Faded Anchors of the Past

Slowly but merciless Straight our time flies by Our senses started to struggle When we deny what’s real The way we choose to go Is so full of light (but) Even if we gave some light We ourselves mean decline This ingenuity – our downfalls cause In the prime of our breed we started to fail These great achievements of our race What will remain? (We’re subtle) Ruthless and always opinionated We strive for ourself The light that we still hold In our fading mind Will ever be the same? As long as we breathe Stay off! You bleed in fright Stay off! What are you aiming for? Let me be… Stay off! Selfish inside Stay off! There’s no sincerity in your eyes The light that we still hold In our fading mind Will ever be the same? As long as we breathe The path of being wrong Inevitably ours? Receded

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 25, 2025

I'm falling into my dream Silence is broken with my own scream From sacred chains I try to hide One step closer to darkness that grows inside I see your face It's haunting me (forever) For my disgrace Forget I will endeavour Lust for revenge Ignites me no more And the damage you’ve done Would be enough, I swore Last day, last night Will purge illusive light Last tale, I failed To see that I was right This pain like bane Upon my scarred back Your name’s profaned Deceptive eyes are black Uprising, hatred, disgust All now is vanished or turned to dust Broken are chains, nothing to hide Sank into darkness that’s grown inside I see your face It's haunting me forever And my disgrace Forget I will endeavour Lust for revenge Ignites me no more The damage you’ve done Would be enough, I swore Last day, last night Will purge illusive light Last tale, I failed To see that I was right This pain like bane Upon my scarred back Your name’s profaned Deceptive eyes are black Forget… Forgive…. Regret…. And leave… Away… Again… Astray… Of pain… Denied!

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

Withering vines, recurring seasons Never humbler, never open 5 a.m., flight of dawn No rest for the sleepless... Hopeless detractor I am... Shadowing every good intention Here I lay None wiser... Human impulse overthrown The cold gray fog of dawn Distant pulse of the Earth We reap what we have sown In this garden of impermanence Churchyard gates, subway window views This city ages with me Wild dreams and memories echo As decouraging mementos Hopeless detractor I am... Shadowing every good intention Here I lay None wiser... In light of day The cold gray fog of dawn Distant pulse of the Earth We reap what we have sown In this garden of impermanence Light of day, cold morning dew Silent wake of nostalgia Lamentations seeping through Was it all in vain? The cold gray fog of dawn Distant pulse of the Earth We reap what we have sown In this garden of impermanence Light of day, cold morning dew Silent wake of nostalgia Lamentations seeping through Was it all in vain?

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

The tide washes up remnants of my past One by one A sense of decay passes over me A creature emerges, victorious, embalmed from the neck down The head remains in the void. Can’t you see me, oh, can’t you hear me? I’m touching your skin, no presence is there. Contrary beliefs fall on false pretence Freedom to stray above all else Time will depend on small lost moments A secret befriends, what’s said and done. A profound form Wrinkles ones brow It creates a taste For endless questions Relinquish me now Relinquish me here Creates a sense of paranoia Each and every day. We flow through these echoes of the past I hear them on each step where every foot goes Time listens to no man, down the hatch, move forward clutching at every straw Let each grain of sand fall through your fingers, shining bright; explode, into one of those Echoes that form the past and drive you forward Process choice and go with the flow. Can’t you see me, oh, can’t you hear me? I’m touching your skin, no presence is there. Contrary beliefs fall on false pretence Freedom to stray above all else Time will depend on small lost moments A secret befriends, what’s said and done. This disillusion - a warped space in time A voice, a vision This creature depends on it, it prays on it Night and day. Contamination, a distant decay A taste so vile Cerebral discrepancies Pretend its bliss Onwards this way. Life’s bigger than all this Approximation incomplete Your presence My glory It’s so sufficient, I can rest. Can’t you see me, oh, can’t you hear me? I’m touching your skin, no presence is there. Contrary beliefs fall on false pretence Freedom to stray above all else Time will depend on small lost moments A secret befriends, what’s said and done.

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

As I behold them once again… Nights, them nights Transform my dreams Into the nightmares Again… The cascade of darkness Makes all the ghosts of the past uprise from their shelter They still haunt me, yet vanish with the dawn Like the shadows… This horror of unreality Brings my mind to the edge, Please someone awake me I dream… The beauty turned to beast And the villainy of soul is so clear… Darkness falls Time has come Spirits of the dead arise! As I behold them once again Swarm into my head And die, they die… Faults, them faults Drag me down For I have failed Again… The torture of darkness When all the ghosts of the past have risen from their graves They still haunt me, still pour my soul out Like the shadows… This horror of reality Brings my mind to the edge, Please someone awake me I dream… But I just don’t let them out Can’t let it go…no! Darkness falls Time has come Spirits of the dead arise! As I behold them once again Swarm into my head And die, they die… As I behold them once again I just don’t let ‘em out

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025

Feel my pain Will you? Heed my scream Would you? Take my hand Won’t you? Take a step Closer… As I stand here Where the sullen waters flow Memories arise Like the dead from the deep Where the sullen waters flow Darkened thoughts are freed Where the coldest winds blow Open wounds still bleed …they still bleed Drown my faith In you Perish my hope With you Take my hand Won’t you? Take a step Closer… As I lay here Where the sullen waters flow Risen memories With the dead from the deep Where the sullen waters flow Darkened thoughts are freed Where the coldest winds blow Open wounds still bleed …they still bleed

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me: I will not, cannot go.

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

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