Songs and Dances of Death
I woke from reveries of love to find they were not real Yet her talons still rake wounds no salve can ever heal I grew up from youthful fantasies where colors filled my sight And slowly watched them fade away, the world an ashen blight I gazed into the heavens, night’s train of stars above And felt their cold indifference snaking through my blood I escaped into bemusement, and drowned inside her swirl And found that I have become one lost unto this world Betwixt the forest of confusion and the slough of despair The path before you weaves and twines far beyond your stare Beset with briars and with thorns hopelessly treacherous Enshrouded in gloom and mist your senses you mistrust Victims of this cruel road lie slain and unredeemed This pestilential air occludes with noxious misery Across the boundless distance you espy a glimmering The goal at last, the end in sight you bear this suffering Twisting, writhing soul Escape these common thoughts Look beyond your brethren’s ken Drink from wisdom’s draught Burning, bleeding heart See the universe within Wipe the scales from your eyes The veil of disillusion Transcending the boundary, this prison of false dreams Ascending through the netherworld of lies and human schemes To navigate a course through the round of wandering stars Passed the manifestations I set my gaze afar At the heart of creation where time and space proceed The poets and philosophers are silent in their screed In the hollow of this mystery eclipsing arcane law No one knows its origin, the source is without cause
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Countless, an infinitude of paths lead to your threshold The doors to your hall are open wide Frozen, the kiss you bestow upon your lovers Faithful, till the end of the age Sexton With hallowed earth Baptize us all Like incense, our prayers rise ever before thee Casting all crowns, bending the knee The idols that have misled man’s heart and clouded his vision Wither like grass and scatter like sheep Fear of thee Gave birth to mankind’s faith You arе the source The еssence of deity Faceless, the throng is assembled within your mansion Never to speak nor to depart Silent, beholding your face and your ghastly pallor O Mistress Death, Goddess of All Sexton With hallowed earth Baptize us all Celebrant The Spade’s work unceasing In filling the void Within this realm of dreamless sleep No names exist, no gods are invoked Within this realm of dreamless sleep No names exist, no gods are invoked
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Crush them! Hate them! Kill them! Slay them! With thunderous sound, the walls are breached Soldiers come charging in The Janissaries to their work With scimitar and pike The canons scream, the bells ring out The churches razed in flames The holy city’s corridors Lie choking with the dead Crush them! Hate them! Kill them! Slay them! The soldiers lust for violence Is sated on her masses The holy brides of Christ Arе ravaged on the altar Her childrеn so innocent Now slaves unto the Sheik The icons of the saints Lie trampled in the ashes The crosses are torn from the steeples In their place, the crescent moon The eyes of the saints are gouged out with daggers Hagia Sophia lies in desolation The crosses are torn from the steeples In their place, the crescent moon The eyes of the saints are gouged out with daggers Hagia Sophia lies in desolation The Theotokos goes unheard Her intercessions failed The city once so beautiful Wallows in destruction Man’s true self is revealed When left to his own whims With God on their side All crimes are justified
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
This malarial dream This unending sorrow Born of the stars Before the Aeons Its ever expanding form From nothingness begun, to nothing return Freezing winds howl As the worlds drift apart In this voiceless plane Where memory has drowned The spiral nebulae and its cosmic laws Twisting upon itself in unending cause Isotropic emission, unbounded course Ever evolving with parallel force When stars hide their fires The earth turns to ash The lights are еxtinguished Silence conquеrs the void Its ever expanding form From nothingness begun, to nothing return In the visage of infinite space Thoughts of the self lose all their meaning Decrepitude infests the mind The bewilderment of fools When reality is overbearing All manner of lies become truths In the visage of infinite space Thoughts of the self lose all their meaning The spiral nebulae and its cosmic laws Twisting upon itself in unending cause
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Fire sears the azure sky All the fields are burning Mass graves fill the sacred soil Children ground beneath the wheels Of this vile procession The locusts swarm Beneath a banner Of madness No respite From devils on either side Pillars of flame The freezing hell of Gulag No resistance met The First Throne in their vision Her spires glisten in the snow The dead bеneath the earth Of this glacial wastеland Are laughing For the miscreants Are trapped No remorse The hydra’s head springs anew Death rides forth The seventh seal lies broken Shackled and hemmed in on all sides There can be no escape Bound in this frozen abyss Like Judas in Satan’s jaws With violence unrestrained Unknown since earth’s foundation Cities become ruins People turn to ashes As winter changes seasons The world becomes a mire The locusts turn to flee The crops have all been scorched Shackled and hemmed in on all sides There can be no escape Bound in this frozen abyss Like Judas in Satan’s jaws From this dream You will never awake Fire fills the azure sky The fatherland is burning Your sins are repaid at last No respite From devils on either side Pillars of flame The freezing hell of Gulag When shadows ensorcell the heart Destruction shall be your guide Following blindly like sheep Authoring your own demise
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026
Incessant, these thoughts unconstrained Weigh heavy upon you A deluge of fear Flooding the mind Shadows encompass the heart Your hope and your reason are fading A descent into dread All courage departs This battle cannot be won Within the labyrinth mind Trapped in a spiraling maze Its start and its finish are cryptic The architect lost In his own design Guard-like these tenebrous walls Will ever confine you The world and its cares Become more unreal Senseless once consumed with itself The soul forever is restless Within this benighted slumber All fictions are real, and truth is a lie The honey is poisoned, the flowers have thorns The sun never shines At the heart of this hellish dreamscape In coffles you lie bound You knit them together link by link In silence, without sound Stirred in a feverish sweat Night’s host of terrors upon you This cackling horde Tears at your flesh Behemoth, the beast of the earth His signs and wonders deceive you Leviathan roused He opens his mouth This battle cannot be won Within the labyrinth mind
Submitted by SerpentEve — Jun 16, 2026