Ressentiment

This crowd: a fleshy lake. The throngs as smallish waves, folds like skin upon the sow A faint din as spit and speech caw- the rank broth that stews while boiled alive “Who are you to cast your net so wide, and deepen the maw? Cannibal, your hooks blood deep in hide This too shall pass. You’ll find yourself at last.” Couldn’t anyone else have tried to carve their hold? The mark of hands. Couldn’t anyone else have climbed the bones of old? The bridge of man, its steps cobbled stones from sand One way mirror, cracked and leering, watch us crawl A coarse ascension, a vulgar dream dragged kicking back to the floods A crass intrusion: the eyesore tower was crashed by swarms… A herd of cackles, a school of flesh that scorns the touch “The only face that scorns this fate is ours: self same, ripe to faint Once down, the stench, the taint. So raise the eyesore tower We’ll raze the rows we felled When stayed the hand of storms, down poured the fruit of arms.”

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

I’d promised I'd promised I'd promised I'd promised (to go) I'd promised (to go) I'd promised- To go But now that it’s time The scene of what I’d missed Is haunting me through tattered blinds “Lift your eyes from above Let your life flow out.” Born of resistance Plagued by irreverence The burden of- a slow memory’s remnants Awaken in moments And search for the relevance The instance fades- and leaves me no change It wouldn’t seem like such a blow If only minds could be re- Newed as well as bone A burst of color and dismay Rends a draped malaise If only years could all be- Hewn as well as stone A burst of color and dismay- Rends a draped malaise which Maligned as it may- Still offers up a sanctum’s peace Cloven A cloven hoof Crawls for the hobbled Forked The forked tongue Croaks the call of the dumb What passes over When heads are steeped Neck deep in the drolls cast off by the shrugging arms The wading mass The sludge so thick all limbs are lamed Yet we waddle all the same Cast off all my weight So cast your light away They'll shine your light out Your light out Cast off all my weight Lift your eyes from above Let your life flow out A cloven A cloven hoof Crawls For the hobbled The Forked The forked tongue Croaks The call of the dumb This bleeding erupted from the sores of wasted gods The tension was broken by bloodied fists and open arms The meaning destructed in solitude and fits of calm Residing in daydreams, you’ll only feel it once it’s gone (One day, and one chance to fail one day) You’ll never screw this again So take it all the way and dig through your grave

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

As it all falls down, and everything burns, the meek have their day It seems you’ve found your way down Slip into this void. This longing brought suffering We speak in bitter tongues A stone is the crux of a wall. Its burden lies in weight Lowly, we bask in omens, and dream of what reality was Beholden to a paradise broken, dream of what reality was Slowly, we bend so slowly As we descend the walls that seem so sloped call forth my way We bend so slowly. I won’t stay or carve my name You were tied to the weight of this failure We sink in through reverie In quiet moments I prayed for this day In weaker moments I rued this day In desperation I gave way What would I do to be rid of this? Head down, back to wind, what would I do? Forget this weight This day was yours to take, heads down Backs to the wind, beating back the deluge endlessly We need something to hold as the light fades away

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

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This horizon ties your hands Pray for mercy as you sink below Through the thunder, until the rain falls, we’re alone Look at the way she stares You want to make her suffer Bury your face in sand Keep it smothered Hurry, avert your eyes and hold them still Dig deep your lines Stop your breathing No words, only sound Slow steps Heed no one No heat, only shrouds The elders sway The cowards fall They couldn’t find a way No hope or fear of floating No one for you to know They couldn’t find a way Through the thunder, until the rain falls, we’re alone Through the sandstorm, until the soil floods we’re as bone I’m an island I built my wall’s stone too tall Wait upon your shore Maybe there sails an escape for you So you race to the end, and then you hurtle towards another one So you pray for the wind Then you race to the end I’m through counting

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

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A mirthsome gold; these lives you hold, you’ll hide away The lidless casket, the guilded lining Shines in the old light, gleams in the muted bay These lines have been etched in bone, carved and faded, stretched as taut as stone. Draped across the moonlit base, a mirrorbed reflects the faces bright in the moment Wide and awake with fright Seared by the scorchlight, lives are worth we’ll trade We couldn’t cower too quickly. We couldn’t bear to brave the gaze of the end And when the creep of flames engulf the all, you’ll swallow them whole You’ll intake this bile, and you’ll reap what I’ve soiled, what you’ve sown So have the stilted grown Bury me in all the filth and shame, and all the moments filled with them It’s all the same. I’ll give it away I’ll taint my flesh and you’ve naught but hell to taste Tear it away. The rot is palpable. The waft escapes The bread we broke sustaining you. The blood, you choked, the draining flu No sign that anyone knew. Gods you hunger, so tear us wide and eat your fill You look so tired. I couldn’t save for you some raw meat Your limbs are wires, but all I have for you is thawed You’ll get your means. You’ve earned these seeds Now when you salivate you’ll bleed Drawn to the stench of plebes who dulled their sheen to match a hope we couldn’t feel This is all we are: a listless gold, the lifeless old, frail in the moment Scared as the eyes reveal their sheen. Be careful what you hold The flesh has turned, your wretch was earned Bright in the moment, wide and awake with fright Seared by the scorchlight, our lives are worth we trade

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

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The distant mock of warmth: an aftertaste of the bodies’ greeting collision You’ll never feel that again I thought I saw a rising tide dissolving the streets, and leaving blank shores I strained to hear the distant waves encroaching, eroding wood and home I can’t recall the sound of footsteps, the scent of skin It washed away with the taste of ashes. I grind my teeth but it’s gone As we walk, we’ll pass through the last of night, sick with dust and smiles The mock of warmth: you’ll never feel that again

Submitted by The Void — Feb 25, 2026

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Built on high, the scaffold’s walls are hinged to the fold The step slopes downward for none. Their aims ran steep So where, then, must you have tryst? A crane of the neck- your crooked eyes rose to rest where the loft hung The weight you’ve sweat here will not lighten your load It gnaws on fragments of your tired soul. Your line: an arc for progress Your sky: a roof. Your gate is closed. The way for you is plowed The cart you pull is culled from your bones In darkness ashes coat your lungs. In silence there is only defeat Wisdom to you now is but a burden The breeze that broke you came from your throat No ire can keep burning. No wrath is wrought by the lowly A slow step and you’ve only to wait until, claws bent Mind fogging, the next wind will topple you wholly Cold mire, deep sopping… climb up and pull your load The waves all broke, and sovereigns tend the falls The tide broke, a cloven splash, and sovereigns tend the falls As if rising again and again to be chopped at the knees was a gift The impetus will fade with dusk You sorrel nag, your coat is blood and rust

Submitted by BloodShrine — Feb 25, 2026