What 'fore the Dawn Withers
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A force rots the bough<br/> And rusts the machine,<br/> Like a cold blade<br/> Plunged into the world.<br/> It hides from view,<br/> In the miasma of privation,<br/> The clearer smoke<br/> That perchance results<br/> From cauterizing<br/> The wound.<br/> <br/> Would that man<br/> Reached into his soul <br/> And there in its soil,<br/> Pulled up the weeds:<br/> Radiating tendons<br/> Of ill-action, thought, feeling<br/> Ever obscurely ascending<br/> From opaque depths;<br/> The legacy of a flight<br/> Upward, but not onward.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
I looked out the window<br/> Of my mind's eye<br/> And beheld a sinking universe<br/> In a thousand gleaming hues;<br/> ‘Twas so many beads of light<br/> Heaving into a swirling blackness.<br/> <br/> The ship has lost its rudder,<br/> The pilot has jumped overboard, <br/> An abdication of his throne. <br/> Sharks prowl the wine dark waters<br/> Around the event horizon,<br/> Where naught but shadows lie.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
A faint star leads me, but I know not where,<br/> As the ground slowly turns beneath my feet. <br/> In the dead of night, cold winds chill the air,<br/> And at day, I am tormented by heat. <br/> To find my long sought promised land I swear,<br/> That place with untroubled stillness replete. <br/> For nothing else do I give any care, <br/> For nothing else can well my life complete.<br/> But on my many sojourns far and wide <br/> I have not found anything that comes close -<br/> Not even in my dreams does it reside -<br/> To that promised land, for all I have tried. <br/> So on this arid sphere I trudge morose, <br/> And surmise that paradise is denied.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Hark the herald angels sing, but no more;<br/> Their voices, weak and overtaxed, now bray.<br/> For who could, if he to be honest swore,<br/> Rejoice and be glad all the night and day? <br/> <br/> And if true their power to sing ne'er wanes,<br/> Then what can one conclude but this:<br/> That voice and song so joyous are their chains,<br/> And ‘tis slaves they must be, lacking in bliss.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
I realize now that a messenger came<br/> Ambling softly along the Earth’s coiled frame.<br/> Alas, I heard neither approach nor tale,<br/> Then awoke in the same tearful vale.<br/> <br/> It is hard for the bard to raise his voice<br/> O'er the din in the tavern of men's souls,<br/> For by the hearth do mad devils rejoice<br/> In dousing the sparks of the once hot coals.
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
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No light can penetrate<br/> The inhalation of dread<br/> The fury over wretchedness:<br/> Omens of a lost lore<br/> Bestowing an awareness <br/> Like a breeze before a storm<br/> That all things yearn<br/> To be forevermore
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Nature is ignored:<br/> Foolishness strains mortals<br/> Nature’s Law forbids:<br/> Destruction envelopes the world<br/> Solutions fail, previous warnings deferred<br/> Foolishness; the norm for humanity<br/> Never learning from past mistakes<br/> Life; a journey of <br/> Psychological inferno<br/> A never ending<br/> Diverge of emotions <br/> Happiness never lasting<br/> Misery torturing my being<br/> Death; the destination for all<br/> The end of petty sentiments<br/> And squalor over meaninglessness;<br/> Human perceptions eradicated<br/> As the Unknown emerges<br/> Its promise un-equaled
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
Rain spills from a darkened sky,<br/> Bitter grey shafts on Winter's edge.<br/> Poignant remembrance of a deep past<br/> Lasting but a moment<br/> Surfaces from the depths of Being.<br/> Past funerals emanate;<br/> The ages of Man but a drop.<br/> A notch in the creaking bones<br/> Of endless Time
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026
The roaring storm dissipates<br/> An echo of a dying god<br/> Hurled into insignificance<br/> As the orange gleam of dusk arrives<br/> On the altar of twilight I sit<br/> Hung on the black sea of Nothingness<br/> Far from the fibrous sinews <br/> Of a world stretched too thin
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 06, 2026