The Great Divide

The seeds are drawn & scattered Deep inside the hungry earth We are as miracles conceived Into the outstretched arms Of an earnest but unfinished world Into a life of ritual received He played upon the swing And wrestled on the soothing sands He dreamt upon the dew - soaked grass Watched the picture - screen With wide & unsuspecting eyes And spoke aloud before the class Perpetual child Read the fables in his hands Unconvinced he let them fall Perpetual child On the edge of knowing Perpetual child At the foot of the Wetsren Wall For a memory he was bound Slipped away without a sound Light a torch for one who tried & failed to cross The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide They were as one beneath the shelter of the ancient tree They carved their oath upon it's bark That is all that's left Of passion & naivete The twisting ache of unformed hearts Perpetual child His defenses in his hands Terrified to let them fall Perpetual child On the edge of knowing Perpetual child At the foot of the Western Wall The iron bonds of youth Became precarious in his hands He watched as his illusions fell away The passage was to steep for him His feet could find no hold He never learned to climb In the shadows of his room Like the stillness of the womb Vowed to reach beyond the prison of his history For a memory he was bound Slipped away without a sound Light a torch for one who trued & failed to cross The passage was too steep for him His feet could find no hold He never learned to climb Perpetual child Held the future in his hands Defiantly he let it fall Perpetual child On the edge of knowing Perpetual child At the foot of the Western Wall For a memory he was bound Slipped away without a sound To the wind consigned his freedom & identity We become as strangers all As we're battered by the squalls And retreat into the comfort of our secrecy To a memory he was bound For his ship has run aground Light a torch for one who tried & failed to cross The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Divide Lost inside The Great Dive Lost Inside The Great Divide

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

Curse the morning liight Stumbled through the night Have no will to fight You gotta wake me Swollen eyes Can't disguise No alibis to cover me Sky is red Ponding head By a thread As long as I'm awake you can never catch me Moon to sun My work is never done Just a puppet on the strings Of my unconscious master Do your dance,sleepwalker Skeletons crrep like stalkers Don't you know that you can never let them down ? Things are looking strange Must have rearranged Begging for a change Why won't you wake me ? My regrets May kill me yet My safety net is torn away Blood turns blue Who are you / This can't be true There's gotta be somewhere that you can't find me Moon to sun My work is never done Just a puppet on the strings Of my unconscious master Do your dance,sleepwalker Skeletons creep like stalkers Don't you know that you can never keep them down ? Moon to sun My work is never done Just a puppet on the strings Of my unconscious master Wide awake & dreaming Can't you hear me sceraming ? Smackin' my shins until the naked bone pokes through What does it take to reach you ? How do I make you see ? Driven underground Nerves so tightly wound I won't make a sound Somebody wake me A moment's peace Sweet release Nightmares cease racking me But when I afll I dread your call If dreams know all Come on - just whay are you trying to tell me? Moon to sun My work is never done Just a puppet on the strings Of my unconscious master Do your dance,sleepwalker Skeletons creep like stalkers Don't you know that you canever keep them down ? Moon to sun My work is never done Just a puppet on the strings Of my inconscious master Wide awake & dreaming Can't you hear me screaming ? Smackin' my skull until the jellied brains flow through

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

A glow in the forge of life Immortals grew blind Deceit seared his hand in the fire And diseased the marrow of time The devil is in the night sky His shadow consumes the light Weaving the weight of the world The anger The madness The horror It devours me A vision trapped in worldly guise The dragon in the dream A spirit meant to soar Cursing the chains of it's matter Needs of the body Life of the mind These must join Together A desert of wasted days An ocean of tears A darkness of demon - design In your bones the black hand of fear Masterful is the night sky When shadows conceal the light Fear is the weight of the world It's anger And madness And horror And it tires me Lightning flashes Deep in the night The battle of titans revealed A timeless vision promised me My dragon's but a dream But I can feel his breath Turning my wings into ashes Needs of the body Life of the heart Join When the world leads you away From the things that you know In your heart You'll only find what you believe When you let the reins go I woke to a wide sunrise And followed my path Though time slips away with the day In the dark I still know my way Here is the hope for the world The wisdom The patience The rapture Follow me through the night sky Your shadows reveal the light Sleeping giants Open their eyes The union of ages revealed Your vision makes the halves a whole You ride the dragon well Feel your spirit fly Shedding the skin of this matter Life of the body Needs of the soul One These I join...

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

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Feelin' jumbled Stuck - in between I'll never forget the day That you walked on my scene Through your doorway I beheld my wildest dream You lit me up like a flash of fire You stung my soul with a pang of need Because of you I knew I'd come of age And I'd never be the same And the moment I saw your face I knew that my long night was done There was honesty in your eyes As bright as the morning sun Cozy blankets Sleepless nights Sharin' smiles & tears & hopes by the silver light Because of you I dream of what might have been And I'll never be the same And the moment I saw your face I knew that my long night was done There was honesty in your eyes And it shone like the morning sun All the moments I heard your voice The hours like dreams fell away How I long for our endless spring Every day Why can't we go back again ? Because of you And the moment I touched your face I prayed that night would never end How it hurts that I don't know If I'll ever see you again Feelin' sorry A little low And I'm still wondering How I ever let you go But years are flyin' & I guess I'll never know You melted me like the summer sun You made me shake like the winter wind Because of you I knew I'd be alright And I've never been the same And the moment I saw your face I knew that my long night was done There was honesty in your eyes As warm as the morning sun There's a shrine within my heart While I keep what you gave to me Cause you taught me how to love And you showed me what I should be

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Pack away your wordy rhymes 'Cause it's all a waste of time You can't sell your precious art But there's a cure for bleeding hearts We've all gotta swim to the bottom The fun begins at the bottom The air gets thin at the bottom line It's deep - sea green at the bottom It gets pretty mean at the bottom It's a back - stabbin' scene at the bottom line Never mind your "noble" fight Or your whims of wrong & right You're getting weaker by the hour Because those ghost have lost their power They must kneel to the bottom That's what's real at the bottom Beg,borrow,steal at the bottom line But if you can score at the bottom You can hide from the roar of the bottom Of the class - color war at the bottom line Trade your childhood guise For a suit of grown - up sighs Just a hypocrite,you see You're no different than me It's the haves & have - nots at the bottom Take your best shot at the bottom The soup's gettin' hot at the bottom line But once you take a drink from the bottom Like a stone you'll sink to the bottom There'll be no time to think at the bottom line There's a shady lookin' guy at the bottom Don't look him in the eye at the bottom Hurry on by at the bottom line Let the buyer beware at the bottom It ain't all about fair at the bottom I'll see you there at the bottom line It's the haves & have - nots Take your best shot at the bottom I'll save you a spot at the bottom line

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 26, 2025

We are living in the ice age A blizzard of blind rage Remembering the spring Beneath these frozen years Buried by the snowstorm With no one to keep warm We disappear into the ice age Enshrouded in our fears Drifting alone Far from home Stagger on through the day Into dismay Innocence is so hard to recall But how can you care when you're numb from despair ? And when all's said & done What have we become Our hearts deaf & dumb Look beyond these four walls Your conscience calls Look into the eyes of those you despise Beware the reflection The common connection That cries Memories of green Summers I've seen We all seemed to change somehow The wide eyes of youth are now a dream Palaces of gold Barren & cold I long for my distant home 'Cause now I'm just wandering alone Proud unbeliever Lifetime achiever Where willl you go now That you have need of hope ? Naked in the snowstorm Who willl keep the lost warm ? Leave 'em dying in the ice age Not everyone can cope Lost inside Bit I can't hide Defend your humanity Love isn't vanity & pride Memories of light Stunning heights Before we were swept away By the scurry & the strife of modern life So hold on to what's real If we learn how to heal We'll crack the ice Humanity Trying to preserve sanity Staring at a blank wall White on white Nothing there to see Rescue me Can't you hear me begging you to set me free ? To defrost the treasure I have lost So dear was the cost Just turn away from your greed And what you need Look into the eyes of those you despise Embrace the reflection The common connection And rise Crushed by the ice storm The dawn takes a new form A bitter moon is rising The new world has been born Reverie Feel the waking dream Catastrophe Clawing at the edges I must be blind,deaf & dumb I can't see a way to stop the setting of the sun Humanity Trying to preserve sanity Staring at a blank wall White on white Nothing there to see Here I sit Staring out My window Life in the ice age A mystery to me Feeling old,& my blood's running cold Scarier still my very will to be May not hold...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

I traveled to the North Where Aurora light the dawn Danced among the Eskimos And joined the whales in song I wandered South To the undiscovered land The last remaining wilderness Unspoiled by hands of man You're staring right through Like my heart is made of glass That's all I am to you A shadow that you pass I journeyed to the East Arms wide to the rising sun To the shrines of soul & spirit Where head & heart are one I've seen the West Where science rules the day And Gods of awe & wonder Have withered & gone away You're staring right through Like my heart is made of glass But what am I to you ? Some clown who makes you laugh Can't you see this is flesh & bone Though my heart is made of clay As sure as I'm alone I'm just one look away I've renamed this earth In search of "deeper" things Always hoping for a meaning For the peace that wisdom brings No sun so hot No mountain of ice so cold No distant faith or dream Can ever fill the hole It's always been right here All the reason that I need You thawed this frozen heart of mine When you caused the rock to bleed But will you tell me what good is love If I can't even say the word Without it life is mute Like a song that goes unheard And you're staring right through Like my heart is made of glass Is that all I am to you ? I'm just too afarid to ask You could shape these hands of stone And mold this heart of clay As sure as I'm alone I'm just one look away

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

When I was waddling & the world was bright & new My daddy filled my head with tales of derring - do My momma held me & said "Child,you are free Go where your heart leads you & be what you would be" So I'm trying to move along But confined to this maze I'm just running in place They say it's all part of the game One - hundred or one - thousand or one - million miles to go Not sure where we're headed ,cause the map's been shredded The wheels ain't holdin' in the hammering snow Slipping & sliding but we're never dividing 'Til you find us fractured on the rocks below Cork your yellin' 'cause the facts ain't jellin' With the lessons you taught us so long ago So now I'm strollin' & there's nothin' much thats new My daddy shakes his head "Kid doesn't have a clue" Momma shrugs & says "He'll find his way somehow" I never was a pawn Don't plan on starting now Moonlight kisses that wink along the way Like daydreams carry me My daydreams carry me One - hundred or one - thousand or one - million miles to go Not sure where we're headed 'cause the map's been shredded The wheels ain't holdin' in the hammering snow Slipping & sliding but we're never dividing 'Til you find us fractured on the rocks below So cork your yelli' 'cause the facts ain't jellin' With the lessons you taught us so long ago Still trying to move along If you remain true you risk losing it all Survival's just part of the game One - hundred or one - thousand or one - million miles to go Not sure where we're headed 'cause the map's been shredded The wheels ain't holdin' in the hammering snow Slipping & sliding but we're never dividing 'Til you find us fractured on the rocks below So cork your yellin' 'cause the facts ain't jellin' With the lessons you taught us so long ago

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

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There was a time when we were younger We were immortal & the world was wide But thieving years have dulled my hunger And I am lulled into the autumn - tide Now gently silenced are these voices when I wake Heaven's angel smiling from the sky She wipes away the tears that drowned my dearest dreams Worthless words can never say goodbye The shining gates were held wide open Inviting you - the very next in line But when those earthly bonds were broken They stole away the only love of mine Though the divine left us long ago In the world of the base This humble man remembers you When the fever breaks & clearness comes to me Her knowing hand will guide me through the fire Hers is the lasting love that bears my dearest dreams Faithless words can never say goodbye Acts of wonder Acts of love Just keep hangin' on On my way We're all on our way Once in my life just give me the power to see Into the heart of meaning & mystery There's no easy way To say goodbye We pour our lives into the fountain And watch the oceans as they turn to black It was my dream to move the mountain And now I strain to lift my broken back And though your light left us long ago In the world of the blind This one - eyed man will find you Now gently silenced are these voices when I wake Heaven's angel smiling from the sky She wipes away the tears that drowned my dearest dreams These worthless words could never say goodbye Goodbye Acts of wonder Acts of love Just keep hangin' on On my way We're all on our way On our way We're all on our way

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025