Dark Future

Drowning in a sea of static Forbearance wearing thin Night was already long long before this The consistent patterns begin to blend once again Ever-expanding and full of regret All of my solace lies In skin I've shed and left behind I've been losing sleep Searching for meaning in anything I had thought I'd learned to separate myself from this surrealistic void But now I see it's engulfing me And I've no rope to grab ahold Something so frail and fragile Was certain to never float at all Inevitably in this static sea We all dissolve Shifting along with the flow Existing simply to say so I've been losing sleep Searching for meaning in anything All of my solace lies In skin I've shed and left behind I've been losing sleep Searching for meaning Sweating swirling my descent I bend and contort Incredible black hole Torn into the fabric of the Earth Distorting not only thought Compromising vision Great delusional mind In control of everlasting time And as the light from the sun washes over me I will never find relief I've held the world in my hands I couldn't keep it on my own I've held the world in my hands I couldn't keep it all alone

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

My body becomes one with comfort One with pain Acceptance is now my guiding light I, I no longer find truth within subconscious These thoughts have only led me to a lack of control It's so obvious the voices guiding us The void guiding us they don't consider us at all Black static, be mine Let new life form intertwine See infinity come to life Vulnerable complex machine A mind in full decline Let the sound of static embrace me What does it mean to be alive? All my solace lies In skin I've shed and left behind I've been losing sleep Searching for the light

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

Face first into the new day The lights are shining more Than they have ever gleamed before Sweating swirling anxious as ever The time it melts away My nails grinding against floorboards Pleading with it just to stay My inactions become what define me I feel the pressure wearing me thin Impatiently I'll await the day When these tidal waves settle again I wish that I had more time And could be everywhere at once My apologies for the distance I've placed many miles between us But the only thing I've come to find comfort in Is the progression Of this restless souls Onward to a further destination And yes the future Though it's dark from this perspective When nothing ever will stay the same And every dormant dream that I have imagined Is brought to life but never as I planned I want to drown in the daylight's radiance Let the morning sun into my skin And feel the calm again If only from the bright beginning We were conditioned for the end We've grown so self-absorbed As if this life is ours eternally We've grown so accustomed to settling down And day to day But this city moves forward with or without me And everyone I love they're fading away Though it seems as if I'm sure As if I've weighed out everything I've decisions that are haunting me And I cannot evade All I've ever known is blackness Now even blackness fades If I am the creator what is this void that I've shaped? We always say, "I will be seeing you again." But what if that day never comes? Then, I'll be seeing you in the bitter end But what if this life is all we're ever meant to become? I always seem to let my thoughts destroy me from the inside out It's just a matter of time

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

I'm now drawing into question Everything I've ever known The answer is not in my heart nor in my hands It may never be I've looked to the sky I've grasped for the sun I've witnessed a tectonic shift And I have seen the static hit And even through the darkest of nights Morning never fails to come I am living I am breathing Perhaps what's meant to be sought stands before us And not beyond While there may never be meaning So different from what I envisioned Witnessing every neuron collapse Yet I paid no mind It made no difference Learning to live on and let go Reminiscing over what could have been But it will never be And with black clouds above me I catch my breath It all falls into place Like we were made for this Patiently I gather words that I had forgot to say In another passing wave If this life is temporary let come what may come Perhaps what's meant to be sought Stands before us And not beyond Beyond My will versus that of a force that I will never know? Perhaps it's the way in which I observed and felt that I must grow To push forward This room with no door is filling us Filling us both with dread It's almost as if time is choosing to exist Only within our heads And with black clouds above me I catch my breath It all falls into place Like we were made for this Patiently I gather words that I had forgot to say In another passing wave

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

A glimpse of clarity in the haze Of my mind turning in and out Around on itself Kaleidoscopic visions consume me So let the night be still I want to feel the arms of the Earth surround me And if it will prevent me from falling I would gladly start over again Mirror illusions of my fantasies Those which once only awoke in daydreams Take breath and thrive within my flesh All inhibition disappears with the sunset Drifting somewhere between waking and dreaming The weight of every fear is exposed Though I've hid them deep beneath my bones Tightening coil of anxiety Lingering inconsistencies brought to light Those which can only be found when we go searching Just like night into day Day into night I feel the shift

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

Waves of warmth crash around me just like the womb And I feel the pulse of each moment passing More than I've ever known I grasped with everything I had like I wanted this More than the air that'd left my lungs as the cold had hit Each lucid moment as if it were my own Each nerve and ending to bathe in the afterglow In a dream I heard your voice as clear as the day And as I close my eyes life is born again Illusion's colors wash away Like autumn's gold to winter's grey I saw your face as the weather shifted Fading in and out of suspended animation I arrived at the place where no light shined at all And I'm reminded nothing is real here In this parallel I lie under spinning stars Beneath the weight of these abstractions Exhausted more in each lingering second Lost in cyclical patterns These repetitious scenes induce unrealistic expectations of a Night more vicious than the dawn More vicious than waking life Within this trance you're with me But this vision won't last forever And I'll wake once again As sunlight breaches the morning haze To retrace my steps Through a darkness so luminous Lit by only your passing flame Eyes open Is it the future that you fear or is it who you've become nothing? The weight of this reality is no longer yours to bear So move forward nothing is real here

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

Without us the Earth will abide and endure. Without her, however, we could not even be

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025