Under the Fading Light

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My body lies Still 'neath the weeping boughs No wounds mark my flesh No sickness sought my death Years left me cold and hollow A life of loss and sorrow No will left to walk on I give my life to the dying sun No golden halls to welcome me home Black silence is now all I know Seasons long past deprived me, of all I loved My torn homeland, left behind so long ago My king and queen, long lost to the sea My wife and child, slain before me Alone in this winter, I stood the last The last of my kin None now left, now I am gone None now live to remember our fall Memories fading Darkness encroaching My skin cold, my eyes closed My grief laid to rest No golden halls to welcome me home Black silence is now all I know

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 25, 2025

Blinded by the dark Imprisoned by the night Internal fire gone cold Hope cast from my soul Pale lies the mist Clouding my eyes Bereft of sleep's embrace No heed to my silent cries Staggering through a black haze The rain, a curtain of cold grey A fell day, no hope for the 'morrow Drowning 'neath my veil of sorrow Despair haunting my waking hours In silence so cold Mourning all I've ever known Left to hunger, alone Shadows beyond my sight Respite beyond my reach Gasping for air to breathe Drowning in my own grief I wander these woods Their grace, my solace Shade under falling leaves Naught but a hollow peace The morning light wavers Faintly through the trees My burden never free As darkness surrounds me Staggering through a black haze The rain, a curtain of cold grey A fell day, no hope for the 'morrow Drowning 'neath my veil of sorrow

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

We are the fallen We are the victorious dead The first in line At the gates of death Slain in battle Our lives lost not in vain Here we shall see no dawn Now at the end All shall come to light The atrocities committed By the ones we were sworn to The heinous acts we performed In their names without knowledge And now we must pay No rebirth, no dawn With regret, with remorse We are turned away from the halls Destined to be cast in flame The burning depths await With a cry and a shout I turn to my brethren No, we will not go We will atone for our crimes We were the fallen We were the victorious dead Slain in the line of duty A duty only now fully known Only now in death do we see The evil we were sworn to And we shall return at dawn And we have returned With vengeance In place of loyalty We march on their palace One hundred across And one hundred back We issue a challenge Come forth and test our vengeance

The snow falls silently 'cross the coomb The wind's howl echoing through the crags Alone I watch the season's throes Here at world's end where no life roams North of sun's light Under a winter's moon In pale white night A blissful solitude Far away from fear, love, hate Memories too faint to feel pain Alone, I, whisper to the cold Here, at one with soil and stone These dead mountains I call home To these bleak woods I speak my woes Above barren lands, under godless skies Here I remain until I die For days immemorial Reflecting on uncounted years Hearing the cries of friend and foe Watching the death of the world below Shadows taunt my name Oathbreaker, exile, forsaken Shade no longer my shelter Voices pull me from my slumber I once looked upon the plains I once spoke the names of the world I once walked without fear I once knew love Wandering far from here Away from this cursed gloom Returning to distant memories Flames that burn anew Along frozen lakeshores Across seas of ice Daylight welcomes me home South of winter's bite These dead mountains I call home To these bleak woods I speak my woes Above barren lands, under godless skies Here I return when I die

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

The veil of night creeps closer Smothering the distant hills Fear now will roam the darkness In this forsaken land No more will the day hold back the night Hope no longer restraining the blight No more will the sun caress thy skin Only the pale moon remains, both boon and bane Shards of twilight pierce the gloom Woodlands void of all that moves Silence falls upon the empty vales Black whispers drift across the winds No shelter from the end of life Despair to all under the fading light Those who traverse these haunted woods Tell tales of towns, left bleak and cold Of slaughtered folk, of deserted homes Of beasts that lust for blood and bone The shadow descends upon shallow graves Awakening ghouls of a forgotten age Howls tear through the silent forests Padded footsteps echo through the mist No safety left in the haunts of man These fiends rule this darkened realm Silence falls upon the empty vales Black whispers drift across the winds No shelter from the end of life Despair to all under the fading light Flee or fight, all will be consumed No morning will rise, this night be thy doom

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 25, 2025

And there she lies, broken on the grass Awaiting the moments til her life is gone Her father weeps by her side Torn by anguish He holds her hand tightly As she slowly slips away A starless sky above Once the reflection of her life Never to see the lights again Now that she has died A starless sky above Once the reflection of her life Never to see the lights again Now that she has died Cursed to live in darkness We've lost what once was our guide Will we ever know peace again Now that she has died One by one they fade Each extinguished by the dripping of her blood Only the moon will remain Alone in a starless sky How could they do this How could they end the lights of the night Why would they do this Condemning us to live under a blackened sky Give me back my daughter Give us back the stars Grant me my revenge Now that she has died

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

What have we done? Why are we forsaken? The prophet speaks Of the God's deception On a chilly night Seeking answers in the fire The look on his face Pale with fear He speaks of a storm Of a terrifying light He speaks of death Of a final epic fight He whispers of fires Like none we've ever seen The end of time All will die So I set off on a journey To the lands we once knew There I will find the truth With a full-score of warriors with me We awaited the sun And on the edge of the earth I see the Ethereal Storm A sky filled with endless wings to herald our doom A march upon our existence with genocide as their goal I set alight a flame, may it guide us through the dark And at that very moment I curse the Gods A sign of our faith Of our will to live I raise my sword to the sky To pledge an oath To protect all life Though it will mean my death And onwards we rode Into the eye of the storm Our heads held high And we shall know no fear Come fight me Angdroth And Visier and Visior O Gods of the Earth Come meet my blade I have seen the image of the end A face bathed in blood and a scorched world to behold Spears have been rattled and swords unsheathed I do not stand alone as I challenge our gods And on the edge of the earth I see the ethereal storm A sky filled with endless wings to herald our doom A march upon our existence with genocide as their goal I set alight a flame, may it guide us through the dark See the world burn See the world on fire Humanity is crushed All that which once was great Is now nought but ashes and earth We fought And we lost Curse the Gods See the world burn See the world on fire

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025