Rites of Separation

Elevated souls of gloom In between woken and dead Stories are told to the deaf Witnesses breaking an oath Of secrets forlorn Her tongue split in two With threats to kill Visions of violence I see through the lies An army at her command Brutal and weak, hand in hand Chained to the shadows A breath still warm Bleed, burn you beast Breathe while you can And bring your storm of ice The pictures enclosed A sentence taking shape The message dissolves Where lies the answer Your appearance is vanishing The tears you fear will heal your hate To wake up the anger Swallowing dust to flood your heart A healing process like vast fields in flames Molding parts and making marks Traces your body An outline that is you A revisit at the bottom Icy cold, darkness falls Drips of rain Like a worm you find your path in the soil Dig the earth Reach for the light Fingers and nails do the work Your aim is revenge This war has no victory An eye for an eye leaves you blind Talion, a blood feud Fueled by retribution

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Handed down to us A deeper lie we can not name Your fabricated truth Diseased and absent of meaning A script so devoid, of truth, of mercy, of compassion Empty threats A souvenir of remembrance Those not undead but unseen Of unknown name and origin Hunted, pursued, hated The black death In the eyes of the ignorant Who hunt in packs In the empty nothingness The mill of our times grinds a story About lives lived and hollow apathy Where solitude is sacred And where by greed they command Hunted, pursued, hated They command They command Skeleton structures Born to be ruins Smeared histories and scratched timelines Underlying impulses Once deserted Gazing at the bolted door A map leading you Hunting you to taking a fall Pull the trigger On angst and wasted time Fire to fear their associates Your decisions carry the weight of them Laying bare their thoughts Soft murmurs spiraling through Migrates to those willing to hear Our voice speaks so low Never owned our past Wander the long road through

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Claws carving a story in the ground Moss holding it down Moulded memories abstained Freaks with bare teeth Grin and tear with violent intent Wardens of terror The makers of sorrow and violators of space Load the chamber Aim through the fumes Striving forwards Turning, touching, trembling Sliding backwards Together but alone Hearts pounding on The air is hard to breath Like a nightmare The escape is slow and unreal The taste of blood Like iron in your mouth Thorns weaving an armor to protect you from peril The prey becomes the predator Thousands will fall on this earth When the tyrants become the hunted Severed foes A hurricane of fire Fall in line Adapt to everyday's chants Hold on while life lies High praised men take your life

Rites of separation Cutting away my former self Ticking like heartbeats The theft of my time Pictures of danger entangle my thoughts Screaming so useless, my mouth is a trap Choking on words, your name is a blur Sedated, nightmares, phobia Emotional landscapes Their cure is a hoax My blood is on fire My lungs filled with water Skin burns of fever but my body is cold as ice Cold like I am dead Unable to speak, my brain burst to flames Bring on the madness, it whispers so close A transplant feeding off me Filling the circles, pus seeping through Minutes became hours, days, months Eternal night, my back to the sun The battle fought In hindsight, an uneven fight Change needs to come after death has been seen I remain motionless, awaiting my peace Sleepless nights and woken days Writing testimonies from the dead

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

When fall is falling and winter weeps They stand alone on the hills blackened by waste Frostbitten faces and fanatic screams, syllables masked as words Carrying the burden on their wings Dreams mirrored in vast promises This desert land, these stones have stood for a thousand years But on our watch a lethal doze was injected The wheels turn on this scorched earth, end it here or walk away Forced back to the trenches, a gateway to a world that rots A discussion in mono, case closed The secret is out, the favors asked They corrode, disintegrate to nothing We have been proven guilty, bail refused When spring sighs and summer sleeps The roots will turn and dig the graves Awaiting the dead hour They will rise, reach for our throats Bloodthirsty, ready for battle The waves will sweep the wreckage away As parasites we lose control A smooth passage to the world to come In the silence lies the naked truth Our words ring hollow Awaiting the timeless, nameless void In the sky, beneath the black soil The stones that have stood for a thousand years, disintegrates Becoming one with us The fires are still burning Like warnings for the lost Echoes of forgotten eras Fade away into nothing

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025