Opaque

Empty places can make you feel alone In a sea of consciousness The consequences of this constant rush for more Will leave you breathless A vision of darkness Cools down your burning heart Still flaming like heroes Our downfall has yet to start A grand introspection Will show you where to go Insatiable hunger For life consumes your core A desire to outgrow This tiny piece of cosmos You were given to control We are the outsiders As we stand against the world The answer lies in silence The unspoken words of wisdom Shall roam No bullets are stronger Than the universal truths No preachers are holier Than those whose love is pure This age of destruction Is coming to a close It’s time for progression Let’s watch our empires fall A desire to repair This broken piece of land That we’re destroying for our gain We are the uprisers As we stand against this war No answer lies in violence No dictator can suppress A rebel’s soul Rejects of the system Choose their freedom over pain In silence lies the answer Be the error in their reign Uprisers and outsiders We will keep this flame alive No violence is the answer No dictator can suppress A rebel’s fire

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

The pages have turned Your new chapter is burning fast Letters to dust, floating ashes Of a madman's mind Destroy what you touch (Destroy, destruct) Destroy what you see (Destroy, destruct) Destroy everything Rejoice in your power Hear the cries intensify As the golden ruins shine in the blinding sun Illusions of glory Paint a symphony to lead the dying What’s inside this rotten heart That you feel you must win this fight Perished cities can’t cheer for their messiah Now the tables have turned In this wasteland There is nothing left but pain [There’s nothing but pain] Control starts with a lie Plant the seed and let it spread like fire Illusions of glory Paint a symphony to lead the dying If thoughts are more powerful than guns Then you must disarm your enemies And you must take away their ideas As your blood solidifies You know your gift is a farce A golden king cursed by the gods above Delusions of grandeur Paint a symphony of your undoing Touch and destroy Touch and destroy

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

In a city of steel Exchanging merits for dreams Is it enough to buy freedom? Each day’s a hamster-wheel So you crave something real A melody to break free …What if you ran away Deep down into the woods Away from the pain Vacant faces disappear Even on your own Out here, without the screens You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves Are you ready to face your fears? Dead leaves… All you ever hear Trapped inside your cell Intrusive ads track you down Flashing in your language There’s no escape from this hell Your relief is the sound Of her voice soothing your rage …What if you ran away Deep down into the woods Away from the pain Restless noises disappear Even on your own Out here, without the screens You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves Are you ready to face your fears? For all you’ve ever known Is grey mediocrity What lies behind those walls Must outshine the taste of tears Just keep running… Hear the song that’s long forgotten Has it lost its ring? Have the colours lost their vibrance? Are they bleak like the echoes Of dead leaves? Just keep running… Don’t stop …And then you run away Deep down into the woods Away from the pain Their crude laughter spells dismay Even on your own Out here, without the screens You’re haunted by the scent of dead leaves Are you ready to face your fears? For all you’ve ever known Is grey mediocrity What lies behind those walls Must outshine the taste of tears Leaves… sickening scent of leaves Scent of dead leaves Just keep running… Don’t stop

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Behind the gleaming mirror of every appearance A dull suffering is concealed in the dark This hidden affliction is not able to crack The glass fences that we put between us Few people are able to see The distorting face of our misery The smooth surface only returns the projection Of others’ expectations in one direction Everywhere these reflected shadows are posted Pictures revealing only our own anxiety Our facades displaying in an infinite gallery The enticing portraits of these defined masks In this sad simulacrum no dream can pierce The thickness of our one-way glass The slightest seed of hope is consumed without delay By the meanders of life before getting digested Time reigns supreme on these formatted subjects Who advance in rhythm with the ticking seconds An interval much too short to allow To expose a part of our unease to the world We have tried so hard to make deafening A silence which may seem obvious to some But those who are in the same situation hear nothing Obsessed with these obscure reflections Still, one day our images will shatter Suddenly revealing miserable figures Mouth paralyzed in a mute cry for help And glassy eyes, forever frozen Rhymes for the time When we began to hide Losing our mind Starting to decline Behind the hourglass Flattened by the mass Of what days and nights Keep throwing at us The sluice of my brain can no longer impede The foam and the waves of this hard reality The swell is spreading on the shore of my illusions So eroded and worn away by tears in fusion A thundering noise in the prison of my skull I begin to burn the muse that made me dull Her once clear face is fading in the embers But the tumult in my head by no means disappears Animals Running out of life Building high To keep our dreams in sight Clones in line We’ve lost our divine Opaque and blind Behold our mankind Words can’t do a thing in this ocean of nonsense My brain shuts down and I’m left without reason How can I not sink, how can I survive How can I see the truth among these lies No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor We have turned on the screen forever No one will ever see our fissures anymore Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers Frosty breeze, a whiff of misery Gust of icy winds, putrid melancholy Salty tear, a whisper in your ear Embittered fury, a resounding scream No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor We have turned on the screen forever No one will ever see our fissures anymore Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers While you feel you might need the dark While you think the light is burning out Rise, rise against your will to hide Though our age sees shadows growing fast And the upcoming night might indeed last The rage in your eyes can restore your sight Rise, rise against your will to hide I fall every day in the shadows around me A one way journey with no one to rescue me I sink, I write, I live, I die I’m hiding my madness in the ink of my nights I hide I hide

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025