Among Ashes and Monoliths

With all the strength I mustered through these diligent years I watch you stand all flustered trapped by insipid fears I can't deny the power the intrinsic fruitfulness of spending every hour in search of meaningfulness Watch me bleeding Hear me breathing Watch me evolve by my own resolve There is a light in madness which seeps in through the rift and lets you feel the sadness - illumination's gift In any given moment I'll choose to feel the pain To open up to torment so as not to have lived in vain There was a time when I, didn't value the choice to live my life and destruction was my core, but it brought only pain and fear and strife Now I stand fast in the firmness of choices made and the direction in my will to stand apart To stand strong, yet always humble, and treat existence as an art But in my bleakest moments I dread that my fearfulness is winning However, within the darkest hour always lies the wherewithal for a new beginning Hear my words: Dread the pointlessness of indolence Stay firm in hand and heart! The quest for satisfaction - a life void of all deeds To only seek distraction To only fill your needs It´s such a nonexistence You're such a waste of space I hope it sparks resistance - your lives' of dull disgrace Watch a land out of hand That which you dread is for what I have bled

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 22, 2025

A hidden hall, in permanent bitter winter A seemingly forlorn place, under a waning moon Dark and ominous, a hopeless realm for the lost and damned A punishment, a barren relentless afterlife Cowards, thieves and murderers - come lay with me, feel my touch Backstabbers, liars, scum of the earth - I'll reap your filthy worthless souls Helheim in Nifelheim - you'll freeze in death in eternity A last caress, the kiss of death - come feel my cold everlasting embrace There's no compassion in this void There is no grandeur, only bleakness and emptiness To die eternally in cold and dark hopelessness Swept away on an icy gale from her last kiss My ice-cold lips, placed on yours You'll die, sweet Come feel the ecstasy Creep down your spine Ice-cold fingers, creeping down my spine Cold lips sucking the marrow out of my bones A perpetual night, a grim and frostbitten world To court death, to die in empty ecstasy Cowards, thieves and murderers - come lay with me, feel my touch Backstabbers, liars, scum of the earth - I'll reap your filthy worthless souls Helheim in Nifelheim - you'll freeze in death in eternity A last caress, the kiss of death - come feel my cold everlasting embrace Feel my ice-cold fingers creep down your spine You'll die in my ecstasy My everlasting cold embrace

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 22, 2025

My creation, wonderful and beautiful To fight back, will be less than futile I'll ravage, your body and your mind I'll disintegrate you, leave exquisiteness behind My lust, is always vivid Your allure, is always livid I'll rip and shred and tear and shape you with my hands I'll slay and create something that forever stands I'll lacerate and give you my caress Eternal beauty I now with you bless The loveliness, in your eyes when they go blank Such release, from this place so dark and dank The freedom, in a cause so meaningful When existence, by my hand are being culled I'll rip and shred and tear and shape you with my hands I'll slay and create something that forever stands I'll lacerate and give you my caress Eternal beauty I now with you bless With gratefulness you should accept this gift I bestow upon thee To be a monument of beauty in eternity forever free The sculptures my gift, my work of art A gallery, in remembrance of the heart of darkness, and non-compliance Now lining, the boulevard to the graves of giants I rip and shred and tear and shape you with my hands I slay and create something that forever stands I lacerate and give you my caress Eternal beauty I now with you bless There's divinity in creation Manifesting new behemoths by ablation Cutting and hacking and stitching and sewing Lusting for the changes you are undergoing With gratefulness you should accept this gift I bestow upon thee To be a monument of beauty in eternity forever free. Forever free!

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 22, 2025

The night is filled with visions of pure relentless might I see my own reflection mirrored in your stark fright The words and whispers in your fitful and restless sleep Casts you into a chasm pointless, dark and deep Distorted, I'm looking back at me Unholy, nefarious and free Disdainful, of your pathetic choice Independence! Is what I will voice Creeping, through the night I walk along the winding dark paths of my own dreams Stepping straight through my shadow ripping reality's tight stitched seams Stalking, through the night Will not go down, without a fight The blessing in chosen solitude The razor sharp shards of nightly thoughts that cast shadows upon the brightest moments of the lies you pretend to believe The blessing in chosen solitude The razor sharp shards of nightly thoughts that cast shadows upon the brightest moments of the lies you live On the other side of my chosen path I meet my true reflection born of my wrath Barging, through the haze While you are stuck, in your delusional maze The blessing in chosen solitude The razor sharp shards of nightly thoughts, that cast shadows upon the brightest moments of the lies you pretend to believe The blessing in chosen solitude The razor sharp shards of nightly thoughts that cast shadows upon the brightest moments of the lies you live

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 22, 2025

The sense of falling, when you lose control I thought I had a calling, but I was made a fool To bear witness to how, I succumbed to fright To lose all sense of knowhow, and spend my life in flight Sacrifice, throw the stone, got nothing I can call my own Beat me down, debased I'll be, I dare not remember how it felt to be free Desensitized, numb to pain, from all aspirations I will refrain Strike me down, rip me apart, I can't face yet another start Sacrifice, throw the stone, got nothing I can call my own Beat me down, debased I'll be, I dare not remember how it felt to be free Desensitized, numb to pain, from all aspirations I will refrain Strike me down, rip me apart, I can't face yet another start Hollow Empty Shallow Fragile There is nothing left of what once made me me I can't remember what independent thought felt like It's not even a sense of a dark and endless night, there's nothing, not even a dull grey, just nothing, nothing at all But at each bottomless pit, awaits an ember spelled grit There comes a time to fight, and spit in the face of your own fright Strike me down, throw the stone I will forever hold my own Beat me down, but watch and see how I'll always be myself, I'm me! Desensitized, but I will stand fast and meet my pain with a firm, At last! Try to strike me down, try to rip me apart, with head held high I'll face yet another start

What the fuck, you're all so scared!? I wish you lived I wish you dared You'll have me drown in plain disgust When you flee your lives and in me entrust the responsibilities which you all shed as a consequence of what you dread It becomes a prison that you hold so dear but it is a cage built from your fear Avoid all challenges Hide from all that scares you Steer free from all obstacles And live a life that is null and void The weakness shown: vanity and pride Oblivious that it's to yourselves you've lied Trudging through life without rhyme or reason To your own existence you're committing treason And the sense of entitlement that feeds your dismay is your fearful selfishness caught on display I can't go on I need to catch my breath So I wish you all a pointless death Avoid all challenges Hide from all that scares you Steer free from all obstacles And live a life that is null and void Come on! Taint your life with norms and fears Avoid anything that resembles independent thought Live in disgrace and in constant flight And never know the joy and strength in the unconventional, the individualistic, the freethinking mindset of not being a subject to another's authority Dare to make choices Stand up for your choices Dare to make choices Stand up for your choices Dare to make your voice heard and stand your ground Dare to make your voice heard and stand your ground Hold that thought do you think I lie? What will be your regrets on the day you die? That you lived a life of your own choosing? Or that you spent your time in fear of loosing things and thoughts that are of norms and your vanity? To me that is the essence of insanity! That you squandered your time cause of stupid pride Will be your biggest regret right before you've died Take on all challenges Face everything that scares you Crush through all obstacles and shun a life that is null and void

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 22, 2025

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A roar of distant thunder A face filling the sky A sense of fear and wonder Is this the day I'll die? Putrid webs encroach my life The passing time is the root of strife Imminent thoughts, oppressive guilt The ruthlessness of the hours I've spilt Rip me up, feast on me Cast me aside, set me free I hope this is, the day I die I wish for death, from a silent sky Emptiness is filling me I long for something that I can't see Distressed by existence a hollow dark husk I'm hoping for darkness your dawn is my dusk Deeds not done a void I'm in as a nonbeliever I don't even have sin The pointlessness is a point in its own but meaninglessness is all that it's shown Striving for purpose but lacking in faith Robbed of existence all I can do is wait Wait for death I hope this is, the day I die I wish for death, from a silent sky Emptiness is filling me I long for something that I can't see Distressed by existence a hollow dark husk I'm hoping for darkness your dawn is my dusk

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 22, 2025