Spiritus in Terra

(A Song of Remembrance) As the sun rises and falls And constellations crawl across dark skies Our time here grows ever shorter And the silence of the void beckons us all We are given just one life And each day our fate is left in our hands Choosing whether to build or to destroy As the tides of time crawl across the sands With each moon that passes A life drifts away With each moon that passes Souls slowly decay We may not pass into legend But we will be noted for our deeds Shadows of today cast into eternity And our abstract marks on the world Shall become our legacy The changes that we wrought Shall live on forever Monuments to dreams of the dead And when we return to the earth And leave life to others Our spirit remains and endures

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of Longing) Yet another year has passed Things change yet stay the same Times I've lost but not forgotten Glories I can never reclaim Sometimes we yearn For something that never was Wishing to return To lands that never were I travelled this road with friends and foes Many were left by the side of the track Willing or not, now they are absent We look to the past, but cannot go back Timeless demons Ancient ghosts This time was given to us Not to hold, but to see And remaining forever in that moment Was never meant to be

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of the Forest) Ten thousand years ago, when ice fled north And water set Albion adrift once more The land turned to emerald; great oaks burst forth And took their place, united as Sherwood It once was said these woods were home To outlaws roaming free of feudal bonds Hunters dwelling amongst the trees And refuge sought beneath their fronds A place of solace Our ancient forest Then men carved at the woods, 'til little remained Memories and spirits harshly cast away Now only a remnant holds against the blight Yet maybe it will prevail, once we are dead and gone

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of Hubris) Wisdom of the ages, passed through generations From father to son, from mother to daughter A shared legacy of a people Their knowledge, their heritage, an ancient gift By voice or rune or paper passed Mankind's knowledge in words held fast Until the day when those words moved swiftly Burning bright, then fading to obscurity A weapon that cannot be wielded After today's sun has set A shield that brings us no safety In battles with tomorrow's foes How quick we are to forget the old ways Spurning the gifts of the past Wildly we embrace our fleeting power Seldomly knowing the cost Today's wisdom May never be known To those that follow in years to come Cursed to wander alone Or maybe they are blessed To prosper in innocence Which came at our expense Our downfall, our descent into impermanence

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of Timelessness) Each kingdom leaves its mark Long after the king is gone Battles fought and monuments raised in steadfast stone Ancient paths meander Through the lands of the present day Ruined forts stand guard As sentinels of yesterday Strata of existence Layer after layer Forming the Albion of today Spiritus in Terra We hear the whispers of the ancients on the wind Over fens and woods and dales come messages of old Windswept hills eternally stand astride the verdant earth Forests cast their shadows on the soil From which all life began

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of Change) Once as a child I looked out from home Over the fields I saw travellers passing in the night On their way to destinations unknown Time erodes us Life escapes us Once as a man I returned to that place And traced the paths I had walked before My people were gone, but I felt them still We can never truly return Because we never truly leave Now I am the traveller Looking back upon my former home I can never return to those times But they live on in me, in this place

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

(A Song of Acceptance) When my time has come Lay me here to rest Looking out to the west Where the sun sets As it will for me Do not mourn long For I will be home Watching over the land I loved What fate will bring us I cannot know Our world may change, our people too But I did what I could Within the shackles of fate No more and no less Will the world offer to you In death my name will be forgotten And lost to history So I did what I could In the time offered to me Now my time has come And here I do rest Looking out to the west Where the sun sets, as it did for me Farewell

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025