Forgotten Days

I wore away, as years washed by Like a stone in any riverbed to find But I am flesh and bone, awaiting peace of mind I've lost myself in thoughts of days behind Distant memories Form constellations of despair Guiding through the state of disrepair Illuminate All the hurts that have accrued Unlock the cage, holding back the truth I'll beg to start anew If it will cauterize the wounds Damn these rivers of bad blood And quell the raging of the flood Worn away, the years crawl by As arbors wither slow, becoming deserts, dry Along with flesh and bone, beset on every side By misery, borne within the mind Distant silhouettes Nearly all of them obscured Exposed to be The damages incurred I'll beg to start anew If it will cauterize the wounds Damn these rivers of bad blood And quell the raging of the flood Laying down in the riverbed Counting the words that I've never said to you Their numbers swell so far above my head Wide-open eyes drink in torrential red As I drown

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Ain't it hard To find a new start When you don't really want To change Waste away Clone your moments Every day you know Things will stay the same This place So hollow Seems like a prison cell to me A bed of lies The place where you hide Is that enough To get you by? Your face So hollow Do you need a reason to smile again Your life is worth to much To waste the whole thing Wasted and wrapped up In yourself Stasis Stasis Stasis Living in stasis

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Silver wings circle Portents of a strange past returning Over bones of crippled behemoths I tread through the mire In the mists, I can feel it Looming as a vulture Eyes fall upon me Searching, shifting in judgement So small, so weak... Pale in the dimming light of æons Near the river, I see it Jet black and silent Approaching, I'm diminished By mysteries of 10,000 ages I cannot remember From where I came And I cannot remember Who I once was The slow march of time Turns even the greatest of triumphs To nothing Nothing more than sand Washed into the infinite sea

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Under the shadows of high walls The condemned is led blindly to doom In the place where blood falls And fills the earth, damnation blooms Carve away dignity Piece by piece For all to see Stripped and flayed Humanity For the lost No sympathy Cries for deliverance Echo through halls of pain Vengeance and ruination Flows in crimson rivers The agony of castigation An offering to the true god death delivered Carve away dignity Piece by piece For all to see Stripped and flayed Humanity For the lost No sympathy Cries for deliverance Echo through halls of pain This ritual of violence Yet another link in the never-ending chain Eye for an eye Crime for a crime The true measure of power The ability to inflict cruelty with impunity Cries for deliverance Echo through halls of pain This ritual of violence Yet another link in the never-ending chain

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

I wasn't prepared to face the final hues To watch the color fade and let go of my youth Walls were built to hide it all from view Still standing now, still as resolute I could hardly muster a goodbye Pleading for numbness to arrive Though it meant I'd never fully heal I lost the will to let myself feel Caledonia I wasn't aware That fate would plunge the knife I'd watched the color fade out from joys of life Walls of guilt can hide it all from view I try to tear them down Still they are renewed I can hardly muster a goodbye And I'm pleading for numbness to survive Every day when clarity reveals I've lost the will to let myself heal Caledonia From the depths of your being One last moment awake From the depths of my being I've never ceased to escape From Caledonia (From Caledonia) Caledonia (Caledonia)

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025