Love in Shadow
What has, will and can be seen Feeds at root in crimson pools Through all These binding waters flow By channels interwoven Without a fear of severance When horizon sun beheads Would leave endless days of drought And dust to keen Through our hollow husks In pillars made of flesh and bone In repose and undisturbed Would rot our hearts unwrung Though clouds are licked by flame From the fiery tongues of man unhinged Ruin that's sought may buried be By all bodies in love entwined Risk our hands in others' held To be seen Stripped and raw Under threat of rending blows The task of souls imbued with light Risk our hands in others' held
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 25, 2025
Body, tongue, touch and need In suffocating arms were these learned And from the withered teat was suckled Poison nectar Born of curse to walk the earth Demanding service from the fallen The evil seed in perfumed bloom Chokes the host its bearer To rut with shades That welcome weakling conqueror king In their embrace The soul seeps from rotted loins No hope for healing Seen by eyes grown dim Still he throws himself on clustered thorns The lonely throne of he who seeks The paltry arms of pleasure In their beds he is compelled To lose the blood of sin contained
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025
My day did dusk to turn As you emerged And in your face I saw my own Before years drawn long From the other side You came in And in your gaze I saw my end As years draw on As years draw long As one into another turned Iron point in furrowed dirt From graying hair and aching bones To supple flesh And shining eyes Countenance so bright beheld A midnight sun dispels the dark Arcing momentary silver flash To pierce encroaching night As flows in you Our better blood
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025
No utterance from granite tongue No steps permit a path's retreat Cast back to open lands Once so freely roamed Hover here A gate between The dim unseen And that which lays in light The gathered howl of spectral hordes In torrential silent screaming Behind pinhole pupils black Beg release through flood and fire Time is broken Off its axis Shards in pinprick constellation Seek the peace of utter blankness Intoxicated by the vapors As the core to ash is turned
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 25, 2025
Shaken from slumber Split and severed Blindly they seek Faded twin, once loved In this wounded way Beast is born To wander crooked paths In this way beast is broken Trailing red in bended grass An offering to guiding hands That lift from graves too early The burning hearts of life
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 18, 2026
Turn aside / Steady eyes belie the fear Small hollow words clatter to the ground Broken // Ruin has come not fire / or in ashen rain Only in turgid silence / Hanging. Flayed Submerged in presence summoned It expands with reach, filling rooms Welling up from the tar choked springs Reeking black star, shining weary light Bloodied eyes, no tears / Bloodied eyes, no light Know not to what this moment's owed Only slipping in shuddering dance Towards cold radiant dissolve
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 18, 2026
Behind closed doors / Lanterns sway in pulsing dark Though the body's near / Rigid man with soiled hands Cannot touch, cannot feel // Between walls in narrow cell Glaring light extinguished / cover tender scalp exposed Rigid man falls to summons, red / Drained and weak Flaccid body, bent in muddied gutter / No truth unwrung from its marrow cold Begs for mercy, for cleansing holy death Only broken may it pass / into golden dawn / forgiven
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 18, 2026
In simple sermons it began:/ "You are not yourself, you are me / There are only these words / and by them shall you live" / So forged was the mask of thousands / As child's face dissolves / Who so speaks shall name him / who so calls will bring him To his knees / "I will dance for you" / behind the mask / Something small fiercely gleams / all that's needed to claim the light Is the will to reach Thanks to skyler.gabel, rjwolt for sending these lyrics. Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmaster@darklyrics.com SUMAC LYRICS
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 18, 2026
His ghost dissolves in dust Formless, dragging heels through the dirt Small clouds Mark his passing through the house Here, not here Watching his ghost dissolve In the sun Here He hovered, he wavered Not here Swollen tongue, cut In the sun, gone Air heavy, knotted Leaden voice echoes Oh, hollow king Lord of emptiness Fear as master Your rule is null You have been crowned Hollow King Hollow King
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 18, 2026