The Periapt Of Absence
The dark mirrors of my ruin My downfall as our worlds divide And the hollow moon in sorrow hides A dance of shadows in peril Through eternity's Lethean guise Evanesced, sinking in these visionary tides Gaze not upon these tempest peaks As they stare with callous haste And the gallows sing my last lament By the famished ghost of our dying day And I see your wilted silhouette Under the starlight's tender gleam Through a drapery of tears (Of tears) Drifting into everlasting sleep Knelt before my fallen self in a perilous bliss In the crashing rain and weight of regret For you I gift my final breath My love, my oath, my death And I'll write across these pallid, forsaken skies The wavering beauty of your name This tomb, a sanctum in her arms Where all is lost and all else fades Here I've not much left to give With hopes but a grain of sand As nightfall looms so swiftly And the final curtain descends
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
Soaring are the restless screams Weightless through the dismal pale These silent gales serene And from the deepening gloom The thrashing tides on which I sail The moonlight drips upon my skin, my destiny unveiled On the back of burned, dispirited wings The weight of dread enshrouds The voyage within my dreams In the grip of lightless slumber A nightingale unto me speaks A whisper of mortality Cast unto the boundless sea And I lie powerless before the sullen ether's cry In the reverie of a dying wish Buried beneath the dust of the stars we held Cometh thee, seal my lips eternal with one last kiss Here I'll leave this vale, a futile hand to the windowpane A voice among the ruins of a fallen masquerade And from this timeworn page within my cold grasp torn How softly the words doth fade away And I lie motionless, surrendered to a barren sky In the reverie of a dying wish Buried beneath the dust of the stars we held Cometh thee, seal my lips eternal with one last kiss Here I'll leave this vale, a futile hand to the windowpane A voice among the ruins of a fallen masquerade And from this timeworn page within my cold grasp torn How softly the words doth fade away In fragmentary loss of soul and sanity My hopes descend And shatter the visage I hold in vain Suspended within the firmament's rage In repose, I touch your luring presence This darkened, starless image disdained And shatter the visage I hold in vain A voice among the ruins of a fallen masquerade And from this timeworn page within my cold grasp torn How softly the words doth fade away
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
Paradise to dust I lie within this endless dream Bereft of the seraph's touch A silhouette, a vision The fallen angel I grieve Under distant skies I walk alone Where light evades and silence breathes Her bitter rain to bless my skin Washing the mire from my eyes To rise from the depths Where darkness sleeps within Blood stains the stone bеtrayed Where thе spirit of my heart lies This temple forever burned, burning inside On the face of broken pillars A scarlet threnody of days gone cold Etched with the thorns pulled from my chest Here rests our sorrows nevermore At the throat of the world I kneel Where burden fills the voiceless air And from its crest drip frozen tears Flooding this forgotten vale A ballad of sundered wings Of memory's pale splendor The ruins of my defeat Blood stains the stone betrayed Where the spirit of my heart lies This temple forever burned, burning inside On the face of broken pillars A scarlet threnody of days gone cold Etched with the thorns pulled from my chest Here dies our sorrows evermore Paradise to dust I lie within this endless dream Bereft of the seraph's touch A silhouette, a vision The fallen angel I grieve Under distant skies I walk alone Where light evades and silence breathes
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
And deeper, deeper I fall In the dark of this delusive sea Whose waters know me well The voices within "Let it enfold you" I hear them sing My sweet sorrow In a beloved caress with capturing eyes It steals the breath from my lungs Drowning to hold onto what isn't real To find what cannot be found To find what cannot be found And distant, I wake to see No shelter around me to confine No stars nor direction to guide Only my shadow silently beside A fading image of you A lost touch of heaven An apparition in the desеrt sun Merely a figment of my hopеless imagination
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
When the sky burns out the sun A quiet stare Masks the coming night I roam Untrodden halls in search of you Whose whispers upon my heart do they write With this periapt I hold to my chest And a wounded stare Behind my eyes I'll carve into the wilderness The tale of you and I A restless cry in a sea of aeons lost A reflection in the dying light (Light) Your spectral voice echoes to me Through the falling autumn leaves Sevеring the embitterеd veil As my spirit wanes beneath With these tears I've long beheld The dream fades before my eyes I'll carve into the walls of your heart the words of thine I'll follow you through the silence Of the earth's decaying guise May it evermore haunt the path we laid This tale of you and I Reaching to the starless void above With idle hands that long again to find A restless cry in a sea of aeons lost A reflection in the dying light Through pale meadows that without hope lie Where time in solitude rests I'll sail these seas of eternity At the world's forgotten end And though upon these broken shores Wash the sorrows of my name I'll love you forever, forever all the same
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
I ask myself in this absence of dawn As the cold wind howls the tragedy of my pain And the mourning sun weeps from the barrow In memory of golden aeons aflame "How long must I travel this pathless flight? How long until the sun riseth again?" I weep before the ashes of our fallen Elysium "Take me now, thine blessed hells of my dismay" A grieving gaze from the apex With despairing cry Weakened and forlorn In the arms of this fateful night O' dreaded winter hours Enshroud me in your mist Fill this deathlеss ocean with tears Caress mе now this bitter breath Where no shed of light dare pierce A gallery of forsaken tracks The echoing voice behind these closing walls Where demons cloud my waking view And a deeper shade of darkness falls Watching as the earth fell silent (Silent) Through the stillness of empty eyes A stream of weakness and defeat Spilled from the veins Of these blood-burnished skies With no words to escape my lips A grieving gaze from the apex With despairing cry Weakened and forlorn In the arms of this fateful night In the arms of this fateful night O' dreaded winter hours Enshroud me in your mist Fill this deathless ocean with tears Caress me now this bitter breath Where no shed of light dare pierce A gallery of forsaken tracks Her fading voice within these closing walls Where the angel decays in my dying view And a deeper shade of darkness falls
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
In the still of eventide lie two lovers torn Who gaze upon the waning moon oceans apart Where between us rests a veil of shattered glass And within us a hell of cold and idle hearts Here it rains forever Where I feel your presence still And over the wake of my spirit's fall Lies the darkening of heaven Where our silhouettes gather Once more embraced for their final dance In lament of beauty, the sorrows of thine A portrait of pale remembrance By the howls of a dream profound The falling of departed suns I stare beyond her spectral eyes in breathless adoration I drink the twilight's glare Whose deafening silence speaks The tempestuous sepulchers of all that has forsaken me In the dust of eventide lie two hearts reborn Who gaze upon the waning moon tethered with scars Where between us rests a veil of memories passed And until we meet again I'll carry you upon burdened hands Here it rains forever Where I feel your presence still And over the wake of my spirit's fall Lies the darkening of heaven Where our silhouettes gather Once more embraced for their final dance In lament of beauty, the sorrows of thine A portrait of pale remembrance
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026
Under the shadow of a lost sun Where dust adorns my yearning palms And empty thrones embed the sod The whispering wind carves Through the pale of misery's bane Our world eclipsed in the pall of night In the solitude of a broken and ruined age The enigma that haunts The maze of my stillborn dreams By a distant calling, beseeched Our fragile hands depart In a garden of promise Sheltered from the lustrous light Sleep now and forever The beating of my stricken heart The angels of heaven fall A weeping of desolate skies collapsed My unreality, a labyrinth of afflicted soul In the exiled oblivion of my anguish The stars bade their last farewell And the spirit turns to stone To this grandeur I succumb Fragmented to familiar realms alone To this grandeur I succumb Fragmented to familiar realms alone The isles of Gaia fall The broken bones below the soil ache There is no more a path Left within these harrowed plains Where the melancholy waters flow As crystal through stiffened veins And the ghosts of all I have failed to be Lay severed and slain Unremembered and cold Adrift in an ocean of painted grey A perennial slumber entraps my eyes Like darkness to a dying flame Like darkness to a dying flame
Submitted by NecroLord — Jun 25, 2026