In a Pallid Shadow
Set out on your journey; you're now in exile They label and define you away Passive and complicit all the while You readily rot and decay Now cast to a cult of lepers Your only route to salvation Always recovering, but never better Acquiesce to your ablation Shedding skin, to become one of them Mind and body quickly become a wreck Removing limbs, purging self of sin Hang the albatross around your neck Is this really who you want to be? At the mercy of grifters and fools They say you’re sick, rife with disease You’re to blame for the harm that ensues Yes, you’re ill, but will you get well Taking all these steps to nowhere? Reducing you to a mere shell They will break you in the name of care Shedding skin, to become one of them Mind and body quickly become a wreck Removing limbs, purging self of sin Hang the albatross around your neck Is this really who you want to be? At the mercy of grifter's and fools They say you’re sick, rife with disease You’re to blame for the harm that ensues I implore you, find resolve within You’re full of light and standing tall Make a new beginning, not an end And know I’ll be there if you fall Shedding skin, to become one of them Mind and body quickly become a wreck Removing limbs, purging self of sin Hang the albatross around your neck Is this really who you want to be? At the mercy of grifter's and fools They say you’re sick, rife with disease You’re to blame for the harm that ensues Break the chains, break the chains Be free from suffering, don’t hide from the pain Break the chains, break the chains Reject their ways, don’t accept their blame Is this what you thought you would be? In the company of liars and thieves Thoughtless invaders of the mind You’re no good down on your knees
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 27, 2026
She awoke me from a slumber deep Confused: “Why aren’t you next to me?” My mind was hazy, as if in a dream As the land outside began to freeze Ashes of the world around my feet Isolated, deranged, feeling weak Crying and begging to be free (to free what? should this be ‘be’ free?) As a lonely snow falls upon me She looked at me with love in her eyes And said what we had would never die (never...what? missing a final word here?) Did not believе that I could destroy a life Until the night shе began to cry Ashes of the world around my feet Isolated, deranged, feeling weak Crying and begging to be free same as above As a lonely snow falls upon me Nothing can grow Only the glow Of falling snow If it must be so Death, they say, is not the end And desolation is my ancient friend My voice howls in the frigid wind And I know I cannot do this again Ashes of the world around my feet Isolated, deranged, feeling weak Crying and begging to be free as above As a lonely snow falls upon me Nothing can grow Only the glow Of falling snow If it must be so Ashes of the world around my feet Isolated, deranged, feeling weak Crying and begging to free As a lonely snow falls upon me I do believe What has befallen me Color blast through the ice How dare you? I defy the light I go into the night As a lonely snow falls upon me
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 27, 2026
Moments Frozen in time Pages of pictures from a life A grey so sublime Drawn to a world of monochrome design Half-remembered days play like actors on a stage There is a meaning behind the tales they tell themselves The light which they borrow comes from somewhere else Dancing in a pallid shadow, a gleam of indigo The feeling of a long summer’s twilight, sepia A lover’s embrace bathеd in regal red and gold Color burns into an image of a timе before, a time of its own I stir from within For I’ll never be without A world painted From a well of color A violet sunset shimmers over a field of green Emerald waves across the mountainside Feeling swept away, they will not be denied Whether or not they are my own, I cannot define A vivid monochrome With a life all its own Wanting to be known Demanding my eyes fall across its brilliant form
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 27, 2026
The bold know of fortune’s favor Unrestricted, they drain the well Surreptitiously they savor Slaking a thirst they may never quell I will see what can be Viewed from outside the body Throw open the doors Of the shadow palace Shift my gaze near What do I hear? From obscured to clear Now I see my fear Crumbling upon me Reality unfolding Abandoned, overcome How will I find my way home? Brilliant, dark, shining, I see without my eyes Thick walls lining my mind to my surprise With speed I design a living prison cell All knowledge combined, full viеw of my own hell Shrill voice crying, I hear mysеlf defy My own finding, only to question why A void howling, lacking causality Time progress stalling, 8 hours of eternity Something has become me I have become What have you done? You, who stand before me And will remain in the aftermath When all numbers add to One And all vectors approach Infinity Will you not implore me? To walk with you To walk our chosen path A beast of many faces Drink from your shattered chalice A visionary of vicious design 8 hours of eternity
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 27, 2026
He was feeling numb inside In the year when he arrived It was 1793 Unmoved by what he would see Their plan laid out centuries in advance Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance Observing from the 4th dimension Until the moment of their ascension 12 stoic warriors gazing through history Tragic events, on the periphery A fatal mistake set the universe burning The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling He stood watching the father He upset the order And now the boy would die Sending the timeline awry Their plan laid out centuries in advance Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance Observing from the 4th dimension Until the moment of their ascension 12 stoic warriors gazing through history Tragic events, on the periphery A fatal mistake set the universe burning The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling Why am I so cold? Am I drowning? Freezing, can’t feel my limbs I was dying, now this is the end A flash in the black water A strange, onyx angel saves me and my father No, wait, who is this man? Who dragged me into the night from my bed He is not my father Where is my father? I would do anything for him No risk is too great, any means to this end Another died but I can save his life Perhaps ease the sorrow of my wife I’ll make sure he’s well I’ll return him, I swear Just to see his face again No more suffering for him He is not my father No, he is my father Free me from the amber Where is my daughter? Their plan laid out centuries in advance Esoteric enemies, no one stood a chance Observing from the 4th dimension Until the moment of their ascension 12 stoic warriors gazing through history Tragic events, on the periphery A fatal mistake set the universe burning The earth trembles, reality’s unraveling
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Jun 27, 2026