A Shadow of Memories

When each remembered rapture murmurs This is when she lied Yet even doubt is by some doubt denied This is when she lied Now the madness comes down like a flood Poisoning the honest currents of my blood Is this desire, love, of this madness most That aches in me to know That aches in me to know… That you are lost?

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025

Our soul’s sorrows seek us most with dawn Crawling through dirtied windows Longing to be known and felt But your ever somber trail of thoughts Rescue will never easily be taught If only our healing tears Could ease the weight of memories The same old ghostly haunting of your eyes And the old poisonous mist of memories Rises about me, and the old desire Quickens along my veins in sharper fire O! I am lost, you will not set me free Unless I turn again, and seek the sea Some vague new world of waters, bounded by The soft and sudden barrier of the sky

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 25, 2025

You say you're breaking my heart I say break it all I say you breathe in you breathe out But this has to go out I say I only need to feel free But here is no release You say every end has a start And fear will fall apart Like birds toward an open sky Who reach their purpose well The softened moonlight for our Broken hopes to dwell You'll wonder where we'll all go Us with wounds is all we know And the gifts we were given Back to the swarm of a distant heaven

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

This riddle won’t dissolve For the maze is too dense but what’s there more to solve when a mind loses sense Lost in time, in space there goes my lost defense what faded yesterday praises again a last romance Let it last stirring sea one more drink is for my fears Let is last stirring sea Seven suns will rise with thee Let is last stirring sea One more drink is for my tears Let is last stirring sea Seven suns will rise with thee He who has entered by this sorrow’s door Is neither dead nor living any more Nothing can touch me now, except the cold Of whitening years that slowly make youth old Hunger, that makes the body faint, one thought That ends all memory for the future, nought My future ended yesterday, I have Only a past, on this side of the grave Nothing can touch me now, except the cold Of whitening years that slowly make youth old

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

In those mysterious jewels of your eyes Wrought with vain truths, and wrought with vainer lies When passion made me wizard, I have read And turned away, blind with exceeding dread I never knew you; you could give your whole Heart’s life, but not the silence of your soul I never knew you when you loved me most And now that you are the unquiet ghost Part of the very element of fire A breath, a flame, a shadow of desire

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

Out of another world you come to me And hollow, hollow, hollow as the tomb Sound the indifferent words that speak my doom And hollow, hollow, hollow can it be My voice that sounds so strangely in my ears You bid me speak, and I, in dumb despair Forgetting all my agonies of prayer Beckon to you across a mist of tears All’s over now I know that you are lost And love is dead, for I have met Love’s ghost

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025