Hemmed by Light, Shaped by Darkness

Rootless I wander against my balance point Silence unwraps the weight of being And there I lie Untouched by emotions of sort I fight back my own human smell Inhaling rain and dirt I find shelter under beds of leaves I fail to hide my claws again Spitting on what I’m called to be I scratch my skin deep down looking for feathers What I am is what I’m now Acceptance is that road I walk away from I lead with pride my own disasters Denying I learn I’ll look at birds’ eye to get the answers I need Light pulses through my nails I draw my new self with it A spinning top in constant motion While my face Like a watchtower remains still My sight keeps aiming at the horizon As far as it can get Unfit to find any rest I wish to transfigure in rocks on sediment Motionless desires obstruct my run I can’t find a way to hide from these walls Urban decay is black oil dripping on my wings I cry diamonds of salt I feed myself with them Every drop cuts my throat deep to the spine Till my voice shrinks to a bloody wisper Lost among the lost I keep moving While my feet can’t find any grip on the ground I refuse the colours I see I’ll feed crows with my eyeballs And keep just darkness for me I keep just darkness for me What I am is what I am not What I am not is what I’m cursed to be

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

I dig the soil with my bare hands I open circular wounds Craters of worms and broken nails I dig off those marble columns Extensions of my roots Will fit in there I look them deep down Till I feel them pulsing within From each crack that opens up Warm dark blood rivers out I get my chest soaked in Summoning rebirth I chain myself to this primordial mud My fingers like tentacles Spread to the light above Eyes are sealed In beloved silence my mind wonders Dragging lies and slimy shadows with each step When the core is reached The bleeding stops I now stand still like a centenary tree Burnt inside Burning all that lies around And when daily demons finally shrink in A vortex of gold leaves erupts in return I inhale dozens of them Choking from this grace I puke black bile Drawing mandalas in the thick air My eyes take fire Neck cracks back Forcing my face to the clouds It rains My orbits are now steaming holes Getting slowly filled with peace Layers and layers of shining waves Find their way to my heart Ice meeting fire lights up the mind Till blackness is put at ease And when distortion fades Flames get rest Tracing the path of blood I align a step after another And I’ll keep the rhythm till the source is reached My inside is out Floating The outside is in Digging Tuned with soil and clouds I’m one with myself again

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Lying in conscious abandon I challenge the barrier of sleep While my breaths dance with the moon My body gets rigid Immobile Dead at touch Between these two layers of being My mind stands awake And escapes the flesh My eyes tremble While the third one Fools all senses and leads I see through now And the outside walk begins Being weightless terrifies Floating around these walls I’m forced to trust new perceptions Just a gold spiderweb Attaches me to the life I know My mortal self Lying pale Seems futile from above Obstacles are no more I pass through the doors of my knowledge Memories transfigure in landscapes Voices are long stripes of sound Movements get traced in the air Time moves slow Scanned by a distant heartbeat I sense the fear of not returning back And I keep ignoring it A room appears An old man blurs out from the walls I aim in his direction When the floor opens up Gravity claims its power back A black void eats me down In free fall I hear life calling my name Fighting my return I keep climbing up Shouting back all my strength Movements stab my confidence Everything I touch turns my spirit down Between two tearing forces my will raises his chin And blind from fear I aim to the old man towering above Tears flow through my disfigured self I fight against my conscience’s weight Slow like mountain corrosion With the last of my breath I get to his face When eyes meet eyes My forehead implodes like crystal While my mouth erupts rocks and soil Drained out I abandon myself in this limbo I now float again Life holds me close Eating up my strained will Like a bird in a storm I open my wings and let go Defeated by my same power I wake up in myself Lying in unconscious disorder I’ll stand again

Layers and layers of life upon death Through matter and lost thoughts Old ruins and carcasses Piled up like snow in a blizzard Like that river you don’t hear Buried under thousand of moons I flow through the limbo among debris Digging into the pulsing unknown Where fire forges soil And soil heads the circle of being I drag those marks of time I leave signs to be found I leave questions and doubts Till truths get covered once again To let the cycle restart from nothing I travel through earth’s arteries and veins I aim the light I will not see I’ll steal the sun from my own memories Forced under cons of weight I find balance in the unbalance Like those roots by stones surrounded I feel on my skin the power to shake all things I stare at Orb’s bleeding heart It calls for war The silence before destruction is louder than thunders Time flexes its arms and grabs my neck Seconds turn into smaller and smaller prison cells I’m cornered into a gasp for air When the charge breaks its chains I let it runs its way through me Pulsing at the rhythm of disaster I hold death’s blessings in my hands And push this fear down my throat Healing waves spread within this soil Absolution spreads within this soil Forgiveness spreads within this soil Let me be forgotten within this soil.

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

As the wind loses his strength after a storm I undress my will I let the breath of life blow on me I feel safe in the unknown My aura spreads wide outward Reaching those gates I can’t bring myself to walk to I tie my hair to a dead tree With each knot I exhale discord With each knot I inhale transparency Until I’m left at peace Staring at my reflection on the clouds running above Thoughts filter through me I purge out any trace of them Claiming my own being I refuse to blend in And I accept to exist I just exist Like a dead leaf on water I let currents decide directions Like mold on a stone I’ll live through anything that comes my way The pulse behind any move Is the electric fire life commands I challenge my lungs to overcome the smoke I’m still and centered like a stone But my body keeps bursting into flames And just when I will be ashes It means I have fought back enough I bring my heartbeat down to silence I envision a white square And its sides fading to nothing I enter the realm of blankness And feel my bones turning into dust Air draws through me Charcoal fumes take my place Being nothing I’m all I need to be Being nothing I’m all I’ve chosen to be

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

I draw a circle on my chest I raise my fists to the sun And one at a time I hammer them down Like a mute drum My body resonates feeble While my heart keeps pumping pain all around Skin turns into fire Fire turns into night Blood stains take the shape of a scorpio I hit it whispering a child tune I used to sing With bloody knuckles I disfigure my past With tearing eyes I learn to see inward Broken bones push out my skin Like a warped flower about to bloom I spit memories I inhale answers Broken bones push out my skin Like a warped flower about to bloom I spit memories I inhale answers A gold sphere escapes my stomach It spins and levitates Charged by my same frequency Slow like a planet about to die Rings of light surround my body Blue flames build me my armour Static noises scream like thunders While my mass expands In symbiotic exchange with the flowing energy My chakras bleed out earth’s whispers and tears Like a fountain draining subterranean rivers I turn water into blood And I squeeze blood into air With the sphere now in my hands I raise my head to the sky Aiming at the moon I throw my darkness into darkness With all the strength my flesh holds in Black regenerates into a white rainbow hitting my cranium Salt rains on me My wounds dance like boiling water My heart loses the beat and collapses Eyes close up Silence spreads The path to light has been opened once again.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

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The crystal skull I wear protects that door right behind my eyes A passage to a better self I can walk through Carrying all the tears I can fill my hands with I crawl my way to that deep silence I fill with thoughts I crawl my way to that deep silence I fill with thoughts In there hundreds of brick towers hold a tender sky together A gold path rolls within electric bundles of feelings buzz around Amniotic fields lie on raw flesh hills Clouds of minor notes rumble There's a liquid spot in every mirror There's a point of distortion in every imaage There's a piercing truth in each lie Here I shut down my double self And I let my real voice resonate low deep, low deep, low deep, In a state of altered awareness And I let my real voice resonate low deep, low deep, low deep, My shelter is a shutdown theatre made of bones I sit on the border of a black stage Spiderwebs caress my breath Dust takes the shape of a ghostly crowd Entertained while I play my guts Like cello strings A whirl of bones generates from the ceiling above In twisting symbiosis with my mute dying chant The crystal skull I wear protects that door right behind my eyes A passage to a better self I can walk through Carrying all the tears I can fill my hands with The more I dismember the bigger the pearl cage gets But my aura overcomes it spreading wide like angel's wings An ovation celebrates my lethal performance While exhaling what is left of me I smile at the crowd and collapsing buildings Protected by my same death march I keep the music going And when life will call back I'll promise to escape it tomorrow again. And when life will call back I'll promise to escape it tomorrow again.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025