The Gates of Nether
[Spoken word]<br/> <br/> At long last I have reached the end<br/> The gates beckon me, in all their glory.<br/> I stand here, a man - not a father, not a brother, not a friend<br/> Am I even a man?<br/> Might this be the beginning?<br/> <br/> I see a lifetime, or perhaps many lifetimes<br/> Were they worth living?<br/> I see many choices<br/> Right or wrong, would they have always lead to this?<br/> Perhaps this is a return?<br/> It does feel like going homeward...<br/> In all its torturous glory, may I see a home?
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
[Spoken word]<br/> <br/> Infinte sands, each grain a scalding memory.<br/> I wonder at the arenaceous kaleidoscope of eternity.<br/> Surely, this cannot be the result of one lifetime?<br/> All of this painful persisting perseverance.<br/> All of this brilliant beauty beyond belief.<br/> For whose eyes is this?<br/> Prophecy must be at play...<br/> <br/> Looking back, I cannot recall the course which I have taken.<br/> Am I lost or was I never on a path to begin with?<br/> This travelling burdenless recalls a retreat.<br/> Are my steps merely a form of defiance?<br/> An imposed pilgrimage would burden any soul.<br/> Yet... I feel light as a feather.<br/> Perhaps I might have been discarded?<br/> No longer needed in this dichotomy everlasting...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Instrumental
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Instrumental
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
[Spoken word]<br/> <br/> Witnessing every form of creation,<br/> I am now in black,<br/> In void.<br/> My thoughts escaping and returning,<br/> They exult in my company.<br/> I wonder if they are even my own...<br/> No matter, as piercing through the abyss I see it staring.<br/> A colossal image, an avatar,a form...<br/> Of everything that was ever written.<br/> Of everything that was ever spoken.<br/> And so I ever wonder, is this my own?<br/> Is this me?<br/> <br/> I see the sun once again.<br/> Every devotee smiling back at me, joining in song.<br/> What do you intend to show me?<br/> Must my eyes burn for revelation?<br/> Must my ears deafen for gnosis?<br/> Perhaps my reimmersion into the land of the sands be more fruitful this time...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Instrumental
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Instrumental
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
[Spoken word]<br/> <br/> I have walked with eternity.<br/> But I have long wondered...<br/> What is a pilgrimage without its destination?<br/> A cycle needs an end...<br/> <br/> The everlasting sands... gone.<br/> In their place, an unknown gratuitous display of advancement.<br/> This foreign landscape... I can no longer see, no longer hear, no longer feel.<br/> <br/> For all I have seen, heard, felt, I can no longer be bound to ignorant bliss.<br/> I have walked, graced by every question and I have become the embodiment of answer.<br/> Wearing every name and every face, ever-transient, I am home.<br/> With no head to lay here, I can only weep.<br/> I am home.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026