Canto VII

Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!, cominciò Pluto con la voce chioccia; e quel savio gentil, che tutto seppe, disse per confortarmi: «Non ti noccia la tua paura; ché, poder ch'elli abbia, non ci torrà lo scender questa roccia.» Poi si rivolse a quella 'nfiata labbiaùe disse "taci maledetto lupo!" Consuma dentro te con la tua rabbia Non è sanza cagion l'andare al cupo vuolsi ne l'alto là dove Michele fè la vendetta del superbo strupo"

Submitted by Morgoth — Nov 16, 2025

In the daily frenzy, bored tired eyes peer at bright screens, sunk in the monotony of a programmed reality. But beneath the shiny surface of urban life, there is something that escapes sight, a truth hidden in the shade. Crowded streets turn into a labyrinth of deception, smiling faces of the ads reveal their true nature, showing invisible threads of a power behind the scenes. Fight for truth has begun Fight for blindness ignorance Fight for freedom has begun against self-satisfaction Fight for truth has begun, voices are rising In the dusk of control, the hope does not crumble. Master the shadows of deception, we see freedom in our rebellious gaze. In the shining city, slaves to a predefined destiny, Eyes closed, souls hibernating, teetering stride. Crowded streets are labyrinths of lies, In the distorted world, only the beholder sees. Crowded streets turn into a labyrinth of deception, smiling faces of the ads reveal their true nature, showing invisible threads of a power behind the scenes. Fight for truth has begun Fight for blindness ignorance fight for freedom has begun against self-satisfaction Fight for truth has begun, voice are rises In the dusk of control, the hope does not crumble. Master the shadows of deception, we see freedom in our rebellious gaze. Fight for freedom fight for rights in a void of desperation eyes closed, souls dying only the beholder sees

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

Hate, skillfully generated by the daily pursuit of perfection Compassion, hermetically sealed in a body devoid of consciousness Welcome hopeless century Let me introduce you to this new circle of hell Here is the suffering city, here is the eternal pain Here is the way that runs among the people lost I walk helplessly through the icy limbo of indifference My spirit is surrounded by horrified gazes A hundred thousand souls emptied of All the feelings they lived for Welcome hopeless century Let me introduce you to this new circle of hell Into which not even the supreme Dante would dare to cross The Border It’s not a dream, this is reality Evil is Us and we are perpetrating it How long has it been since we stopped to reflect Or we paused in our rush toward The Void But you don't have time, you have to run in the desert of global indifference “Shoot, edit and share” The Holy Trinity of The Sacred Theater of Nothingness Welcome hopeless century Let me introduce you to this new circle of hell “Shoot, edit and share”

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

Crowded streets cry out for change Squares turning red with the blood of revolution Industry’s vassals Dictators lead the masses to a vain glory Despots servants of the ideology of an equality that should rightfully belong to us They command, order, guide, teach To men whose conscience is choked with hunger. Like eternal children in search of a father We chase our every need Without realizing that as long as we always need a taskmaster We will never be truly free Free to choose, free to die, free to make mistakes, Inebriated by ideologies praise social progress Mauled each other like enraged wolves protecting their territory The Wolves of Yalta after having sated They share their prey, they observe, They hone their senses To see who is the most afraid to smell each others They lick their wounds as they're watching the enemies carcasses They keep their children away waiting for them to disappear into the earth As they lay their, their flayed bones as boundary markers But time passes the rain wash And resumes the magical cycle The squares are empty, The streets are deserted We have been made to believe that freedom is a right Keeping us slaves in our comforts The children of the Wolves of Yalta stunned us with their stupefying illusions For each there is a destiny For each there is an end But it was they who decided it not you And you are smug about it sitting on your cosy couch With your white strip of well-being in front of you to inhale produced in the laboratories of rhetoric from the ashes of past ideologies. They say progressivism rather than slavery… …because that might awaken our slumbering consciences The Wolves of Yalta are distant black-and-white memories Wielding the invisible forces that keep the balance Silent chains unwinding in our small daily addictions.

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

Let me introduce myself I am your only God Master of your mind and all your thoughts I am made in your image and likeness And just like you, I don't care about humanity You are the brilliant and seductive prince of a kingdom made of self-centeredness Screw them all, I am the best, You are the best I praise your success Omnipresent, in a million different forms Listen to your God, I am your God Have no fear, I am always here Listen to your God, I am your God I am the one who gives your daily satisfaction, I protect your childish weaknesses I turn your failures into accusations toward everyone around you Smile before the magic mirror that casts you into the fairy realm of those like you please yourself by yourself Locked up in the sterile emoticons’ expressions Omnipresent in a million different forms Listen to your God, I am your God Have no fear, I am always here Listen to your God, I am your God Listen to your one God Hide yourself from the world and its truths' Living with transparency costs too much and makes you weak It may bring down the castle of lies you have built day after day And the more' you build the more' you don't realize Listen to your one God Like Icarus you plummet into the void along with the fools who accompany you Without realizing that time is running out and you are falling into an abyss of madness -------- You (are) my most faithful slave, I am master of your life, I dominate you with the illusion of being the best I own you with the chains of egoism I am your lord, you will have no other god but me I will have more and more slaves to subdue While you fall smiling and happy into the hell I created for all of you Omnipresent in a million different forms Listen to your God, I am your God Have no fear, I am always here Listen to your God, I am your God

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Hypnotized by the screen's cold glow, the world does decay, Surrounded by soulless pixels, reality fades away. Endless notifications, bind us in chains, We're ensnared into their grip, we're lost, our free waned. Within the digital spell, where reality is betrayed, Devoured by the screens, undressed, our lives are displayed. In search of assent, our true selves fade, false identities, playing god, our identities are defaced. Amidst the digital abyss, in the shadows we're consumed, By the horrors of technology, our lives are endlessly entombed. Under the spell of devices, minds slowly bend and sway, Reality is distorted, as we to our screens obey. In virtual solitude, our spirits are seduced, Lost on the web, our identities are reduced. A grim future unfolds, as society crumbles away, In the screens' relentless pull, we silently decay.

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025

Cut off from the world I walk alone in my depressive state and I see everyone smiling at each other It seems that everyone around me Shares a smile and that kills me Because no one shares one with me You are continuing to ask for help without anyone hearing you Not interested, you’re just a name on a Facebook page Resign yourself Resign yourself No one doesn't care if you have a problem or a difficult life You will never receive a smile They are all busy making their lives painful I stare at the wall in front of me while everyone celebrates their lives I think about my past and what I achieved You are continuing to ask for help without anyone hearing you Not interest, you’re just a name on a Facebook page Resign yourself acid the glass of the wine in my hands I have to drink it to stay sober I can't get drunk on poison the one that takes you to the dirtiest places You have a loaded gun pointed at your head They are just waiting for you to pull the trigger they wait to your death to tell you that they love you Do I really deserve to live in (a) rotten world? Resign Cut off from the world I walk alone and I see everyone smiling at each other It seems that everyone around me Shares a smile and that, that kills me No one shares with me

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Outside this world, I walk with my faithful eternal loneliness. I see people smiling and joking but behind their back they hide a fucking knife. I feel alone in this hollow world, I would have a lot to give. I don't digest falsehood, hypocrisy. I hold it all inside and then throw up. Falsehood, vomit, hypocrisy The world doesn't care who has a problem, it's fucking Sparta backstabbers, ass lickers, pretenders I stare at the wall in front of me as everyone celebrates together. Waiting, drinking, thinking memories have soured the wine. I have to drink to stay sober. Walking alone I get drunk on poison to survive! I feel alone in this hollow world, I would have a lot to give and none to take Falsehood, vomit, hypocrisy I stare at the wall in front of me as everyone celebrates together. Waiting, drinking, thinking memories have soured the wine. I have to drink to stay sober. Walking alone I get drunk on poison to survive! I don't ask for help … nobody! I don't care to be a name on a fucking social I don't ask for help … no one! I don't care to be a photo on a fucking social I don't ask for help … nobody! Only those who have convenient answers I don't ask for help … no one! I walk with my eternal loneliness. Behind my back the scars I hide I don’t care if they hurt twice on my way I turn the page from the social cage we’re in, I have to escape

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

We are lost navigators in an endless ocean of images With no north star to guide us when night falls We feel only anxiety rising untamed and sinuous like a cat in heat While loneliness sits on the throne rationality rules our emotions. Cruel ruler mistress of darkness princess of our every weakness Forces our senses to mate with each other in a hellish Sabbath That muffles our cries for help in the moan of pleasure. Deprived of what really made us human beings Each man was something imperfect and unique within himself, something in common with others with something to share to complete those in front of him to complete those in front of him to complete those in front of him to complete those in front of him to complete those in front of me Macabre dance devoid of color where sadness dances over the corpses of our passions Instinct beats time in this orgy of souls hypnotized by the illusion of cosmic perfection

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Unknown man Speaks to the world Sucking in your trust A trap in every word War for territory War for territory Choice control Behind propaganda Poor information To manage your anger War for territory War for territory Dictators' speech Blasting off your life Rule to kill the urge Dumb asshole speech Years of fighting Teaching my son To believe in that man Racist human being Racist ground will live Shame and regret Of the pride You've once possessed War for territory War for territory

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025