Upon Desolate Sands

I am the author of death Behold, for thy vision is in our midst In the shadows of the purest transcendence Time is a river ever flowing For death is the everlasting cycle of life Shall I embellish the seas of change Must I embrace this departing life For all mankind shall fall before us The wicked that shall engulf the earth I am the composer of pain Centuries of accumulative drought I am the composer of pain Aeons of assimilation destroyed I am the composer of pain The storm that no one shall escape I am the composer of pain Initiate the command to destroy Behold, as he permeates through the land For it is he and only he who can absolve us Savior of salvation Or demigod of malice Transcending the knowledge of days once born Beneath the lies of rhetoric Scolding rainfall Shall wash us away off the face of this scorched earth For in the beginning there was naught Creator of the damned, exiled into solitude I succumb to your infinite power I embrace your curse of humanity's fall I succumb to your infinite power

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

Out of the dark landscape Is the fall of this ancient land The scale and enormity of this disaster Nothing at all remains Decimated by the will of our gods Leaving all in ruin Out of the heavens came the furnace of flames With ignited infernos Fires spread across the lands Absolving ancient cities in its path Leaving devastation in its wake Flash floods creating liquified ground Under the veil of deceit and disdain A catastrophe of devastating power Ruins of a lost civilization What lies beneath the waves of despair The collapse of glorious land and its downfall As the world crumbled beneath their feet Unveiled wonders of a time now passed Searing ash and burning flesh The avalanche of doom In the marsh lies remains of the past Terrifying sight of death The favor of the gods The haunting ruins is what lies beneath Sheer savagery and brutal viciousness It shattered the foundations of society Within the demise of a land once thriving Absolve me Under the blazing sun lies a world of phenom The fabled palace upon the mountains Stranded in puritanical sand The empire of the lost temples

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

With vengeance I must striketh down Thy enemies of our kingdom Fled and sheltered by the flock of angels downtrodden Cast out by the sacred Bound and shackled till extinction Now withered away into darkness Erased from the annals of history Have you no mercy In the stillness of black I shall destroy the world Of purpose and desire from spite I have spoken, I have arisen Salvation lies ahead Or shall we wither away into darkness Devastating in thy authoritative approach I shall activate an emerging threat of doom Culminating into a storm of beckoning cries Disintegration of all that once was We must dismantle this society of lies Society of lies Following ones path into the light Punished from the wrongs of our kind Annihilation of this sacred land The task that now must be complete Detestable, deplorable, yet fleeting in all its glory There shall not be any noble deaths For the world as we know it is now absolved Iniquitous, malevolent, born evil from thy inception Conjuring this catastrophic drought Seizing earth's precipitating fall You shall become descendants of my own image I shall reign over the wonder of awe I shall impose scarcity over man As your penance is the downfall of all

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

Life so sacred yet here I stand Cursed with sorrow and a penchant for death May I enter the void of loss In the presence of those whom have perished As I enter the chasm of emptiness The mythos tells no lies Mournful spirits fill the air Lingering amongst the dead In the labyrinth of terrifying fear The winds sweep across the trees Pulling me into their lair Filled with troubled thoughts of death The forest of broken dreams and shattered lives Upon the sea of trees Lies the depth of all our sorrows Nothingness of being I am only a shadow of what was I Nothing, nothing but a shell left as I Shunned by the light of the sun In the realm of hazy dense despair What sadness lies before me Awaiting the ghosts of those left to die As I enter this majestic sprawl Banished, never to return again Vengeful thoughts and woeful wounds An absolute end In the maze lost upon volcanic rock Where the veils are transparent Vestiges of a culture unknown The universe within us all The forest of broken dreams and shattered lives Upon the sea of trees Lies the depth of all our sorrows Nothingness of being I am only a shadow of what was I Nothing, nothing but a shell left as I Wounds that no one can heal Pain that never subsides Scars... scars that never shall fade Shall the spirit of the winds engulf me May the ghosts of the past resolve May I leave this world behind In the shadows of yurei absolve Nothing, nothing but a shell left as I Nothing, nothing but a shell left as I

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 25, 2025

I see the everlasting face of death and our demise Shadows of the promised land, spare us our own reprise The scorched they prevail Haunted evil The tortured prevail Wicked evil I see your embers fall as you hide in pure disgrace I watch your spirit fall as you fade into oblivion O' woeful angst of pure despair May war and destruction prevail I hear your endless cries as you Writhe in sheer distress I feel your soul now slip away into the endless dark I sense the numbing void as it Permeates the land Now through me I am the vessel of the overcome I stand The scorched they prevail Haunted evil The tortured prevail Wicked evil I see your embers fall as you hide in pure disgrace I watch your spirit fall as you fade into oblivion Cower no longer for your time has come For the mantra of lies are now upon us O' woeful angst of pure despair May war and destruction prevail We have all demolished our idols All of humanity fails All has fallen of what we cherish Obliterated by catastrophic epic proportions All of what we have known now destroyed Hopelessness has now set in As the actualization of our fate arrives May we find the tranquil end From this endless scourge

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Oracle of the dead Channeling energy through the tapestries of history The power of the gods Through the annals of thy lost text Absolved of all left rendered In the labyrinth upon the river styx The boatman now directs your course To the sorcery of the blessed Spirits of the dead I bestow upon you this offering of blood As I commune with the dead In the realm of the ones whom have perished Transcendence as a conduit to the gods I prey to meet my end Outerworldly existence I must find I prey to meet my end I must pay homage to our ancestors Who reside in the netherworld My life defined by death I shall not run from the darkness Hence I shall embrace what lies beneath The descent into the chamber of dark Portal of the shaman Sorceror of the possessed We are the madness that lurks within Fear is the beast that swallows mankind Fear has many faces Messenger of fire, weaponizing fear Deities scribed into the annals of death Seeer of what lies beyond Medium to the spirits now gone Upon the chambers of what now eternal lie In the netherworld of the beyond In our darkest realm, the lair of descent The heat burneth beneath my feet Shaman, speak thy name In the portal of myriad Prophetic in absolution In the grotto beyond the lake of sorrow The sibyl now grants thy command As I descend unto the caverns of baia

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Total collapse into a sudden end Of unimaginable horror into the dark unknown The old kingdom of prosperity no longer Now degraded into complete unrest Horrendous depredation Haunting echoes of tragedies that befell the kingdom Under charred embers of what remained Under charred embers of what remained The sandstorms smothered all the lands Starvation followed, as resources diminished Agony over fear of whom survives The end of the kingdom that once was... Horrendous depredation Haunting echoes of tragedies that befell the kingdom Under charred embers of what remained Under charred embers of what remained Devastating wide spread famine and misery Was the end of all they knew The scale of unbearable suffering The dark age of ruin The floods subsided into survi̇val Yet the floods had caused the end Once resiliant as it vanished into ash From achievement into total chaos Through atrocities with suffering of despair Eating of the young commenced Blasphemies committed in order to survive Not of rhetoric, hieroglyphics tell no lies Streaks of black ash line the ground As the lands turned into churning dust Revealing the truth of once was The lake of truths has now vanished The lake of truths has vanished

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

Consume me, o' vastness of what lies before me May I be reborn in your own very image Revel in the sights of your very essence Upon this journey I must embark upon Enamored by your purist beauty Entranced with your absolute authority Why must this land of gold depart me Why must you swallow me whole On this continual path... Waters rushed the sands with rapid force Thrusting one's power unto thee It drifted upon our glorious shores Gouging the stones from the earth Removing all life to considerable depths Amongst the windswept dunes of mass deposits Upon the shifting tides of sweltering heat Depletion of your granular sands Destruction of your identity As I meander across this desolate floor I traverse upon the surface of decay On a distant shore I now no longer fear I prey for the definitive end Hear my cries, as they shatter the universe Feel my longing, as I ponder on days of old A life once known to me aeons ago... Decreasing mass surrounds me Floods overcome our grounds Creeping upon the floor of the tide Marked the sign of the curse Ever so weakening, powerful, indestructible Scraping the filth off the earth Dominating, devastating now rendered unusable Why must this land of gold depart me Why must you swallow me whole On this continual path upon desolate sands

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

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