Love Poems for Dying Children, Act II: The Garden of Crystalline Dreams

[Child:] Do the children ever sing? [The Beautiful:] Alas, they do not sing but songs of woe and remembrance. [Child:] Do the children ever dance? [The Beautiful:] Alas, they can dance no more. [Child:] Do the children ever laugh? [The Beautiful:] Alas, their laughter can be heard no longer. [Child:] Do the children ever play? [The Beautiful:] Alas, their days of playing have long since ended. [Child:] Do the children ever sleep? [The Beautiful:] Alas, the children cannot sleep. They can only dream. [Child:] Do the children ever cry? [The Beautiful:] Alas, I do regret, they forever cry tears of sadness. [Child:] Do the children ever love? [The Beautiful:] Alas, they can love no more. [Child:] Do you love the children? [The Beautiful:] I love all of my children, yet I fear they cannot love me. [Child:] Do you love me? [The Beautiful:] I shall love thee forever, my dearest one. Sleep now, as we enter this endless memory together, and see thy death awakened... all in a moment...

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Nov 13, 2025

Hear me... O valiant sister, reveal to me, this archaic image Awakened, I find no passage within these arcane illusions Hath I but found my eternity manifested within me This mask of shattered divinity do I now wear Endless black skies surround my freedom The ravens cry out for my undoing, how beautiful their songs are to me Hopelessly, I envision fragile winds sweeping away my spirit Leaving behind my barren epitaph, taking me to my eternity... my garden Vanquished foes, fear not my destiny Take this empty shell which is my body And free my dying brood from endless millennia One child, one god, one wish, one dream, one heart, one life, one final victory O hear me... I'm in pain

Submitted by Warbringer — Nov 13, 2025

Lips of glass ... Their touch so deep Cold, enchanting bliss The dying dreams, I take unto my love Her embrace to carry me beyond death... I wish... A deepening woe, a shadow of life Hindering my dying dreams But just one kiss, I beg of thee my love To dry my ever flowing stream of tears ... I wish... Unfortunate is the one who suffers For there is no comfort in death Only one single hope... My love given and not taken without burden May we love one another freely Without fear of abandonment Watch me as I die painlessly A thousand times The sweet, sweet agony of my being Ever am I alone Sadness... a kiss passionate sorrow Of a time to come of divine unity O my love, take us to our ebony meadow Together we stand Amidst the moonlit for and snow I wish... Beloved darkness, to you I plead Give but a wakeful moment Of tragic lust A kingdom of carnal pleasure A garden of crystalline dreams

Submitted by BloodShrine — Nov 13, 2025

Wings of sorrow Lift me from sleep My eternal spirit Uneasy in its wake My mind like that of a child Locked within The tainted walls of grief I scream To free my soul a tribute to my pain And hatred My imbalance, my lust for both worlds They are two, yet they are one Find me And guide me Lift me from this shadow Of death

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Nov 13, 2025

My forbidden desire Shone deeply within mine eyes Archaic visions awakened Hidden beneath forgotten memories Seemingly endless phantoms Parading Devilish apparitions Dance amidst the folly Of my sleeping drama I hear their cries Bathing in moonlight This lascivious breed I scorn My raven skies embellished With traces of bloodless depravity I speak of celestial adoration Divine lamentation And tears of infinite mourning... My utopia do I cover And hate being my truest form of love My nemesis unmasked My own face do I see Torn in silence I hath seen the majestic beauty Of darkened landscapes and ivory gates O what fools can they not see I am lost Endless battles they fight for my soul No pity, no comfort do I now ask Let me suffer alone in my own misery My children shall never abandon me Poor souls can they not see they are mine A dying rose do I now give to each of them An eternity of my love and death Ornamental disgrace as they envision Their dying savior before me As his children to forever become mine Ashen mortality A faceless entity within them How is it that I feel Their saddened wishes? Time passes... dreams die... And I silently kiss away their lives

Submitted by Immortal — Nov 13, 2025

(Wisdom: ) I deny thee entrance in my beautiful garden For it is not thee who hath corrupted mankind, than who? Thou shalt spend the eternity in contemplation... of thy sins (The Beautiful: ) O please, sorrow and remorse, I beg of thee Have pity, I do repent, show thy mercy upon me Grant me passage beyond my hateful life (Wisdom: ) Foolish one, I cannot allow thy soul to remain free I do pity thee, yet you are beyond my grasp You belong to the other, I cannot sever that which binds thee To enter my kingdom, thou must first cleanse thy soul Hath I never sailed upon infinite shores of sin The inner glory suppressed only by the shadow of fear To find oneself buried so deeply in uncertainty The delicate threads of hope tirelessly fray... (The Beautiful: ) Am I to suffer my eternity tormented by phantoms of being? Is there no hope for one dying, pleading soul? Of so, then I shall not suffer alone (Benevolence: ) Thou must find thy soul and release thy hatred Within thyself may thou find the dreams to change thy fate Only then may these ivory gates open for thee (Deceit: ) Listen not to the lies of those whom hath condemned thee Art thou to trust whom hath taken that which was thine Seek not love, but hatred and vengeance Then only my thee find ease for the severed heart

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

(Deceit: ) Now must choose O' wretched soul, for thyself, thou must choose Choose to take or be taken, to be tortured by thy Sorrow by giving into thy reluctance and pity Go then, if thou must, to die a miserable wretch within Thy blackened kingdom (Benevolence: ) Listen not to the lies of false humanity Only through purification of thy spirit may rest be found Anger shall not soothe thy ever aching heart The only promises kept are ones made from thyself (Wisdom: ) Take now this finality of injustice... I shall offer thee no mercy To rid thyself of false identity thou must free this soul dammed by thee Thy child to be released by life taken from thee And this soul of one so full of everlasting youth shall be returned unto me Dare to awaken my vengeance with thy defiance To this your death in life I shall forever condemn thee Heed this last warning, my pitiful soul For when I vanquish thy breed... they shall all become mine (Child: ) Take not my life, o beautiful earthen mother For now I shall retain my youth granted from thee forever As I was taken I now take and wish to remain in thy shadow Take not my life, for together we shall unveil this fragile earth (Deceit: ) Heed the words spoken, seek no longer an answer If it be not enough, then for thy pride only bow to none Let those who would take thy only possession from thee Be cast in amber flames and eternal darkness (The Beautiful: ) My mind, a tangled mass of utter confusion The conquest for my soul, a struggle tearing me apart If I must act to rid myself of the scourge within me Then by and by my soul be damned, so it shall be done (Benevolence: ) If thou dost truly love thy child and whish to cleanse thy soul of sin Thy immortal life extinguished and all thy children to find rebirth Thy flesh must remain within the earth while thy soul shall await judgement (Deceit: ) Be not a fool, for thy slumber may wait and remain indifferent Thy mask shall fall and then turn to dust Shouldst thou renounce thyself and venture into the realm of light Thy chains shall remain forever

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

Crosses of silk, soil of stone and streams of blood Winds sing sorrowful melodies of a youthful earth The trees hang their heads in baneful prayer We listen in wonder to the tales of the moon (The Beautiful: ) May I watch the stillness pass me by May I forever choose to embrace the light, imprison by laughter My waking wisdom serves me less to my conscience Remove my spirit from the wind, I shall remain forever O' chivalrous, O' heavenly garden Choose me for but one more task

Submitted by Morgoth — Feb 11, 2026

A rose for the dead ones... Sometimes they want to die Sometimes they want to live When they live they come to me When they die they are silent No tender mercy shall I give as they plead for us Without remorse I shall take their lives Silently in chaotic passion From their impending, mindless presence Reaping the emptiness within My blackened eyed the last horror they shall see Damned am I... no For there is no damnation my soul hath not taken Shall I be swayed in my vengeance As time tears open my wounds? I think not!

Submitted by Finntroll — Nov 13, 2025

[Deceit: ] What a precious mistake thou has made A fool you hath made of me ...so be it I take thee now with Vengeance and fury My wrath shall I beset Upon the souls of innocence See me now As I spread my darkening wings Pity them as they Speak my name in vain My divine pleasure taken In watching them die Thus, ever they shall suffer as I do Ornate wisdom Revealed in mine eyes I shall sip the wine Of tumultuous life My kiss and a promise I shall give thee now Never shall I weep As they cry out my name A hymn to my wandering light Blackening sun, emptiness Taste victory unquenched Throughout my millennia Embodied by this distortion Of my withering stare Fools, have thy moment of glory As my blanket of death unfolds Upon thy children Watch my glorious triumph in hatred Regret thy error as I take them: One by one [Wisdom: ] A mask I wear of infinite gestures A vale of dusk beyond my jaded horizon Death for thee hath many faces Life hath but only one [Deceit: ] Prepare thyself for my victorious era As showers of blood spill forth upon thee From the ebony gates Of my black heaven

Submitted by Nargaroth — Nov 13, 2025