When the End Began
Two years lost in a lightless sleep¹ Not a star in sight since the fall of the machine² Creation and invention, collide to provide³ A gap in existence: a ripple in time⁴ As matter collapsed⁵, I fell inside Crossing a distant, deathless, dimensional divide⁶ Where the sum of gravity granted passage and bowed The Night God Slept, Everything Was Sound⁷...⁸
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
First the auspices, they came dripping from the sky Set their course to the coast, black sand blazing in their eyes We woke and bore witness to a tarnished veil of gold Tiny corpses line the strand, obsolescence unfolds Intravenously, hypodermic pipelines seep toxins to the sea Adorning our shores with negligence Suffocate, immolate, cauterize the surface Poison dances in the sky Walk with me, walk with me and see our colonies Breeding dystrophy Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate Burn inside your chest? Palpitating, palpitating pulse Failing heart, cardiac convulse The violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? "It was all for nothing" - spiraling out of control Misdirected decathect , both indirect and circumspect Oh, architect of disconnect; in retrospect, I now suspect Trace the hills with your hungry eyes Witness how, like an orphan's spine Cities protrude on the horizon line Greed will rise and carve out the sky, blinding us to the repercussion Pull the blood from the earth , leave a grave for your sons Oil is the ink, fueling missiles like pens - writing oblivion Walk with me, walk with me and see our colonies Breeding dystrophy Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate Burn inside your chest? Palpitating, palpitating pulse Failing heart, cardiac convulse The violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? "It was all for nothing" - spiraling out of control Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? "It was all for nothing" - spiraling out of control This violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable The violence we love, it's cyclical We rose just to fall I followed the harm to the site of infection The exit wounds where we made our home We were gorged with the earth and drunk off the seas And now we die with the taste of decay on our tongues
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
Speak to me in a language only Lovers can understand Dance with me in a rhythm only Lovers can comprehend One fist gripping defiance Other cradling the sacred inside of our hands : Pariah It's the pain of becoming Confronting what stirs within I wanted to show you apocalypse So you could see just how this ends as it begins No place to rest your head No respite for an anathema Banished for the sin of honesty From the citadel of little-hidden hells Pyroglyphic: I saw Your face inside the fire Monolithic: A dominance that dictates desire Ultimatum: Dual damnations dichotomize me Suffocation: Crushed beneath holy hypocrisy This isn't love, this is escape Exiled into the night Left to navigate a world that negates our needs The Visible Unseen You're the weight I'll always carry Through a world so cold, you'll never walk alone We will find a place to lay our heavy heads These lonely roads will always lead you home Am I only flawed when I am alive? Only your child if I live denied? I ask of you, Benevolence, was I made just to be broken? Our faith became a silver shield, insulated from compassion Praising the prosperity , repressing their identity I'll show you hell is a place, it's in the secrets we keep Oh God, how those secrets keep me This isn't love, this is escape This isn't love, this is escape Coerced conformity fixed on the dust in their eye Forest fires rage in mine I never thought to ask When you said she was asleep, did you hear my disbelief? The bitter irony, that I wait for God as she dies beside me You're the weight I'll always carry Through a world so cold, you'll never walk alone We will find a place to lay our heavy heads These lonely roads will always lead you home We found our place in the disconnect of neglect These lonely roads will always lead you home Until our paths converge, give me eyes to see the visible unseen These lonely roads will always lead you home Speak to me in a language only Lovers can understand One fist gripping defiance Other cradling the sacred inside of our hands
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
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Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 18, 2026
You bury me Glass clouds shed their autumn skin Kiss the mourning stems as they bow to the wind Heads hung like wartime mothers As the congregants struggle to console one another We're bandaged together, soothing the surcease Huddled inside the fog beneath the barren trees Budding youth, unfettered by absolutes Do branches wither first when there's blood on the roots? Can you stretch a moment into a thousand? Away from the quiet collapse of it all I know the Know who knows you, I see the see who sees you I'll follow you into forever I memorized your pain I put my thoughts inside your name Little Light, can't you see? You're supposed to be the one who buried me I tried to stop the flood, I tried to pull you from the tide Now you paint the sky with distant fire The room lay quiet, sowing silence Watching lifelines stream through wilting arteries Dreams crash with awe behind your roving eyes How I envy the calm that occupies your mind Drifting just above the flatline That keeps your thoughts displaced from mine I can't divert the current I divide and wash ashore I'll try to write you to rest Plant you inside my prose Yet my resolve Does it shake beneath a four-foot casket shadow? The ink has spilled across the page Shaping surviving sun to shade Valleys and peaks, in grief Descend into a ceaseless sleep See how the night unfolds Constellations welcome you home Adrift in the river beyond our memories You bury me I memorized your pain I put my thoughts inside your name Little Light, can't you see? You're supposed to be the one who buried me I tried to stop the flood, I tried to pull you from the tide Now you paint the sky with distant fire I memorized your pain I put my thoughts inside your name Little Light, can't you see? You're supposed to be the one who buried me I tried to stop the flood, I tried to pull you from the tide Now you paint the sky with distant fire
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation Invader, you dare make me a stranger Invader, you brand me as a traitor These borders were forged in loss Painted with a martyr's forgotten blood Legions of stone infecting the land Legions we carved into the palm of God's hand Stigmata cities stitched together with walls intent On sanitizing the sedition of our dark traditions We begin with the purest of intentions Then fabricate the cruelest inventions Interpret the subtext: "S - O - S" Euthanized with euphemistic lies, populace of blank binary minds Appetite for endless apathy, breathing in, in, insecurity Until you see your reflection through the scope of a weapon Nothing will ever change A revolution stirs in the silence The movement defies this negative space I hear you through the noise The truth that speaks in silence , scale the divides we devise We locked out the world, but we're locked inside I hear you through the noise The hope sung from the margins , my heartbeat just a step behind I didn't know your name, but I knew we were out of time Nuclear families split apart like the atom Demagogues proliferate the calloused grip of the state The future asphyxiates under nativist suspicions Insipid minds domestic fission Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation Thirteen, cold as a stillborn - wounds still warm in his chest Behold the crimson lens, peer through the gaps in the flesh Bullets raining from Babylon: the price of wealth How can you resist this cycle if you can't resist yourself? What a world we knew Before we fearfully withdrew To our silent cells of solitude But still, I hear you, I hear you I hear you through the noise The truth that speaks in silence, scale the divides we devise We locked out the world, but we're locked inside I hear you through the noise The hope sung from the margins, my heartbeat just a step behind I didn't know your name but I knew we were out of time
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
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Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 18, 2026
Certain was the fear trembling in your father's chest Encountering the ancients in a graveyard for those who never rest Even the wind lay still as time revealed the fools we are Quiet monoliths appear, suspended in the air Solemn in their countenance, impervious to fear Marveling at the symmetry that binds and brings us here Separating threads of space, distinctions disappear Take all of your answers, throw them in the flames I'll keep the questions, I'll take the rain Defend all your doctrines, those lies you had sworn I'll wander through the night, I'll sleep in the storm I'll follow you to the end, I'll weather the world, I'll sleep in the storm I'll follow you to the end where time has no beginning I pulled the past apart, futures unraveled with its plans To my chagrin, the answers felt hollow in my hands Adorned with memories that form the tapestry of life Collective accounts of consciousness from virtue to vice "Where are you now?" My voice echoed in that canyon I turned to find you lynched, choking with abandon The scope of time at first profuse, now twisted to the shape of a noose We wanted to see forever, but instead we saw the truth Species of the nightmare, people of the dream Language is your prison but also the key Confront the heart of fear Behold the shape of destiny Spinning in circles, waltz with the sun There's no time, many turn to one Take all of your answers, throw them in the flames I'll keep the questions, I'll take the rain Defend all your doctrines, those lies you had sworn I'll wander through the night, I'll sleep in the storm I'll follow you to the end, I'll weather the world, I'll sleep in the storm I'll follow you to the end where time has no beginning Blinded by the shadow of what we've seen Empty in our depths of understanding Burdened with the weight of paradox I fear we have been sentenced to be free
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026
I knew one truth, and that truth was the sea Cold and knowing, it saw the coward in me And as the stain of epochs lines my tongue I choked heavy on the past, too numb to speak back We're each abandoned by the hands of time That set us down to sail circles across a straight line Sister moon, are we all that's left? Just a silent satellite and the sigh of flesh Come down and rest your lunar head on my breast Listen to the terror tear at my chest Our masts in tatters, oars shattered Feel free to pull me back to the vast, unforgiving mass Should we call this art, my falling apart? The tangents of an imbalanced heart As matter multiplied, I divide, but I digress The deprivation is taking effect You've said if I stood against my darkness Not all of me would die But all I see on the surface is a shadow And it occurs to me this could mean suicide When you went quiet , I turned to silence Seven sisters draw me back across the moor Could you still love me in my leaving? Would you remember me by the moments we forgot? And as the waves slapped at my raft I cursed the fate like our vows, they broke at the bow Flanked by the mist, I inhaled the breath of existence Then you called me for one last time I am the wind, the Be and the Still I am the Depths, the Immeasurable Will And when I awoke in that Garden Lord, did you see me as I was dreaming? I locked eyes with the storm The sky sank down to receive the fury of the sea The abolition of my being The precipice of eternity Incandescence burst through the black The veil was torn as the void collapsed The rain will subside Be my eyes, show me hope in the maw of the night Our fractured pasts fall into one A dozen stars collide as a perpetual sun And as we disintegrate Will you be the Fire that burns in my lungs? Breathe me in Watch me burn Come breathe me in, breathe me in You'll watch me burn
Submitted by The Void — Feb 21, 2026