The Divinity of Oceans

Alas! The Marquesas! Shun the beck'ning land! Choose the open sea instead To whatever end! Took down to wondrous depths Sullen we did go Where shapes of unwarped primal Gliding to and fro Father! Willst thou pity If dry're freshest cuts If eyelids crack - mummified Without trace of blood Lord, why would thou leave us so misled? How many warm hearts would cease to beat In the consequence of it?

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Masts are broken Men will break Yards are shattered Bodies shake Bulkheads battered - Planks are burst This ship is cursed - And so are we Where to head for? - Where will salvation lie? What to salvage? - What to leave behind? This must be a collective lucid dream For God's sake, make us awake! We sold our souls to the divinity of oceans, Bestowed our fortune to the demons of depth Thus now we are left stranded, Shipwrecked and collapsed Lost in the liquid desert Thousands of miles off from the main Uncertain obscurity underneath The surface cuts the world atwain A journey to unscrupulousness A trip to leery human mind A passage through ruthlessness of soil A trek towards ferocity A voyage into unknown A leap into the dark All our hopes are anchored to your mercy, Ye, almighty sea!

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Our boat lurches through damnation Utter madness embraces me Faces drawn my starvation As we dwindle into misery For a ray of hope we pray Yet of ruin we are aware In ports of doom we lay So I yeld to my despair I feel the iron surges Break inside my head I feel the boiling maelstroms Tear my mind to shreds Hence I rue This oath I swore As every moment Last for evermore This world is turned upside down By malisons of dire revenge All fleshly means run aground Hovering between life and death All sence fade away Darkness shall overcome! Will you sink to ageless gloom! Will you sigh out your soul! Will you never find a snug berth!

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Feel decay - Pale as clay And all washed away Blackest days Arcane our way - Gone astray And all washed away - Blackest days Shades of grey - Aeons of dismay - Blackest days Indulgentiam, absolutionem et remissionem Omnium peccatorum uestrorum Tribuat uobis omnipotens... But how could we forgive ourselves? For all we have done Redemption Lost: our lay Through wondrous depths We've walked our way Redemption Lost: our lay No rest for the wretched! No rest for the wicked!

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Death to the living Long life to the killers, Success to sailor's wives And greasy luck to whalers. Crush'd as the moth beneath thy hand We moulder to the dust Our feeble powers can ne'er withstand And all our beauty's lost. This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke. Death to the living, Long life to the killers, Success to sailor's wives And greasy luck to whalers.

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

Yes, we wept! Alas, how we wept. Our faith in our father, well kept. For God's sake: brave men we were! Too forward to abandon ourselves to despair. Tablets Of The Law: Heaven sent, Thou shalt not kill: thine commandment, Good Gracious, we set at naught, Yet, we braved the elements, tried to defy all odds. And his glassy, his distracted eyes, As though his will was bound and tied, He lay his head (down on the boat's gunwale) it took our breath, Few would live, while Coffin died. Detested archair urge to eat, Agonized by this peccant seed, Something errant, this moment owns, We caught ourselves A moment of weakness Gnawing bones.

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Neither long or meager lay Nor a comet on a July's day Would lead my righteous soul astray To cowardice, left hand's way Oil soaked timber, wooden bone Whatever fate - God knows alone I pray for him to watch our trail For I know: to kill we sail So sing, seaman, join my hymn of Blood and oil Sing her out, sing of our return to Rotten soil First Nantucket sleigh ride, see! Will be a kingly gift to me O! That is where I long to be Deep in the heart of the sea

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025