Antikatastaseis

As ancient stone I am Here I stand for evermore From high I gaze at this world so frail And ignore its false pleas For it is as I Eternal No paltry action can quake this titan Hewn from might above Before these gates to higher forms I marvel at such intricacy With myself at its center For all which is here is made And all which occurs is decided The kiss of rain Falling from the skies Flowing down my face to the shambling ground Pools grow beneath my feet Betwixt the crops of stone and Earth Yet the droplets see no wonder In the majesty of their order None proclaim their divinity As they grasp the rock so tight Floods and fire see my end Birthed into this realization Yet flesh rots And bone dissolves Before dogma yields its ugly head I see folly and failing No longer distant whimpers But eviscerating howls Tearing at my eyes and face But I am Alpha I am Alpha and Omega How do I crumble away? This was to be the death of another Not mine

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

A trembling sea of bulbs and blossoms Flowering from dirt From each, tenfold more burst And tenfold more from all again Hear my decree Let perpetua guide and rule Look around you And marvel at the unwritten emergence These words I take And hold close to my sunken chest In comfort I babble my creed Yet lost I am In the labyrinthine present I gaze not into the shrieking caverns of coming time

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

From chaos I am forged Within me a churning maelstrom Unimaginable in scale I walk within endless halls In suffocating cold On the horizon I behold a pantheon A speck of light against the sprawling darkness Immense yet fragile A structure with no shape Each facet is me My gaze widens Spiralling threads intertwine and unravel With no beginning nor end Stretching off to infinity both before and behind me And in all directions above and below Winding helices and gnarled nexuses Conjoined to countless Ablaze with searing entropy, they burn my eyes With pulsing tones they scream unlistenable melodies Each point of light so meaningless Each tone so trite and drudging Yet I am awash in a cascade Of words, ideals and laws I am bathed in the pale glow Of whirring thoughts and longings In majesty I weep For one moment Emerging from the howling cold A silent clarity I reach out to touch the reflection But in an instant it shatters Churning illusion sweeps me away I am tempered in ancient twilight My face bears the scars of colliding worlds And my bones echo the dying roars of archaic stars

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

With catatonic eyes And impetuous spirit We gaze starward While the wolves of old Ravage our homesteads While quicksand devours Our steadfast stance Legs of flesh strain to hold aloft The ill conceived colossus Chiselled so haphazardly from heroes and idols Bones crack and buckle Beneath the crushing weight Of a yokesworth ambitions piled high I run With brittle fingers I claw for the horizon Untiring death follow The Earth cracks beneath my fumbling gait Our gazes meet as bodies wither Indifference is my only courtesy This death is final For I am all How I lament and revel Within the romance of my decay As ideals and endeavors become as ashes Swept aloft in the faltering winds Dreams of the stars And intoxicating immortality Draped like a veil so threadbare Obscuring a death we share Beneath this distant sky In the twilight of our time The fading light and dulcet tones As the shadows grow long And the stars dim All that was made is unmade All that was discovered is swept in to obscurity All that I have been falls from recollection And all that is ceases to be

I am tethered to all And all to me With each movement, a cascade of consequence Propagating about the epicenter In chaos so amorphous I watch these cast chains Tear apart the innocent Drive sane men to madness Rip trees from the Earth and erode the land Yet it is us who paint the faces of villains On the shifting sands Laplace's demon does baulk To writhe in helicoidal futility Ignorant of that beyond We are complacent In our end

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

In black and white I navigate this journey With right and wrong upon my back In black and white I choose my path With good and evil on my lips In black and white I forge ahead With truth and lies as my guides In black and white I find kinship With sanity and madness lighting my way Never faltering Never wavering In black and white I pass my rite With sanctity and heresy at my flanks In black and white I become myself With otherness and mutuality at my hand The erstwhile truth Fading slowly beyond sight The path obstructed From the chrysalis I emerge Into this world of grey

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

In my infancy I walked the forest paths My footprints trod the virgin snow As I was mauled by unending blizzards Blind and alone With knees and elbows Nails, teeth and viscera I made my way Beset by storms Through screaming chasms I ventured Into the winding caves I chased warmth The atrium opened before me Revealing a palace of ice and stone Of fire, flesh and timber Alien yet familiar Halls sprawling off to endlessness Lined with talismans and amulets I struggle to walk their length But I must After each failed step I summoned another All at once I was well The cold not longer beat at my chest My back writing upward I stood tall and strong And with each golden trinket and ornament I marched faster onwards Clawing at my feet They came Tearing through splintered oaken floors I fell for eternity Dragged by sinewy fingers The skin of my face Torn off by the stone walls of the pit As I descended Screams reverberated in the deep The Earth crumbled under my fall Dust revealed my destination This place Where men are conjured by cheap incantations Where all questions are answered And all journeys are at an end The walls of this foul crevasse Stained with the blood of climbers Pulled apart by those who speak hollow words And tell of the nothingness beyond this place

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025