Lantern
Album • 2020
Orbital reversed to its planet host The cold lunar sphere triton yet revolves Heartless and unmoveable, the titan guards A disturbance far beyond the sea of stars Unleashed from the source The origin of chaos and death When the celestial bodies are aligned In the continuum of space and time The craving of these life forms Shall be sated by the boundless black vacuum To reach for proportions Grand enough for swallowing tangible realms Beware the sky Strange nebula Devour the sky Through nightmarish paroxysms Of optic nerves and cranium Breeds torment enrobed in stars Prosperous with myriad young Initiate...to annihilate Ascend from the ageless deep With feelers and fangs to feed On the minds and dreams of our kin A million headed organism rears its shape and aura Mustered from myriad parasites spawning sans oxygen Uttering its multi-constellational tongue across the void To coronate the king for a desolate and never ending dark Behold the eater of worlds The breaker of the seals The shadow which broods transcendentally Absorbing centuries to dust Salvaged from our transience Discharged from our coherence Separated from our brains The atmosphere Robs our lungs of air And the universe shall go on Despite our fleeting existence
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025
A vision of smoke and mirrored scenes Terror to choke you silently Your senses ensnared by a sickening call The presence of beings from sources beyond In the night You're alone in abhorrence In a horrendous dream-sight With awakened eyes Traces of emission The only sign of their mesmerizing presence Like fumes in stagnant air They yearn for your entrance Beings you can't fathom In a cleft between slumber and wake Shrouded by a strange glow You feel a beckoning Petrified by a sight You can't describe Like swarms of flies with cloven hooves Incarnated darkness Oozing with frogspawn eyes A fatal sight: You're in death but fail to die Hark! The humming, the murmur, the spells The backwards screams from mirror realms Smell the odour The labyrinthine scents Both bizarre and hateful Behold! The emanation of the unknown The force of all which should never be Feel their presence Spread in your lungs Your head and heart You are one with them You are one with them A being one can't fathom
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025
Three candles light the way Down these damp and stone-clad stairs They have seen men stray But never pass again Inexplicable portraits As if they stared back at you instead These mind-absorbing portraits With features to epitomize death "Just old wives' tales", you say A step and a whiff and then Two candles light the way
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025
Sleep ye unborn The candles limbs make Shall burn in the shadows Until the eye of dawn will break And the unholy brew I extract from pieces of you Lay boiling in silence embodying cold views The dark side of existence soars through my sinews Marked with your ink so thick and morbid rouge Hallowed and torn by the pains of divine The magical fire, it's the place, the time to die So sleep while father feasts upon your mind Flesh from the bone The doctrine of soul The harsh vitriol of our time unfolds Sleep yet only to wake Awaken the pains of undeath Soul-strings so many lie strung out and repressed Like Faust with fool Mephisto Lay trapped inside his chest Only for those who linger in death's dew Distorted light bid welcome to my hue What spawns of hellfire darkness will retain In this magickal theater only for the insane Minds join in madness, succumbed to this play Death at every inhale, my nightmares your fiery plains So sleep while I gallop on through your brain Flesh from the bone... And so the cauldron of souls Shall stir with the echoes of the unborn My thoughts are sealed In hegemony at peace In knowledge to bleed The dreams of the deceased Within you are mine In rapture-like violence We feast upon the agony of the ever-dying
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025
Hereafter in shades awake Enshrined in a flux of ashen visions In cloisters of godless reign Losing my way over and over again Reaching out for something firm But there's naught for me to grasp Feasting on my shambling remains Hungry lies the chasm In demise I seek resolution In signs of escape In surrender As I gaze down Into the shrine of revelation That which emanates From these crevasses I now observe Must not seep into gods' creation Let these gates be shut Gates of vanishing Gates of emptiness Remain closed One by one My senses strangely stir Oracles and landscapes full Through wormholes beyond time Once more in the life I know Was it dreams or intoxication? I turn around, there's naught to be seen Only wretched, black and barren visions I have lost my reflection I speak ye tin frequencies Only the dead can discern My soul forever enshrined An ashen kingdom come
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025
a: A vessel adrift in the heart of the sea Like a spirit of old in the clerestory Lowering down in a stark undertow Past arched walls of blue carved by water in stone In submerged dreams... Astonished by a scattering fleet A fulmination from the unreachable summit Heaven denied, thus beckons the deep Infinite howls resound Across the effervescent range Seek for profundity, and in time You shall find unrelenting bane The end of time - the end of space Their origin in this marine desolation b: Further below The horrendous underworld Searchlights reach the floor A brimless catafalque ...From cerulean vaults Blue death wildly roars c: Alas! A horrendous eye observes A serpentine tongue samples An infinite spine arches An unearthly hoof tramples In outbursts of charnel magma Spat out amidst a million stones Erupting through volcanoes In a requiem of vaulted souls The vessel flailed by pressure waves That claw through the entire sea Ascending to higher streams To reave both shore and field Their mundane recitations Hopelessly resounding As shadows brood over There's no hope for salvation Still less, to stop the aftermath As some warped amalgamation Lingering in the stream Lost in a sapphire microcosm Faltering in ecstatic mists Oxygen seeping into the sea Lifelines entwined with light Kingdoms, mountains and times Succumb to the dark
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025
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