Evergreen

We stray learning balance between time Your innocence emanates but wisdom still ignored Quiet and calm a wordless devotion you share Our thought like wind Remind us of what we were We're killing the purest, in disbelief we often lie And when you bloom will you leave her behind Or use your light to shine the way Caught in the doom innocence left behind Your words give us sight We live to feel alive Untethered, controller of worlds Still gilded and bright Teach me your ways Unlock the doors I shut so long ago Can you hold onto the innocence, as the universe toils and turns? Or can you call upon the gods and radiate the way you do now? We're killing the purest In disbelief we often lie Will you stay untethered Where now your innocence is left behind And when you bloom will you leave her behind? Caught in the doom innocence left behind We live to feel alive Untethered, controller of worlds Still gilded and bright Teach me your ways, unlock the doors I shut so long ago I find color in your words beguiling ghosts in your eyes Untethered, controller of worlds Still gilded and bright

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Evergreen becomes me Resistant child grown of wood and branch Despondent, lost in flux Distort the images of who I am Searching for fire I felt the fall pulling me back again As seasons changed, I spun the earth My hands felt full of stone and hardened Time left, construct of all our fears Time left, it becomes the catalyst for failure I'll miss the winter ways The frost plumes breathing loud within Sound and shake that kept the glow A passion beaming from our eyes And at the end I gave all of me to you Shed skin and felt alive So send your waters tonight and Wash THE memories away Nothing looked the same when The ice dripped down my eyes Gaze against a reflection of myself Now worn and winded vitals keep me trudging on Made of wood branch breaking while I grow Gaze against from roots to roads Beside a shadow laid frayed and waiting One day I'll look back, following along, retracing Beside a shadow laid frayed and waiting Outstretched arms to bring me home Stare back from the Evergreen Rest my bones Bring me home, under the night rest my bones Shadows balance on worlds Under the night, into the abyss

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

I fold, I give into myself Let these tendril branch out and wrap around me No longer a motive inside this drift Learning to let go of the great resist Forever a mortal man, and nothing else A mortal man, and nothing else Reflecting as life hands you life Peaceful tendril wrap your arms around me so I feel free Married to ideals and nothing else, I've learned to let this go My body unto the slow Take in water, respire Feel deep blue, expire Attached to an ideal, I relinquish I fell exempt Take in water, respire I fell exempt Balance the world between the gales of madness Rocked in sway, no anchors to hold Never as I could be Balance the world between the gales of madness Tow the line, search for peace, detach from the worst of me Into the deep, eternally Reveal to me Where do I wander when I let go? Or do I drift inside this slow? Images of everything can we conceive what we believe? Outside a falseness and outside our fear Peaceful tendril, wrap your arms around me so I feel free I fell free inside this slow I've learned to let this go

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Hopeful, a design we forget Lost in translation of yesterday Sunk in worrisome sand Futures slip away, and we forget We focus on the present we overlook the loved Meaningless beautiful days banked away Sifting through the rot of carrion memories We let these granules sway our lives Worthless burdens embellished Buried alive, we implode Piece yourself back together Just a fractured face in ancient stone Worn away by a desolate wind We focused on the present We overlooked the loved Distancing myself from within, I feel it We separate and spin I can see myself unravel We get lost in the flutter, my feet sink back in sand Climb and climb exhausted it doesn't matter Release my body into the expanse Into the fray I can feel it, it pulls at me I can feel it, it’s gripping me Not ready now I won't give in This life won't end Sunk in this meaningless sand

Was it worth anything? So much time wasted cut the lights out and I felt alone Choking on self-inflicted agony as I was stranded Everything flickered so far away An illusion built with my own hands See past the waving colors and lights Beyond the edge where I belong One day at a time, the glowing great repeat Alive inside the calm I hear the whispering wind as the sirens call Sing me back to sleep The glowing great repeat Guide me home Incubated, I see that we only matter Rush over and build me dreams in waking life Open up my eyes Stand still, searching for the sound The glowing rhythm in my chest Quiet and forever still The warmth wraps its arms around me

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Bleed for a lifetime, but remain fixed To challenge existence and Push through the bleak to find the end And in my head, the mystery of man And in my head, we'll see the brighter days Eyes blaze through lifetimes A visionary's dream come to being Chased to the end and held on for dear life Find me inside the sound Between the secrets that surround us We rise above To follow the same path until we get it right With you, the good fight What stories to tell, you and I Perfect elements balance on what becomes us And if a light goes out, the mind will show the way Carry the flame for tomorrow, a sacred blaze Radiant hands flaring full of gold as we smash into infinity Challenge existence and stare into everything I've ever known To follow the same path Until we get it right With you, the good fight What stories to tell you and I We gave into it all - submerged ourselves Live by words of the same thought Blink and it's over Live by words of the same thought Breathe when you can When time keeps its promise I'll look back and see my mark I'll see my mark

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

We jump from dream to dream, being to being Same model, different world Same places, different shores We explore each other's eyes Drifting passengers outsiders searching for it Windows to worlds One piece of the puzzle in the same picture Tumble and perceive Our dreams grasp realms A passenger with false control Life strings lead to different worlds In night braille our souls un-hinge Same cloth but never knit Come set me free Born of ash, shaped with mud Carved from oak, we are ghosts In parallel lives, do we die or Disconnect lost frequencies? Our bodies, nothing more than a shell A pulse exchanged and let go This life, in a moment disappears I seem alright, as my body became undone Into the great expanse Into the expanse Reborn and erased A disappearance of faces Another version of me Through the great expanse Reborn and erased A passenger behind my eyes I hope you're there…

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025