me your glowing light Luna, light all the creatures eyes Luna, shine for me one more time I have reached the point of no return And the flame within no longer burns I am destined to be lead away I will never see the wretched day Will you shine again once more for me Your glow is all I’ll ever need Even if it’s just a memory In the moonlight, I can find A place within the darkness Though I have tried, I’ll be denied The comfort of the night sky Luna, rise on this lonely night Luna, show me your glowing light Luna, light all the creatures eyes Luna, sing for me one more time

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025