The Healer

Silence, long held in shuttered cities Landscape pocked with bodies Stale breath hovers Piled high under common eye the naked dead flow A stream uninterrupted in light of day Rats stir, quiver under sun’s unbidden pallor Oh, muted hearts through clasped hands glimmer Shine! Shine! Steps falter in halls long emptied Dull gaze glistens through shadowed cracks Mask broken Blood, across all shores twined By the fall all are joined Through red cloud’s haze finger’s reach is met All are joined All are joined Sight regained In rooms now illumed by fire’s shine Swaying mass by hymns restored Up the luminous steps Arisen from the ash they ascend Up! Up! Ascend! By shards of sun scattered Through dome hung with leaves are anointed bowed heads In this world of light

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025

Grey plains crossed Dry and cracked Neck craned Leading to springs infinite Seen from chasms shade Lead press of the keeper’s weight Breath drawn short lungs briar pricked Over ground steps weave and recede Under boughs of the pine Our hearts undone New rites from ancient blades To dispel the curdled blood Laid across the place by waters ringed Under boughs of the pine Our hearts conjoined No sorrow Only strength Through space In tumult mind carried Thought obscured Inlets to flowering expanse Colors shift into forms unknown Perfumed confusion stuttered sound Heaving fields Honeyed sores From flesh and fallow limbs Petals open

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 25, 2025

From father's palm crude stone is flung its rippling arc a violent quake in the air Oh, how it flies Vengeful and without mercy Mercy! Mercy! Upon the pages turn Falling flecks, blood succession from the stone's turn Through the years it tears The stone turns Through two hearts, a spear Wet flesh together pressed Of angry sun's surging pulse is shared For Phaeton Apollo burns Through two hearts, a spear The worm’s howl echoes through the years Gorged upon our spirits By swallowed tears the stone now dissolved Now hands may rest on gentle skin Held Weakness splayed open Caressing offal tender Licked by golden flame We are remade

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025