Insurmountable

A sigh of stale air echoes A cut down to the bone Serrated blade digs deeper As blood and trust flows No good deeds gone unpunished No saint left un-betrayed The sun rises to another Sleepless and unrelenting day A familiar chorus plays As a bridge burns again More faith and hope mislain A tired lesson learned again Faith in god? Failed Faith in self? Failed Faith in others? Failed Faith in salvation? A joke Cries for help ignored All outreach ignored My emotions scorned Message received: worthless Waiting with bated breaths For opportunity to knock Silence, thick and viscous Absence, tangible Effort is unacknowledged All given, none got Thesun sets on another Empty and valueless day No eyes weep for me Seeing only what’s to gain Surprised despite the repetition Half-healed wounds ripped open again Faith in god? Failed Faith in self? Failed Faith in others? Failed Faith in salvation? A joke Cries for help ignored All outreach ignored My emotions scorned Message received: worthless All of life advances by design, cause and effect So what’s the reason for this? Predetermined to fail Destined to ache Fated to despair And in the end it's all for nothing, a lost cause There’s nothing to be gained except perdition All efforts to improve only increase the pain Each day I feel I’m moving farther from the goal Things cannot and will not get any better My muscles atrophy before the cancer spreads And skin rots The greatest lie ever told: Lean on me when you’re weak Delusions hammered home The end light seems so bleak Faith in god? Failed Faith in self? Failed Faith in others? Failed Faith in salvation? A joke Cries for help ignored All outreach ignored My emotions scorned Message received: worthless

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

These dark waters so clear So defined in my mind Pulling deeper within Haunting and driving mad Unwanted but still here All attempts are futile Ebbing never flowing Gaining in strength whenever opposed Compulsively resisting these waves Ritually defying treachery Fight it back or lose control Cycling out into absurdity Negatively reinforcing pain Reluctantly steer further in In faint whispers and screams This obsession rules me Avoid, compulse, cry out My voice but not my words Built up walls and blockades Knocked down by the tide Infection just festers Can’t cut it out or keep it in Compulsively resisting these waves Ritually defying treachery Fight it back or lose control Cycling out into absurdity Negatively reinforcing pain Reluctantly steer further in To this place I do not know Desperate to do anything To find the shores of sanity Ready to capsize and Belong only to these waves Blech Hidden just below the surface A flood of twisted urges Constantly threatens to leak out Unless consistently bailed All of this weight creates such pressure One of these days I’ll snap Without much left to hold onto This current will surely sweep me away

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Fear creeps through every inch of my body Telling me without a doubt that something’s not right A liar, a falsehood, a trick, sleight of hand I’ve been fooled before, won’t be fooled again Misinformation being spread like a plague Breathed one mouth to another, poisoning the herd With each new infection hysteria grows Vigilant to the faintest hint of dissent With defiant and unearned righteousness I’ll disarm your argument and frustrate you endlessly There’s no need to justify that which I know I’ll use any means to get to my end Reject the unenlightened Separate, block off, segregate, quarantine Slow the rate, the loss of our values Identify and amputate intolerable truth Draw the blinds on blinding light Manufactured relief, easy to believe Beckon, lure in, and overcome with passion In clever little phrases we’ll conjure the end Burying ourselves in a mountain of enmity Too busy looking out for a way to ascend To watch for the mine planted on the next step Desperately searching for a truth to believe One that is simple, easy to swallow Disagreeing And name calling ‘Til there’s nothing But hatred left Once close friends now Named opponent Loved ones happy Now that you’ve bled Push them down to quell their hate, Bring back silence that you crave Grip tight to what’s been gained For fear of being mistaken This hatred of conflicting information is likely of human design But when is the thirst for self-confirming data finally quenched, satisfied? Divided we stand to shout cross the aisle Commanding control of the facts In hopes of creating a better future for you In the end it’s united we’ll fall Misinformation being spread like a plague Breathed one mouth to another, poisoning the herd With each new infection hysteria grows Vigilant to the faintest hint of dissent In clever little phrases we’ll conjure the end Burying ourselves in a mountain of enmity Too busy looking out for a way to ascend To watch for the mine planted on the next step

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Defeated, accepting it Steeped in lethargy, inertia Piling on the loss, and bleeding more Nothing left to lose, when all is lost This journey drags on forever Methodically isolated I’ll remove myself from the herd Stronger alone, no, but free Free from judgement, free from limits Freed to explore the bottom To thoroughly search the depths Surveying and scanning the lower bounds Nowhere left to go but further down Once more alone, this worn out drama plays out once again A constant struggle across time searching for a direction Disease ridden pests flock in numbers, hoping to spectate As I climb this insurmountable obstacle None to rely on but me Abject waste that I am Rage rushes in but flushes out Hollow now, as the ache returns Never pleased Never comforted Never letting it out It’s not worth it Nothing can outweigh the pain of this failed existence Achieving does not rid me of this infection of guilt and shame Defiant to the end Bound and gagged trying to come out alive This pain fills Me like a well Boiling over Threatening to spill Facing a horrid climb These chains drag in the dirt Weighing down from birth Involuntary gauntlet I’d rather starve than to continue on living through this Sick of trying to ascend while hopelessly burdened Defiant to the end Bound and gagged trying to come out alive With facistic callous mandate I’m driven to ascertain The requirements for success In the eyes of countless beholders How I wish i could desert This nonstop reckless pushing for a clean solution There isn’t one Choosing to suffer rather than give in This climb will lead to our deaths We never will be truly happy ‘til its over And still we climb Choosing to suffer and to persist rather than give in Inch by inch I’ll climb, searching for solace, Searching for a handhold, hands bound all along This quest for peace is futile Arbitrarily designed How I wish i could desert This nonstop reckless pushing for a clean solution There isn’t one Choosing to suffer rather than give in This climb will lead to our deaths We never will be truly happy ‘til its over And still we climb Choosing to suffer and to persist rather than give in Once more alone, this worn out drama plays out once again A constant struggle across time searching for a direction Disease ridden pests flock in numbers, hoping to spectate As I climb this insurmountable obstacle

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025