An Absence of Clarity

Floating up high Above the world She sees all and knows Nothing can touch No one can feel The nothing that she is What is her life? She needs to know Or else it could be extinguished How can nothing be effected by nothing? She sings all alone Butterfly wings No one can see She will never feel again Out of body Detached from the world She neither loves nor hates There is no joy No regret Nothing can have no emotion Killed by her thoughts Dead on the inside She exists only in her mind When the sense of self is lost a new self must be born So what will you do when the inevitable comes and your wings are torn? Floating up high Above the world She sees all and knows Nothing can touch No one can feel The nothing that she is What is her life? She needs to know Or else it could be extinguished How can nothing be effected by nothing? She sings all alone Butterfly wings No one can see Killed by her thoughts Dead on the inside

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Shunned and tossed away Ugly, pitiful trash Atrophy, decay Bitter blood and bile Stripped and skinned and hung Minimal remorse Praying for a savior Mouth and mind of empty hope Left to die Coward - Callous Victim - Butcher Bloody hooks and blades Anger - restraints All forces and traces of will Denied - Hate Aimed at a beloved killer Who can only smile Clawing whilst tumbling down Screaming at the pain Like a callous One becomes used to the pain And aching, throbbing and eventually Bleeding - Breaking Tearing Associated with joy And love - Pleasure Centers tingling at the thought of Torture - Salivating Blood becomes the bane of your existence Docile whilst tumbling down Laughing at the pain Another killer made Through Stockholm Syndrome Set free Kept alive The victim becomes the butcher The parasite becomes the host Hatred begets hatred just as pain begets pain In the end we all become the way we were raised A blank slate written on by hand with omnipotency Shall crave more stimulation of the same good or bad Humans fall in love with whatever creates a pattern Adapting to the form of stimulant regardless of source The beauty of our species is the ability to change Minds and thoughts and bodies may be crushed and rearranged The cycle repeats itself Shunned and tossed away Ugly, pitiful trash Atrophy, decay Bitter blood and bile Stripped and skinned and hung Minimal remorse Praying for a savior Mouth and mind of empty hope Left to die

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Clones of clones All common enemies Working against one another for a common goal A race enslaved, institutionalized Held down by the iron chains they forged with their own hands Blind all their eyes And teach them to Do as they're told Do not ask why Mute all their thoughts And quiet their wills Increase the damage Kill what makes humans animals There is no room for instinct Bred to follow years of tradition Meant to excel, but never to exceed Blind all their eyes And teach them to Do as they're told Do not ask why Mute all their thoughts And quiet their wills Increase the damage Kill what makes humans animals There is no room for instinct Further the degradation to our minds All in the effort of advancing mankind Listen to the words Pay attention Be all you can be Within the limits Follow all the rules Disobey them, Live your life in captivity The world is getting smaller Its every man for himself Carry with you a blade and a smile And only strike when the back is turned Only strike when the back is turned Such are the rules for success The world is getting smaller Its every man for himself Carry with you a smile and a dagger And only strike when the back is turned Only strike when the back is turned Such are the rules for success When a man is asked to abandon All that he was given from birth There can only be one result And that is total conformity of the soul

In dark places In this world There lurks spectators Following always Omnipresent Ever watching We are all watched by the eye Just a minion Just a pawn For our leaders Our betters For our own good, they observe Omnipresent Ever watching We are all watched by the eye Do not speak for the walls have ears Keep your head down, stay away from sight Do not speak for the walls have ears Keep your head down, stay away from sight I refused to be watched anymore I think its time for a change Take me away Kill me now I refuse to comply Are you watching me now? Look closely Watch me tear down the walls of this world Eye Blind the eye Blind the eye

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Pain Driven to point of madness Breathe The smell of sweet destruction Changed Once innocent, now tainted Graves Shallow and made impromptu To the sun I say goodbye The things I'll do Shift paradigms The one you know Is dead and gone Through changing eyes I see the moon Leave the day Bring me into night My change accomplished Feel the wrath I'm destroying Destroyed My life and love and family Ablaze My home and my belongings Life Became too much to handle So I Resolved to turn to blackness To the sun I say goodbye The things I'll do Shift paradigms The one you know Is dead and gone Through changing eyes I see the moon Leave the day Bring me into night My change accomplished Feel the wrath I'm destroying myself The fall of order by my hand Astonished all across the land With failing hearts and frail bodies The ones I loves fell to their knees Running wild, flee the scene I've left behind a trail obscene With failing hearts and frail bodies The ones I loved fell to their knees

I, a slave unto the moon I bow my head to the floor and pray for black I am buried among the stars The speak to me, tell me the words of a new god I worship the night My goddess I am one with the dark Nocturnal Lucifer calls my name Years and years pass until I awake The sun has abandoned me and I mourn my soul I worship the night, my goddess I am one with the dark, nocturnal Lucifer calls my name I must repent for whats been done for i wish for i need, to see the sun Now this cloak doesn't feel right Now reborn is my sight I am regretting my choice Consciousness, conscience now voiced Regret this path As twilight dwindles I await the sun I do not wish to again be tempted by the lies beckoning me to close my eyes forever It is now that i make amends for all the wrongs I did commit during the blackness that blinded these now open eyes welcome back into the light

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Deep within the confines A cage, a prison cell Locked tight, without the possibility' No holes for escape One light shining through the cell Unknown source, questionable direction Dead silence, all alone Concrete separating from reality What is and what could be done held back by one layer The power to create and destroy held back only by bone There must be a way to break this barrier without ascending to the next world The soul, a man's personal god Channeled and put to work Let loose from within its cage Could tear the world in two What is and what could be done held back by one layer The power to create and destroy held back only by bone There must be a way to break this barrier without ascending to the next world With death as a deterrent from setting our souls free We are trapped without the abilities That are caged within our minds Creation, destruction. to make physics dysfunction All is kept hidden by only one layer of bone Damn the greater ones for locking it up Cursed this damned body for holding it back All the potential of mankind held back Painting words within with no exterior outlet Conjuring up fantasies which should Be realized but never can nor will Crack the skull Shed the skin Stay on this plane Use your potential With death as a deterrent from setting our souls free We are trapped without the abilities That are caged within our minds Creation, destruction. to make physics dysfunction All is kept hidden by only one layer of bone

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

Brother, my brother Untimely ripped from this world Swallowed by earth, my soul left to bleed An act of conviction And as we stand two worlds apart My life force drained, my slowing heart Plagued with the thoughts of retribution Tears fall in the presence of rain Awake or dreaming, we can no longer tell Our world has flooded Solace only in a final farewell Longing for solace A prayer for reprieve Six feet never felt so deep I raise my hands to blackened skies But you hear not my tortured cries Your story forever left untold Tears fall in the presence of rain Awake or dreaming, we can no longer tell Our world has flooded Solace only in a final farewell Only reflections The mirror holds the portrait of a memory An altered image Now holds the remnants of what used to be To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die.

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Within the light, hidden shadows Desolate one, take control Conquer them all, through mind corruption They'll take the bait Throw the bone When the light rises, I remember To forget the dark The shadows of the night surrender Surrender yourself This protection can only last so long How long? What will be of the ever after? Pray for your sins This is the end Carry the torch, ever burning We'll light the way To your demise Their enemies lay in pieces All that remains Up in flames When the light rises, I remember To forget the dark The shadows of the night surrender Surrender yourself This protection can only last so long How long? What will be of the ever after? These are your fears Pray for forgiveness, for your time has come The first ones to flal are the fortunate ones Trample the weak and hurdle the dead Paving the streets with the blood of the innocent Sink into your ever after (Twilight's Reprieve) Pray to your god, for the hour is now Your soul will be taken, your flesh hits the ground The dead will be eating your rotting remains The story has changed, but the ending's the same Pushing the fire This deserves to explanation One solution, extermination No Mercy Nothing to lose Nothing to gain Twilight's reprieve will join you in your grave

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025