Honor Found in Decay

I'll walk into the water, To wash the blood from my feet. My path is ever holding, My shadows claimed release. The sky it holds my father, The sun recalls my soul. The reasons forgotten, Of lessons learned in oak, My always wanting watchers, They laugh and slash at my mind. The deafening redeemer, Lays me down and feeds me time, Death was my first companion, It showed me life and it snuffed it out. The vision never ending, Of the ghouls tearing through and out. All rage in gold the flower... Pull me in to see, The battles break me but I am given, To the lost lord, Within the circle of the clarion's eye.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

This is no soil to forgive, The blaze of a helios sky. Rage will blossom into iron; Blind as a worm in the earth. Our pain will rise, And breathe a new dawn. When the illusion clears, All we are is blood We gnaw and pull at the root; A starved beast with the mind of a fool. Skin stretched over bone cannot hide, The way we are bleeding inside. Beyond vision beats the drum. Blood makes no excuse. The one eyed all become kings, While shadows creep from dark holes. A taste of acidic bitter, Burns the voice out of the skull. Smoke from a gaping wound; Spirit already flown. Views eternal from a sunken eye Over a bridge of spectral light Winds wither, rake, and weather Prophecy flows in whispers In a shadow world, We hide the light. The paths become clear, the road's true Oaths have been sworn. The temporal spirals away, Among the teeth of time.

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Bleeding light in a life spent in broken arms, Can't return my soul to the mountain. Desperate eyes reach the sleeping dark vessel Filling within the desert. Visions raining destroying where I began. Set adrift, I pray to the oceans. Waves of dreams, Bear my heart for deliverance. The closer I get the further, I become...become...become... ...the beast that conquered me, And traveled through my head, And sprayed like blood on you, And left me buried beneath the river.

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

When the serpent swallowed its tail, With a half eaten heart. The god of reason deserts me. Only earth and sky remain; Mountains shake and wake me. Words of the seeress reveal. Carve out my eye that I might see, Treacherous thoughts unfold In time and show their nature. Bleed the pig of its lies. On the wind we're forced to call. Call upon the fates as always. On the wind we're forced to call. Call upon the fates as always. Scrape the black tar from your past life. Let its weight burn away. Stand within the guiding power. Its current draws you clean.

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

The sun is rising in the valley And the sorrow breaks the dawn The casting of the ages Shows us the one and the one We prepare the passage We see that it is done The borrowers they see us And ask for what has come Before us lay veils of water Behind us sets the sun We'll sleep with no dreams tonight Tomorrow we'll leave as one The rising is no illusion The fallen have become The wisdom is ancient Our reason bleeds the sun Fading through the season The endless age is one A temple within us Brings the judgement to the sun

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

In time the silence gives way The grain betrays our larval state Seethe Burn All Standing wild on ragged stones Waiting to be To be found To be found The water flowing slow and black The air of the blackbirds all Standing wild on ragged stones Waiting to be To be found To be found Looking away from the fall of tomorrow Tunneling through all the black that will follow Tearing the sickness from hearts that are hollow Cracking the bones to get at the marrow

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

I can't walk away anymore. The moon stuck the promise through my heart. Lighting strikes and leads me through. Bleeding walk, as the surging oceans hold on me. Her fingers reach to raise the dawn. All the rest have fallen on, Returning to the sun. All the rest have fallen on, The pressure released. Father's distant whispered eyes, Guide me to the mountain. Her fingers reach to raise the dawn. All the rest have fallen on, Returning to the sun. All the rest have fallen on, The pressure released.

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025