Cold Redrafted

I came into my own Signs and premonitions But there are only question marks Learn my lesson And did my level best But to bury the last chances Was not my considered choice I met with my deserts Somehow Issue of fact I made a rod for my own back Or is it a life mission? Nightly reflections And workaday pains Sullen limitations Just to bear a load Inspired by the distress How much time for us A second or long decade A foregone conclusion

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Straight line road lights Yellow and cold blue ones Through the splotched glass From the chamber of hopelessness Shapely rows of windows torches Grey and purple layer of clouds Tor stones of human caves Thin spires of aspiration Decaying hollow Maldorous haze spreads Black smoke over works Agonized soul's shrieks Tightness in the air And who could weigh the backwash Hum from the next door room Interrupted my sleep Summer breeze strokes my skin Four years after I am here again Bending road yellow lights Vital alley of breath downstairs Grey concrete giants Zigzag ragged hackles of clouds

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

I am roaming Through the pasteboard scenery I am swallowed By the depth of obscurity It doesn't belong to me Is it someone's sleep? Sarcastic laughter Downfall through downfall Another beginning after awakening You never can tell How many dreams are in your dream Falling down in a space Then faster and faster Don't feel anything And then burst in fire Utterly There is no tomorrow Cause it'll never get here Waking within the sleep It is happening again It comes from nowhere And reiterates at every night Does it really belong to me? Another beginning after the end

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Sweet consternation Close your eyes and listen to the silence You could cut it with the knife To your heart's content Flash Extinction Impatient Enervation Vibrant with passion With bated breath Turned into stone Better than pleasure Stronger than agony Petrified Orgasmic Perception Power Temperance in motion Being unconcerned What's the difference Between life and blackness Another injection Rolls my tired eyes Nothing is different Serpents are on the ceiling

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025

The body is apart Wade through the roll of nerves Seconds of clarity And longest days of blacking out Retaliation from the Gods For the light in the end Neuroleptic illustrations Rapid spasms Sick fancies Nothing follows I am in the dead end I am in the impasse Pragmatic delusion Awaiting the accident Self-flagellation In a state of neglect Not so bad and no good Time is the best medicine But I would rather live until daybreak You have saved me trouble Obsessive recurrence Nightmare in your waking ours But dreams go by opposites You had your innings Tears stuck in the throat Voice has left the body Ashamed of myself I am doubtful what I ought to do

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Surrender to the pleasure of mistakes and fall Realize the ugliness of being unbearable Confess your strength and worthlessness Viscous existence in the quagmire of the inevitability Soar over the world Find out the cause of all causes A cosmic glow Indicate the path Don`t repress your dream of calming The lack of blood in the veins The lack of fire Maze of mental anguish Baser passions Karmic pattern Crime and Punishment Limitations and weaknesses All deeds and actions Reflected in the impermanence Nullity or throne, Poverty or wealth Generous reward At the end of the path

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Before I knew there is no light And drown in the waves of the gloom never-ending Wandered along the freezing corridors Towards the slow fading Waiting for the unknown As into electric wire Day by day Futility and idleness Through the dense mist and deadly waters Flash of light shine the essence There is an my own lighthouse Giving out the bright glow Saving from the extravagance Leading to the perfection Rising to the stars The curtain drops now Evening fever begins again Life smiles and teaches another lesson Against the grain I would go to the bank Avoiding the habitual false Just to floating adrift Following my own lighthouse Through the dense mist and deadly waters Flash of light shine the essence That I have an own lighthouse Giving out the bright glow Saving from the extravagance Leading to the perfection Rising to the stars

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Through the thicket of mind Through the black waters (of actuality) Shift the perception focus Drown in the internal lie Do not look back Burning down this coming Behind the perishability On the shortest way On the strings of illusion In the taut lines of our lives Survival of the fittest Dying with faith in words Breaking the beautiful In this crowded world The body is insane In the cell of desperation The soul is flying away Gathering all that is left On the strings of illusion In the taut lines of our lives