Beyond All Light

Twilight and high tide. Drowning myself in the darkness. God’s light removed. Innocence lost in the current. Born from the stars of a different hemisphere I am the black flame Swallower of light. Abuse to photosynthesize. Fictitious peace blooming in distress. Morning glory mourning through Vegetation whispered lullabies. Looming dawn tearing at the night. Zasas! The world tree’s void is my seed embracing ideation fantasy. Prayers/pleads/screams Nowhere to hide but eternal night. In reflection, through taking the helm Divine presence deceased Truth within this solitude No trinity, only me. Violence, heralding in a new path. A new era of unrelenting woe Imprisoned within my caustic flesh. A sentence not placated by time. Abandoned and misled from life. No guided path back from sacrifice.

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

All my failures begging for an end. These false promises becoming anchors Drowning with the hopes of something real. Estranged to this person I've become I feel contempt and diseased. Solidifying my hatred of forced existence. Pestilence pulses through my veins Paralyzing me. It keeps me from draining it all. This place I dwell is a hollowed man. Boarded up and black with rot. I dream in better lights with less reflection. Shadows upon shadows cast inside Like death masks piled on until there’s no identity. I know there must be more to me. I raise my eyes upward, into the night. Into the darkness that existed before the light. Downward to death, the foundation of all life. Sigil marked for non-existence. This cursed blood can't kill what's already dead inside. It becomes misplaced to those I call friends. As I attempt to terraform this misery. Caustic is my nature. Eroding life around me Self-hatred binds my will to change. As a lion let me drink from blood of your Christ Awaiting salvation with open jaws Shepherding hope into the belly of the beast. Digesting tired faith and shitting out lies I don't deserve happiness. I haven't earned the right to self-peace. Preservation through malice is the irony As I'm consumed with thoughts of death. When time comes I'll enter my forest with no ribbon, just rope.

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Desired by none if not myself. Time spent in ill will and tail in mouth. as every moment proves worse than the last. This broken currency enough to repeat forever. So many mistakes and with those even more regret. A claim of ruined flesh is now ruining me. Endlessly. Yet so many things broken inside and out. I carry the torch you left behind. A charred reminder of how this fucking ends. Eulogy laced with a silver tongue As rind is ripped from the fruit of life Boring out a void And consuming the earth around me. Until there's no further down to fall. No success worth sharing No markers to prove my worth No words to match the power of yours Only timeless loss. Mimicking your misery Becoming you in death and knowing when it can end. All that bound us was illness. Now it’s only mine to bear. Forgone is this cycle. Endless desire to obtain fulfillment Forgone is the desire to find peace Within something so subhuman. I don't seek fortune Just acceptance from the dead. Egocentric as dust lining everything Taking claim to age and time. Existence lining the corners of a box Marked for forgiven lies and physical abuse.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Hope slumbers In abyss. Swallowing The light. Long since leaving This world behind. Infrequent and feeble. Bound to its imperfections. Entombed together within this common enemy. Endless search for answers. Together in this void Prodding the kindling anew. Now there's nothing Left to burn. Nothing else to give. Freedom is a finite being. This decorated cage will wash clean, Its biomass cycles until the ground is gone. Foundations collapsing all around Footprints in the sand, drowning with the tide. Infinity swept away as dreams become denied. There is always something But in the end, its ambivalence has to die.

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

A sea of hollowed stalks Breaking in the wind. Weathering the torment Without sickle bringing end. Diseased wrought and dying Lusting for the dust. Soil longing to be nourished Selfishly awaiting the rotting husk. In this bountiful godless life! Call to the end. A playwright always has a stop. Burdened by social taboos Nailed to the fucking cross. Ending life before god’s time A testament to true satanic rite. Transcending beyond all light. Illuminated by fire This weakened state Like a temple set ablaze. Tearing at the roots To purge this buried fear. Shedding this christian skin To be reborn in blackest sin! Scorching this field of purgatory Intent on ending this plague. Every grain blanketed by ash As pantheons Dawn a reddish haze. I'll lay down my arms When everything I know is dead and gone. There is no dying, alone. Only leaving or being left behind. In this bountiful godless life Nothing is forbidden. Doing what must be done through self-annihilation. No honor in existing for others. Everyone will fail you, in due time. Fear no man, or god As you walk away from the sun.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

This is not existence. It was never meant to be. Rehabilitation by domination. Humility. Depravity. Cuts made to remove physical beauty. Forever reminders of what I have become. Infinite as memories, until forgotten. Not cured of this pain, Just removed from its presence. Hope hollowed out. Filled in with negativity. Laid to rest within this concrete womb. Feeding me lies and false hopes. Numbered and cataloged Within this mother I abhor. Nurtured with the waste of this world. Rotting alive. Forever night. Forced christ Forcing worthless life. Failing me like humanity failed you. Martyred for the ease of affection. Helplessly abused by the words of change. There is nothing we can do to heal this wound Terminally nurtured from birth. Shedding this christian skin To be reborn in blackest sin! Steeple laid to waste Like the moments leading me here. Bell tarnished in the charred remains. Patina takes its toll. Everything is elemental loss. Hanging like the fool on the cross. Wound with twine of death. Eternity begins with a single step. This is the first of the last. This moment bound forever. What's cursed must die. And it's only getting worse. I beg for your forgiveness. I wish you knew The hell inside my head. Every dream I've ever had has died But soon enough I’ll get it right. On my terms In my own light. Energy returns to the universe. Forever night.

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025