The Human Burden

Horror clawing at the surface Through the fractures false clarity Thoughts neglect to challenge the light It blinds us from the wretched shadows of unearthly suborn Faceless shapes obscured to mortals Shrouded by divinity Dripping thorns from rains of blood And through our searing screams of repute We are ordained deathless Bound to perished flesh Reborn of a quiet terror Drowning in its seething fury With the burning darkness failing We drift further to the edge of ruin as the world is devoured Banished from the barren earth Winds carry us to damnation We are embraced by the light and Throughout the throes of enslavement We are ordained deathless Bound to perished flesh Lingering Echoes immersed in the depths of false light Deafening Murmurs atone for the fall of honor Souls avoiding the abyss below Death unleashing ruthless plagues of ill Rancorous Rotting remains of misguided failure Malevolent Follow this form into the lights horizon No! Unaware Emptiness reigns in the light of worship Inhuman Leading the weak to the place of harvest Our perceptions Deposed by deceit Lamentations Over our remains Though the light will burn our souls We will remain deathless Bound to perished flesh Horror clawing at the surface Through the fractures false clarity Thoughts neglect to challenge the light It blinds us from the wretched shadows of unearthly suborn Shadows of unearthly suborn

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

An icon to subconscious adherence Deceived by the shroud of primacy This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart through litanies of self-regard This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart The sightless lay weakened in the crushing void Concealed by the shroud of primacy This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart through litanies of self-regard This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart The phobia that we are obsolete if there is no great purpose Has us restrained Have we forgotten that the foundations on which we rely are laid with the remains of our dead? Altered principles are tearing through the frail skin of integrity, Shredding our being in a calculated frenzy Pure death will purge The burden of fate that has our perceptions obscured We will see deprived souls returning Piercing through the shroud of primacy Departed from devotion and purpose Rid of the shroud of primacy This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart through litanies of self-regard This mindless misconception has torn the world apart Torn the world apart

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

Ominous death Dictating our lives Without judgement or thought Tearing mortality from the flesh A harrowing fate Confined to this tomb The human burden This affliction of constant decay Treacherous destiny Supreme humanity cannot comprehend Civilization has tried and failed To avoid the pits of flesh below The stench of foreboding Is entombed deep amongst the roots An aura of fear Enforced by the hounds of hypocrisy Chosen from birth To have faith in such deceit Facing the lies Created by mediums of the light Unable to find A path to immortality We fall towards faith And wait to be enshrined in paradise How do we rise above disgrace? Unless devout and truly pure We’re left to dwell upon our error Our transgressions, our real essence How do we rise above the shame? Through misery, despondency We have to live on our knees Everlasting absolution Forced to believe in death’s embrace

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Facing the fallen sun, all hope is dead Bound to the flames of the world’s salvation Fading thoughts we have betrayed Ghosts of light haunt the skies We are descending Through the years of desolation Waves of extinction The cities lay dead and decaying Winds of ruination A barren world is what awaits us This trepidation Compels us to the rule of the divine Can we see the false in the shadows? Burning in winds of searing vehemence Lost to illusions of ascendancy Seeking the light of false divinity Souls bound to supreme nothingness Desolation Waves of extinction The cities lay dead and decaying Winds of ruination A barren world is what awaits us This trepidation Compels us to the rule of the divine To the tyranny of the divine The decrepit are absorbed, their flesh bound to undoing Subdued by deceit, they are majestically led astray Masters deplore these utterly weakened forms Whilst their congregated minds slaughter the defiant Eyes are sealed, fate is decided Pleading to the unforgiving is a practice in futility Yet we still open our arms to these great deceivers Immersed amongst the benevolent, hidden in the shadows

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

Trapped in a tomb of turmoil and dread Echoes of agony dripping with shame Lured to this place through lies and deceit Unspoken iniquity alters faith Can you hear the cries of the martyrs? In the after there is nothing Surrounded by distorted faces Can you hear the cries? Entangled in words of dissonant cast They failed to unravel the language of error Watching the righteous devouring faith Accepting affinity with the light Can you hear the cries of the martyrs? In the after there is nothing Surrounded by distorted faces Can you hear the cries of the martyrs? Thoughts censored sealed from first light Martyrs consumed by the flames Flesh bound to the end, bound to the end When fading memories die Nothing remains but the lies Death pierces the soul, pierces the soul Thoughts censored sealed from first light Martyrs consumed by the flames Flesh bound to the end, bound to the end Into the deepest unknown A presence concealed by deceit Truth rots in its tomb, rots in its tomb Can you hear the cries of the martyrs? In the after there is nothing Surrounded by distorted faces Can you hear the cries of the martyrs?

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Lacerate the doubters Of the legions of the light Implant your ideals Deep within their minds Oppress them from within Through the burden of regret Principles collapse They assume adherence to the cause Assured of prodigious regard Lost faces existing once more Not just names engraved in stone Or neglected remains Decomposing amidst the soil The hero cast as supreme In amongst the dark cervices of nothingness Left there to dwell upon their error In endless thoughts of blood Scathing winds of contempt Ensure the fall of reason Innocents to slaughter Marching for regard Betrayal of sane minds They are formless and dehumanized Assured of prodigious regard Lost faces existing once more Not just names engraved in stone Or neglected remains Decomposing amidst the soil The hero cast as supreme In amongst the dark cervices of nothingness Left there to dwell upon their error In the wake of death Disposed worthless flesh Exiled beneath the names Dismal realm of the dead Exiled beneath the names

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Ruins, empty and fading perpetually Towers of verity treated with derision Entombed in the ignored subconscious Screams smothered by lasting obedience Pleas for deliverance, dripping with hopelessness Entombed in the ignored subconscious Collapse the throne of the deceitful Ruins, empty and fading perpetually Towers of verity treated with derision Entombed in the ignored subconscious Absolve your thoughts of the falsehoods and Collapse the throne of the deceitful Years lost in distorted oblivion Waiting for illumination of our essence Entombed in the ignored subconscious Ruins, empty and fading perpetually Towers of verity treated with derision Entombed in the ignored subconscious Absolve your thoughts of the falsehoods and Collapse the throne of the deceitful martyr Cleanse your bleeding souls For we are not but flesh And through our fated fall We will become aware and unbound Purge the fear of death That drags us to despair Piercing through the lies We reclaim the throne Ruins, empty and fading perpetually Towers of verity treated with derision Entombed in the ignored subconscious Screams smothered by lasting obedience Pleas for deliverance, dripping with hopelessness Entombed in the ignored subconscious Absolve your thoughts of the falsehoods and Collapse the throne of the deceitful martyr

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025