All Flesh Is Grass

I am awake (I am awake) I’m awake From my slumber Frozen in the permafrost I’m a plague (I’m your mistake) A mistake Death dealer Bubonic reaper Dormant for some centuries Pest Vetr Plague Winter A silent reckoning prays on us It bides its time while we dismiss Stuck out of time Escaped from memory Your slow decline It draws closer to your time Glaciers moan A million corpses to my name So foolish to think You could run Away from your destiny From me Humanity’s egregiousness Siberian graves spark Eternal rest The very air we breathe Is thick with disease I feel we are too late Unfeeling, unseeing The reaper bears no hate All flesh, will return to the soil Before Hell’s gate

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

A perfect solution Forever and ever So beautiful So malleable I never want to lose you Perfect solutions don’t come cheap Poison lurks in the mouths you feed Toxic waves Even in death No remission The colours fade But the stain remains the same Four-hundred-and-fifty cursed years of degradation Our children’s children collapse in emancipation We should have heeded the warnings Microscopic ligatures dominate your future You are a slave A slave A slave An immortal enemy A fitting foe You've reached the end of the food chain You’ve got nowhere else to go Downfall of your own creation They’ll outlive us all Monuments to selfishness This is our downfall

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

Wasting time is a waste of life Defined by enemies Perfection unattainable Begging for more Settling for less Face to the cold earth Hooked on nostalgia What is left? Nothing What is left to say Caught in age Where everything’s the same Culture’s blurred Time passes by as you wait for your chance But I’m stuck here, a narcissist entranced I’m terrified of living I’m waiting here to die I can’t wait to lie with the worms What drives me, is futility What drives me, is banality I might as well make use of this farcical reality All flesh Returns to the soil

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

All flesh returns to the soil All marrow returns to the sea All journeys a split second in time All life a grain of sand at your feet Terror of existence is ablaze under my skin How do I fit it all in How do I break from the mentality I find myself in? Meaning is only what you apply to everything No grand plan need burden your path Don’t follow in their footsteps The tide will wash them all away Unburdened by a social timeframe Take and give only what you need Strip away the societal pressure With no destiny, leave your soul to feed All flesh returns to the soil All marrow returns to the sea All journeys a split second in time All life a grain of sand at your feet I found purpose In nothingness It keeps me safe From the jaws of the abyss Addicted to the Hopelessness Do you accept your fate In this hell Scrape yourself From the bottom of the barrel Disregard those who don’t understand Break from the cycle Of the generations You are yours alone Forget their faces cos you’re never coming home Broken bodies Filled the void With walls And chances missed You’re never coming home All Flesh Is Grass All flesh Returns to the soil

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

As I considered the words in front of me I slowly began to make my way out of the hole I had found myself in Death’s inevitability still came as a comfort But life didn’t feel so hopeless I no longer felt like I needed to follow any particular path The world around me felt just the same And I wasn’t yet at peace with that The only motivation I felt anymore was to fight what I saw in front of me I saw those at the bottom of the ladder And I saw those at the top The rungs in the middle were missing And I could see that its integrity was failing I saw an oncoming storm

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Dissociate yourself It’s not your fault Exhausted, huddled masses Are driven to the ground Stressed, their minds are static Beneath the moon they’ll make no sound A life less ordinary A life worth more, worth sharing A lifeless husk No empathy, no lust Another light goes out Your body shows your mind’s own truth Beneath your feet the demons grew Fingernails claw at some dignity But it’s pulled away at last It’s pulled away at last They blamed the people On their knees For the children drowned upon the beach Unwelcome lands, the last thing that they saw Disbelief I can’t help but question why We let it get this bad Pawns beneath an unseen hand Slowly murdered Worn down to dust within our homes Undiscovered There’s no way out No way to go Lights out Night’s shroud A shadow falls Across the world Hope is crushed beneath the tracks Nothing you can do - relax It’s not your fault Die slow

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Cold earth As I gather my thoughts I’m met with spectres of a time gone by Tendrils grow from blasted windows A sight for my weary, bloodshot eyes Spoiled for choice for reasons why No human scourge the planet thrives I take a closer look inside No sign of struggle A bloodless war fought in our minds Information overload A fractured state We ignored the silence From the birdcage We all wanted a simpler existence Greed of the elders made for slaves of the infants Time passed by The flames grew high You had everything you needed Everything that you could ever want You lost your way You lost your way It’s over The prophecy is fulfilled Let us bath once more In the crimson dark Around us and within us Give yourself over to the earth You are whole once more

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025