As We Set the Skies Ablaze

Outstanding, the artistry of Death In dire breaths of flame and brimstone Fraught be the meagre fight we fought Enthroned through dire needs of naught Beneath the fallout, the lie of "self" lies Bereft, soon to be gone The radiance of a thousand suns Burst at once into the sky The splendor of the Mighty One Towering above all gods Inhumanity has won Charon ferries in Humanity as one Suffocating beneath Erebus' shroud The failure to end all failures Buried all memoirs and saviors In the valley of dying stars The hecatomb of compassion comes Obliterating all benevolence shunned Decaying flesh and ashen bone, undone Amidst one thousand Armageddon's Oppenheimer's premise Impaled itself in Ockham's blade The wolf we fed was pitch black And by it we were enslaved

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

All of my twenty one grams guide these weary, blackened hands And salvation’s corpse these hands will exhume Alas, homo sum Alas, homo sum Unbound, of meaning absent As mere son of Atlas ‘midst endless galaxies With chaos and fury sweetening the absinth Of logos, baptized in seas of deceased deities I laid to rest all facades, Sung a requiem for the gods, Cut adrift from old moorings Crowning kinsmen over kings Each stroke of this pen aspires To cypher the fall of crumbling empires Of credence and creeds as a mire Of choirs of naïves hailing reason’s pyre Behold this testament This contemptuous lament of moral attrition The moment one screams to the deaf Who, in fear of death Devoted their lives to contradiction Rise above the smoke and mirrors Of nooses woven with feudalist strings Only wisdom, benevolence and valor Are worthy of worshipping All of my twenty one grams guide these weary, blackened hands And salvation’s corpse these hands will exhume Alas, homo sum

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

Love begets love, and only love remains Amidst thunderous storms of fury and blame As betrayal, loneliness and shame Forged an astounding aether of the life lust acclaimed Thus passion's avatar traverses the dark Caressing flashes of the heart's works of art Oh consort most divine, from me ten worlds apart Who are we but sorrows, which, entwined, depart? Alas, I yearn thousandfold Even if just to burn and fade once again Or to live, to have and to hold Enraptured ad aeternum, I will remain As two souls terraform an eclipse 'Till the days of the dire adieu And after, when the void caresses these lips I'll turn ice to cinder through memories of you Empress of the wild, magic and the moon Subsiding all my tempests through starlight strewn Will the weight of us turn all bliss to mire, As choirs of maelstroms devour all desire Or transfix requiems into gleaming sonatas, While drinking from hands scarred by stigmata? Alas, I yearn thousandfold Even if just to burn and fade once again Or to live, to have and to hold Enraptured ad aeternum, I will remain As two souls terraform an eclipse 'Till the day of the dire adieu And after, when the void caresses these lips I will turn ice to cinder through memories of you Through memories of you

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

O serpentine void of hysteria Of incestuous hunger untamed Ushering notions of poisoned elation With no connation of truth or shame We are a dissonant harmony Anathematized in antagonic creeds Blind is your refusal to see Deformities in conformity It all comes down to belief A fear of all apart from the norm There is an art to your blindness, and its motif? The scythe of faith in a different form Who are we if not me versus you Truth unhollowed be told, if only you knew The ease in slaying the beasts of beliefs inhumane When all four winds storm against the grain We are a dissonant harmony Anathematized in antagonic creeds Blind is your refusal to see Deformities in conformity Critical surrealism Tolerance unbound as the eye of the storm In the sempiternal schism Of autotocratic elitism and true reform The heart wants what it wants, Thus in mutual hatred, they waltz through the storm Obscurantism and Renaissance Dismembering Descartes in odium’s maelstrom Let us determine, first and foremost Which one of us can hate the most As the nooses of both fear and nous, in fray, Intertwine, misaligned, ‘midst bleak nights where no star shines Beware of fantasizing in forevers, For coups d'œil with ghosts induce tremors Scaring empty oaths into shattered spines So march on, towards oblivion if you must I trust your absence is thoroughly unmissed May all standard-bearers of totalitarian errors March on, edging towards the abyss ‘Tis my endeavour To offer you as tribute to bereavement’s kiss In blissful terror We are a dissonant harmony Anathematized in antagonic creeds Blind is your refusal to see Deformities in conformity It all comes down to belief The heart wants what it wants It all comes down to belief Obscurantism and Renaissance The heart wants what it wants, Thus, in mutual hatred, we will waltz through the storm Obscurantism and Renaissance Dismembering Descartes in odium’s vile storm Thus am well aware of possessing hate to spare And just barely enough compassion championing reason over despair

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

Cadaverous pandaemonia of wraiths Kneeling proud at the tomb of redemption Corrupted through benighted faith And myths of primeval conception To those adrift in the aether of dreams Every flickering shadow a deity seems The grand scheme of things is a sham So be damned, for to be damned is to live free Heed the war drums’ crescendo As heavenly bodies realign Carving fear into each single breath Of the blind who presume to lecture the blind Withering us to mere traces of echoes Capriciously humbled beneath barren shrines Confined in dread of ideals of Death Through clamorous cries speaking of grand design Conquer the coming horizons Oh Candide, blood of the titan Rise above the chasm of these dire, dying days Child of Man Set the skies ablaze In ever glimmering illuminist ways For haunting is the thought of succumbing To the lash of devotion towards divinity The horizon of reason, most conniving treason Herald of plague, slave of obscenity Three cheers! Dare they to rise from the cave Of credo quia absurdum, the irrational’s reign? For such craven enclaves ever crave to enslave Haunting consciousness as Humanity’s bane As humanity’s bane Conquer the coming horizons Oh Candide, slayer of titans Rise above the chasm of these dire, dying days Child of Man, - set the skies ablaze Let us declare as enemy The realm of myth and falsity And swear ourselves to perpetually dare To dread untruth and hypocrisy Gods never die Gods never were Gods never die And what dies not may never live Ignite the blackened sky Alight with lies we cannot forgive Gods never lived And what dead may never die Sever, undeceived, All faith impure that I decry

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

Unfurl wings woven with Icarus' dreams As the winds lull whispers of what grief has sown Through years of sorrow enamoured with deliverance Towards the Great Unknown Ballades concerning horizons anew Beneath you bless the breath of the vagrant wild For Hope is the one true deity Flawed as it may be, we remain its child We dream to dare beyond the Misanthropocene For all answers of meaning lie far beyond the Sun As within the Mysteries of what one is and yearns to be The path to be trod, from Ape to Man, Titan to God Is the One and the All, Death or Destiny Brew all the shadows we cast With all that should be praised And breathe, my son, at last As Homo deus On the shoulders of giants long past Beholders of guidance in us engraved Rise, my son, at last As Homo deus Seek to know, To love, and to grow Cherish cognition, compassion and wisdom For somewhere between Hume and stoicism Therein lies the one true path to freedom So love most of the night, yet head South for the winter Away from that wistful valley where Man ate his bones 'Cross groves lost in candlelight, through the mouth of the River Stray 'midst the uncanny, land of the Great Unknown In Everlasting Horizons Brew all the shadows we cast With all that should be praised And breathe, my son, at last As Homo deus On the shoulders of giants long past Beholders of guidance in us engraved Rise, my son, at last As Homo deus Astride all tales of foreboding your forefathers told Ride farther into the light as exploding supernovae Know all wonders, wander far, wondering at what we are And if these words resonate, keep them to memory In Everlasting Horizons

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 25, 2025

Realize all is in vain Humanity and its growing pains Unless we rise above the Sun All horizons come undone Thus the sky was set ablaze In the shadow of our dying days May this light banish all sombre nights And set you on your way Of Mother Gaea heir apparent Made of stardust, love, lust and pain Protector, vassal and messiah Of both yourself and her domain Ride the winds that compassion proclaims Caressed by the warmth of pantheons set aflame Above the crumbling firmament lies the cosmos The sword of the morrow for better days True freedom opens at the close of seeking The beacon of hope that dispels perdition’s haze Thus the sky lies set ablaze In the shadow of our dying days May this light banish all sombre nights And set you on your way

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 25, 2025