Winged Waltz

Saw you there, in a field out that way Sun was setting perfectly, adorned a mask Visage outshining the day White dress - dancing, ablaze in your spotlight Cicadas from a halo, gentle coercion Forcing day into night Forcing day into a night Insect eclipse - frail wings that claim the heavens Swarm eating bliss - a screeching symphony, came and went Existence now a silhouette White dress - dancing, ablaze in your spotlight Cicadas from a halo, gentle coercion Forcing day into night Lingering doubt of the end - no longer stands Destruction - threads woven by a single hand We stitch our necks to the branch All thing undone, feet wave like pendulum Six legs - crawling back To play me a song

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

There is a light, somewhere across the sea In brilliant stride, glimmering star it seems Speaking in a radiant pulse, the wondrous path in cryptic gleam Glimmering star it seems This is the code, oh this I know Illuminate to reveal a meaning, somehow This fleeting sense of purpose, it cascades Dusting off the ash To become, no longer afraid Caught in trance, purity with vantablack, intertwined they dance An ensemble, our rapture, perfect incandescence, o' sleepless sun The watchful siren of perilous seas, she laughs and sinks with me These stones and rope, bound to my limbs Like words - never said again Can we speak, through waves of sight and sound? Or are we frail, like a god uncrowned O' sleepless sun, this is not our time O' sleepless sun, this is not our time An ensemble, our rapture, perfect incandescence, o' sleepless sun Still caught in trance, purity with vantablack, intertwined they dance This is the code, oh this I know Illuminate to reveal a meaning, somehow An ensemble, our rapture, perfect incandescence, o' sleepless sun

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

No need to wonder why The blood flows in burning tides Through the gutter that is your veins It keeps you awake, keeps you aflame The moment of respite, brought the splendor of hate Premonition savored like the stranger's embrace Sacred is nothing, give it all up The soul, even the body Free-will destroyed Fill the omnipresent void Sacred is nothing, give it all up The soul, even the body Free-will destroyed Fall into insouciance An earthquake passes without attention Sewers of red now turning grey Nowhere is my shelter and home No need to worry now You just have to let go Release the soul, even the body You have to let go It keeps you awake, keeps you aflame Plagues crafted, from gold Silver, our light when darkness unfolds At the mercy of mournful eyes Awaiting the call Bittersweet, effigy Recited by us all A sanctuary of promises Now left behind, abandon me The gift of warmth The sun surrounds To burn the memory No need to wonder why The blood flows in burning tides Through the gutter that is your veins It keeps you awake, keeps you aflame

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

A question ignite Triggers a massive scale Lifting every stone Leaving nothing untouched Feelings arouse to overwhelm Reaching through, reaching through the dark Searching the stars on the darkening skies Clouds thickens to total black The sky prepare for battle Thoughts come close to deluge Excess the presence for the fallen But still there are mountains unclimbed Finding more pain to absorb To endure in hope, in hope for a meaning Reaching through, reaching through the dark Searching the stars on the darkening skies Clouds thickens to total black The sky prepare for battle Decay in the dark unforgiving In these surroundings we are enslaved A question ignite Triggers a massive scale Lifting every stone Envy for the ones that are living Sympathy for the lost, for the lost and blackened Reaching through, reaching through the dark Searching the stars on the darkening skies Clouds thickens to total black The sky prepare for battle

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

I share my tears for my fallen dreams That have lost their shape in shame A leash on my heart restraining me From reaching my dreams from within Fading into the darkness Searching to fill the void inside Lying trembling on the floor Demons crying out of the darkness below Chained to the bottom, nursed by the cold Silence in dispute with hungry rage A calm form of turmoil Where do the demons live? Why do you fear the night? Am I the reason why you run and hide? The darkness that lives in me Can't leave, I will never be free Chained to the bottom, nursed by the cold Silence in dispute with hungry rage Chained to the bottom, nursed by the cold Silence in dispute with hungry rage A calm form of turmoil Where do the demons live?

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025

Unsought, a slumber for weary eyes Bring forth all reflections, shrouding the aimless Here I am, forgetting to breath Once more caught in this reverie Where I simply ceased to be Forgetting to breath Embracing the cold, smiles lost in life's rapturous fold Surrender at the waking hour Hearts breaking with the dawn Defeat, nostalgia beckoning To fall just for the stars Here I am, forgetting to breath Once more caught in this reverie Where I simply ceased to be Forgetting to breath A mesmerizing spectacle The sun and I, are we not the same at all? The burning wheel, the archetype Of constant rise Of constant fall Unsought, a slumber for weary eyes Bring forth all reflection, shrouding the aimless mind Here I am, forgetting to breath Once more caught in this reverie Where I simply ceased to be Forgetting to breath

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025

An ode to those Drowning in a sea of dreams The few that know The feeling Something always missing Sheer pressure of existing When the emptiness comes It's hard to be whole You have been replaced, although It's bitterness that linger - in the place you once called home Lost in the garden Where only darkness seems to grow The sight that captivates - amiss Stealing a breath The eyes that resuscitate In the bloom of death No, you are never alone Lost in the garden Where only darkness seems to grow Lost in the garden Where only darkness seems to grow You are not alone Waiting for the feathers to fall Drag your feet, hang your head, walk along the walls In this labyrinth of thorns What is left? What is right? Where memories are born - just to lose their light The hand that led you here is not to blame The grip, the warmth, the smile, the fear Something always missing The iron in the name It was always hidden, can't you see? When I disappear, promise that you'll find me Where the sky and ocean meet

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Tides of October washed over me again Like a choir of whispers that wakes in me as the dark arrives Year after year, building my black coffins under falling leaves With rusted nails, among the rusted trees And I cannot hide These chariots of flames and shades that light the night, I cannot hide! These thoughts that broke the silence, like thunder in my mind My hands of demons and words of saints In the end they all will remember As I ride this madness and drag these coffins These coffins of November Like an echo in this valley that I walk, I chant out the weakness Like a cathedral of souls so lost, my heart always reminds me Of those piercing eyes like diamonds, like dying embers in the night When I lay down with my ghosts, who drag me away from the light These chariots of flames and shades that light the night, I cannot hide! These thoughts that broke the silence, like thunder in my mind My hands of demons and words of saints In the end they all will remember As I ride this madness and drag these coffins These coffins of November Raindrops on my shallow grave, where I listen still and quiet Scared to breathe and wake those thoughts To wake the curse in... me again These coffins in the woods, These wooden sanctuaries from the world I can’t hide any longer... from this coming darkness This killing season of the mind This killing season of the mind The dark that flames the fires in my eyes Is the light that guides me through the night I build these walls to save them Tonight I count these coffins – five caskets open wide

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025