Given to the Rising

We stand encircled by wing and fire Our deepest ties return and turn upon us The shrouded reason, the bleeding answer The human plague in womb Bring clouds of war Let us rest Our future breed is the last In the conscience waits Dreams of the new sun We're blood in the dust Given to the Rising Through this we claw roots Of trees in the world of iron Our fathers steps fueled the boiling sea The wretched harvest reaped by the hands of dawning Our pain cannot forgive the silent machine of the fatal flaw in man That brings us to the end

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

In the thoughts of time we are of sand With aphasic songs the ratios are blind A lucid air deletes the sound The water slows to receive you The lantern guides to the evil As a weapon forms of the dawn The air reeks of foul play Inscribe your fears in the soil The sea is foul Like worms in your heart Consume an age old Of forgery and deceit At the center we will find you Falling prey to its lustre

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

I saw God in death through you Most things we'll never know The darkest water runs in The feasting cancerous The questions burn in cages Of a masterless life of disease All that feel the warning see to will its steeds Of black to cut us down Of white to light our sound Of red to burn and drown And grey to spread like ash to the ground

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

The land here absorbs light Inverting false hopes to night Fault lines of reason shake thin Grit erodes a skein of earth To rise and become of use A relentless motion of tongue Deflower the nature of light Deflower the nature of water Realize, reflect, and refract leagues and layers grow deeper Like roots into the ocean The wellspring is nailed to a chain A lost and binding dream Carving a reckless control Of the knives hanging clean From a wild and innocent grace Stars black the blood of silence The lightning shears the heart Fall unto

I remember the fear I remember the taste Isolation Reflection A distant echoed howl Blood on the ground Shadows moving on me Tension Animal Response Blind eyes dawning and watching the wreckage The life fades to silver My engine's burning To bring me to them I'm walking to the eternal lake of light

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Through the eyes I have known you Your spirit is stretched thin Your veil is a hole Stream a dark tide's betrayal That rips through its own Through the eyes of the wheel I will see you coming Through the waves of lies I will see you coming Through the years of burden I will see you coming Through the weathering vine I will see you coming The feral now feeds you Instinct is pure All reactions are sane Eyes on the mountain Hidden faces Spirit faces

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

The stitch in our eye With roots deep within The soil stained with blood Of those who rose before the time Dirt relies on our test Tied to the resolving design Distance varies though the ways bring us all Feeders seething woe is them The volted antenna saints that will the fire The hand is gnawed The end is nigh The warriors remain and they bring us to the sky We'll burn in the sun And we'll fall to the moon

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

A swarm devours the heart The seed burns where it lay build designs of none Roots have poisoned the clay A flame tongued blade Opens holes in the sky You stand holding the gate They've all drowned in the flood Sun-whitened bones In a landscape of hounds The bound shade a light To disperse the stars We watch, we watch It is of the moon It is all of the moon In this weather we must build fire Distill Break them all down Distill Tear them all apart

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

The words of gods lie among us In the glazed clay of ruin At the source of subtle bodies to know the sky And how it was hammered into place Where all graces are electric And the days are all nine And the nights are all nine All nine

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

All my spirits come through we when I bleed A fractured skull in a desert well, I leave this disturbed, destroyed child will follow you A wild and wounded beast I stand inside the sun My heart let memories flood my mind All the fixed, breathing strobes in the waking hours The clouds are looming to remind me of the judgement passed on my soul Acid stars have scarred my mind and left me as a ghost I shattered my curse and spread it through the land I wander guilded, willing, and unclean Project dark eyes sullen, drawn out and wicked Nameless lights pull me into a reflected psychic black hole

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025