La Litanie des cendres

Is there anything left Along the dying skyline Apart from this light which fades Kissing the world goodbye? At dusk, when shadows grow Behold the shining veil The secrets kept unfolded The wind, a sigh from the angels Burden of a meaningless life Infinite darkness freezes the hearts Godlike wrath gathering clouds Nights of pain upon the empty earth And I drown, and I fly And I’m hearing the wind And I cry with the clouds And I’m hearing the past And I pray, I’m away And I close my eyes And I stand alone In a little shrine of clouds And I drown, and I fly Surrounded by their graves A fall A land A call A shrine Running through empty vales Resting in a shadowed sky Flying away from the moon Falling and sleeping In the shrine of fallen clouds Waving goodbye to the angels Vanished angels Never existed Leaving and keep away from the moon

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

I don’t tell the truth Remain in the light And I hold the breath of all those yesterdays Feel you in my heart Remain in the light And I always see the cross of yesterday Confusion of my soul This loss, my curse At night, I stay awake I am the guardian of my own hell Feeding the pyre of love-filled dreams The merciless life Consumed my illusions I cherish those fairytales Even though they were never mine To reach out for peace of mind Ashes, Ashes glowing in the rain My ashes Dead and remain in the light Frozen fire always burns And cover my ashes And the cross of yesterday... A longing without an end A memory that shall not leave From time to time It seems so pointless That a cruel rage weakens my heart The fragile silence echoes my pain Underneath the cross Protected by its shadow I gather our old treasures Delusive haven against myself Where my ashes always remain

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

Drowned by this embrace The shining sky starts to unshape The gliding rays of sunlight are bleeding farewell The pines are moaning as my heart melts A gentle wind makes the flowers shiver and shake The sanguine gleams exalt our sorrow Last hopes are buried still tomorrow I remember those lonely walks Along the moors and the vineyards Desolate, bleak orchards Nature’s demise in vivid beauty Darkness is coming something dies inside We’re all grief-stricken by this scenery of night

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I just know he’s feeling the scars of everything I just know he’s burning all of the grieves Cold, cold, cold Cold were his memories and cold were his fading cries Reveal him all that you feel and forget what you have Give him the remaining tears and the ruins of your core End Come on to the silence End I’m dwelling in the light An unknown light I just know he’s painting a secret on the floor I just know he’s standing here in the nothingness I just know he’ll never move and I don’t know if I’ll come to him Run to the lands of his mind and forget what you have Give him the remaining tears and give up all your life Run to the lands of his mind and forget what you have Give him the remaining tears and give up all your life End Come on to the silence End I’m dwelling in the light End, gathering the angels End, we’re dwelling in the light An unknown light

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Like the poisoned scent of my hollow dream A deadly wind touches my face and freezes my last tears The absence of love inflames my sadness for living How would I go on without the promise to feel again? I’m standing alone While you’re vanishing in the sky I breathe no more You leave me behind with no words Moonflower Your beauty shines over my soul But I’ll never get to you I have seen her silver petals in the growing nightlight And I hoped that she would fulfil my deepest dream I didn’t know that I would exhaust her soul I didn’t know that she would fade some days after And all my memories remain deserted by her Surrounded by deepened shades In this place I never belonged A deadly anguish embracing me My wishes lost as I drown in fear And I mourn her loss In this abyss of gloom Waiting for a foreseen light not coming back Like curtains to hide the wounds of the afterlife Feeling its presence as never before Even though I might never come back Someone has told me that I was the one Someone has sworn me I would find the princess I have seen the light within the darkness I followed the star that burnt in my soul Someone has told me that I was the one Someone has sworn me I would awake her Blinded by the absent light Of my beautiful Moonflower

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025