Vessels of Light and Decay

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Caught here in these nebulous planes of capsized consciousness Musings have lost their lustre, at exile in the now and after Verging between ages of turbulence and outbursts of fleeting calm Silent expedient motion, the inert drive of these limbs that shiver Vessels of light and strength dissolve in the bowels where affliction thrives And murmured prayer to a Lord beyond only withers any scattered remnants of faith In the end surrendered to the tyranny of the truculent selft Caving in to stealth and lies, diving head first into cosmic divide Stripped away from the flame of elation A stark wholeness that can freeze the skin All trust placed in the vastness of time Inner deconstruct, reset and release Sleepwalking through life, blind to the currents and neon signs Through arrogant kindness, paradigm shifts and fractured attempts to exalt the mind Here in this dark night, the parasite ego must finally subside Strangle its sense of whole, watch it drown so you may rise Destroying every damning trigger Burning all symbols so they may flow pure Through the fields of the unseen To transmute and dissolve Time erases nothing The sun will no longer shine Tomorrow will not be brighter Your eyes will truly open as you pass through the flames Head to the light When the days get darker When the nights grow colder When the beasts grow wilder And the end looms closer Head to the light

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

The morning ash is hither Vanished is the haze of dreams Barely thirteen hours left To erode this soul's disease A jaded umbra beaten and weak Its mortal shell ready to cave in Blinded as the blinds go up To let the flooding begin Seems forever since the very last time this ageing ghost was known to glide cuffed and blinded by demons so vile, whoever could have thought it to rise in this grey morning? Through bewildered eyes, the flame Begins to flicker as the shades start crawling in Their morbid gala sets the scene To tap into the true force of the abyss In this ashen morning This day, awaken Tear down the wall, edge the blades Summon the banished soul and gaze Inside, rip out its seething cancer Sever this morbid rot from the inner eye Be alive

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

'twixt veils and candles, in a den of fertility Tonight's passage brings youth, wine and depravity Maenads awaken, your cravings unleashed But a greater hunger dwells within the beast With shining silver I did thee receive With my bare hands and teeth I do you release As your frail neck sways in a dream-like haze Our claws slash away at each other's face Your head deconstructed with beautiful ease Our flesh torn apart in an ecstatic frenzy Your soft skinned torso sliced into half It brightens our zenith and colours the sky Our love is rich with honey and venom Amor mori, memento fati Your innards dance, entranced with honey and venom Amor vincit omnia Our scattered limbs birth poetry from sorrow Tonight's sown seeds, the broken dreams of tomorrow As Aphrodite rises from a sea of gore The womb is dissolved and the future is born A future of hope, a scene set for tragedy 'twixt candles and veil, in a maze of futility

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

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I - The Banishing II - The Sphere III - The Children of Coma I The visions might have appeared in a lucid dream Space feels eternal, the trance must have settled in Gazing straight into the ether to unearth the key Motionless for hours yet miles away from here The gateway now behind, and the Mysteries far ahead As the trees close in above me, no one left by my side The pinnacle looks furthest, still I relish the path To ensnarement and latitude, away from shame and doubt To transcend the bounds of consensus reality And to cherish the nascent cognitive liberty I traverse further above, then further down to rebuild Clouds begin to disperse, as abstract truths are revealed Surviving trials of an age, uprooted within inner depths Their bright shadow echoing in the dark splendour of the universe To abide all fear and embrace the mystery As we savour the flesh of untold possibility To reveal, to revive, to be at cause To shatter the illusion of complacence and vice To face the unfamiliar and bend the linear To never take a seat at the play of chance I beseech thy effigy to indulge me this once Maul and crush my body and blow my mind II Illuminated or buried in life I flee the claws of self-deceit And, free from the shackles of conceit and vanity To will, to live and to defy insanity To trance-migrate into states of divinity To feel the force of the uncertain and Vital The sphere is turning, its dark maw wide open The spurious light that once blinded now frozen Quod est inferius, est sicut quod est superius Thus is the glory of the world begotten Ubique Daemon - ubique Deus My bloodstream the ink to a contract eternal Into the vast, freer than ever, I fall III The children of coma Crammed into a corner They've noticed my presence They are staring at me Their eyes cut the darkness Their laughter breaks the silence They've noticed my presence They are smiling at me Their eyes slice the darkness Their laughs infest the silence They've noticed my presence They are seeing into me

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

For ages it has seemed, day, night And seasons just blend into one From the stillness of these ruined halls Such lifeless falls, beds long dried In endless struggle to excise the dread Of staying or leaving behind And parting with revelries past Yet hosting and nursing all that's despised Fugitives from static thought The joys and rues of cities behind May a new day come to find The shields relinquished The masks undone So it is done A haven flooded by rain Drifting away with the tide From faces I'll never see again To be all and none with all Cleansed, washed ashore The ego's fabric dissolved Naked, at sunrise, touch wide open Like a newly born How did it come to this? The truth erupts Like lava and burning flame From deep within For every childhood dream, one thousand wasted means One horizon out of reach One moment strangled by fear As time sleeps away from me To always be Unveiled

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025