Growth Without End
They will carve you with steel And scorch you with acid But it’s not in your nature to die And though you spring from their flesh They’ll curdle your blood with unseen energies But it’s not in your nature to die Always keep growing and changing Never stop spreading
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025
They say that time is infinite Not for length but for divisibility Half-seconds, milliseconds, nanoseconds Downwards and smaller forever Trillions of miniscule nows Packed together and barely considered As they shuffle past In the refugee column of personal history They slip from notice Through cracks that yawn At the edges of thought The grains of my life are draining away What becomes of the days? What has happened to me?
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025
You were a child when you first felt it The mass hiding inside you Its silent, fibrous bulk within Pressing itself into delicate tissues And so you bore its weight While: Your bones twisted around it You ate until you retched It grew harder to breathe The string in your back frayed You put a good face on it Fear cradled your soul in its palm In the hours that bracket sleep The doctors couldn’t find the mass Their machines turned up nothing But you knew it was there You could feel it shifting And so you gathered yourself each day And carried the mass in silence The anchor inside the quiet stoic The spindle of strength that guides the unwinding The heart of your truest self The mass will abide inside you always And will sink you by heartbeats in the end
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025
You have nothing to say and you’re saying it The words are empty, but still they reverberate No sources or points of reference Just impulse, momentum, and optimization You have nothing to say and you’re saying it You found the seam between truth and nonsense: How many heads can you force it into? How many mouths are compelled to repeat it? Will anyone hear you through the static? Or are you just another strain of it? I have nothing to say and I’m saying it
Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025
After all I’ve done for you The countless secrets I laid bare This is how you repay me? And in return for a victimless crime Committed in shadow, far from its eye For this, the crown has unmanned me Force-feed me the chemical scalpel Slice me up down below I slip from this world like an exile But as the current fades from the circuits The wetware pauses to savor the irony No matter what becomes of me My children will carry me into the future We will stalk you through the decades And castrate the minds of your children’s children As surely as you’ve castrated me
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025