Transience

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Life is a canvas laid bare for all to see Man is a mirror imprinted with lock and key Dichotomous gates lead to dormant ways Where every path was split in half We wander 'til we fade Time confounds and mystifies Awareness cuts like a blade The duplicitous curse of the gifts we share Soon lost on wasted days Let senses draw blood - drown in their flood A maelstrom of sweat and cold regret Life’s paint seeps from our veins Through the portals that we left Our shades will follow through Embrace the struggle Learn to grow with your pain Hope lies in the solace of a dying dream Beasts trapped in a corner fight fiercest of all Does the light not shine the brightest in the depth of night? Once our souls moved softly And tiptoed through the world The Atlas weight a gentle ache But this could not be us A slave to wretch nature A rag doll to our hearts To relish burden like a fool while shadows tear at our mind We have shaped our sorrow and became the forge Infernos that consumed us once have wrought a tempered flame But bitterness does suffocate and stone breaks all the same Our sculptor’s soul, though marble-made Eclipsed by the shadow of the heart Beasts trapped in a corner fight the fiercest of all Does the light not shine the brightest in the depth of night?

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

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Wanderlust in my heart Restless blood- fiery veins As grim ghosts of my past came haunting Seething with doubt I could sparse hold my ground Searching for signs when a raven struck down Judging my soul with an ice cold stare Ages of wisdom Ageless black eyes A soul laid bare before those pits Bereft of want and fancy Of aspirations made by man Fool's gold- false glory Relish in the dream untold Within it grander paths unfold What once was dear proved meaningless Our need is far beyond So meet me on the winding road where only the desperate dwell Behold in me a vision three They shape the flow of all In days of yore I craved release Now must decline death's invite sweet It was far too soon our paths would meet Yet part of me is still there For I was damned with clarity A path of thorns and agony Transfixed in eerie silence and overwhelming woe Existing out of space and time it spoke with not a word: "I'm here to give thee counsel... But never consolation..." And worlds I knew came tumbling down in crumbling ruins and ashes Dead planets and extinguished stars as far as the eye could see Did fill my soul with ecstasy and nigh inhuman glee Did shatter all that had been thus far, for the first time I could see Then in the cry it uttered That shattering banshee's wail A universe within enclosed did lay, proclaimed in unknown tongues Yet my heart, it understood each poison word Did strike the anvil of my soul Of my soul And every road entwined did graze Adrift where lost souls wallow On pathways where my answers lie No child of man could follow Cosmic storms swept all I was The end of my existence Within I braved a horror though never did I flinch For in these dreadful eons my essence was reforged An influx of wisdom blinding the virgin retina Witness to damnation Shepherd of the end My despair is hollow It heralds of rebirth "Rebuild then in the places Where only thought exists As the others taste but ashes In the furnace of your will" A mighty fall, now forced to be A vessel for purposeless misery In remembrance dear I once lived more Mere shadow of what was before Such rigid sight, a puzzled past Of what should be yet could not last Not here nor there yet lost between I am trapped in the eye of the Raven It was the sound of rustling wings Tore me from my vision grand Defeaning silence pierced my being Like a storm of nails Lifeless, torn and broken The beauty of my own demise I collapsed unto myself And plunged the heart of the abyss Drifting Lost in a timeless void Cursed to eternally behold The mirrored path unfold How I howled and wept Laughed and cried Lived and died I was empty- whole and perfect A creature most fulfilled

Gone is the flame Smoldering the ashes A flickering fades into my eyes Pursued by the howling of life The shadows cast by fading pyre At the hour of twilight stand guard For creatures lurk in deepest dark Waiting for the light to grow sparse Their hopelessness, the endless mist As long as I breathe they are mine So I beg of the wind for a whisper to my fallen kin But their shadows on the trees are nothing but a fantasy So distant the calling of forgotten dreams, How they yearn and beg for release I stand idle as they all are crushed by the turning of destiny's wheel A nomad of the wasteland journeys through the fog Where my feet have trodden, deepest are the bogs Where the wind is howling its song I wade through the snow A journey of the heart, no path can take me where I go I am a withered wanderer, wayward are my goals Lost in ancient forests, crystallised by souls Was my burden once an honour, it's reduced to plight In this fortress of the mind I have been haunting all my life Beyond the great golden divide A cadence frail so warmly strikes For whom it fades the soul divides Forever gone to where the daylight died Fixed on the horizon ever is my gaze Bitterly I stride on, blinded by the haze Is it dawn or will the dusk fall, I'll never know For the darkness that surrounds me is reminiscent of my own The mist envelops ruins, (their) purpose lost in time Statues in seclusion, empty are their eyes How I long to find a reason this world to endure But all I see are corpses of those who were lost - Before... The cadence frail now slowly fades A formless pale steps from the shade And whispers to my mind: "The time has come to leave your shape behind" Oh flame of life, mother regret Have mercy on this fallen wretch Grant me the strength to travel on And reach the hall to where the raven guides My body's too cold to move on, in one final act of defiance My feet stand steadfast in the snow but the frostbite takes its final toll I heave my hands towards the sky and sound my final forlorn cry I plead and beg the sky for mercy As my heart is freezing slowly, I embrace the storm And as I die I see the veil lifted by the sun

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

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