In Pieces

She does not answer Lips are pale and still Mother can’t feel my arm She has no pulse, nor will If I could see dawn as a new day If I could see past this strife These patterns in life unchanging Taunting If I could usher in a new age And see beyond today If I could gather the strength To move on Life’s thread was broken I hear you calling No waking up now, as this nightmare unfolds I cannot bear I don’t belong here Please don’t go This world is not my own Take me home If I could see dawn as a new day…

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 25, 2025

I am not the only one… I am not the only one To foresee the fall of God I am not the only one To take pride in all I’ve found I am not the only one To feel pain from all I’ve found I am not the only one To know faith from all I’ve found I am not the only one… Receive a calling It’s not secondhand How can I know for sure? I know I know for sure Starfire Shrouds the sky Desire Born from lies Inspire Breed hive mind Admire God on high (Excerpt from “The Shrinking Man”) So close, the infinitesimal and the infinite But suddenly I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet Like the closing of a gigantic circle I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens, the universe, worlds beyond numbers God’s silver tapestry spread across the night And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite And I felt my body dwindling Pupils amass, give all to your Father Give all you’ve got, don’t succumb to greed It’s not enough, you must do more Serve me, your spirit be free I can’t reason with the truth I was never meant to make it this far Devise Design Mortal decay Wasting away Devise Design Heresy

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 25, 2025

Flight Rapture Escape this world Beckon spirits Heathen or no Without alarm, without a warning Constricted mass exploding My path diverging and I wandering I’ve lost my way and I’m still floating They told me to repent my sins They told me to believe I was wrong, but I won’t take it back Don’t need you to take me I won’t do your will I won’t get down on my knees I am so far away Endless space surrounds me I’ll float for eternity

Where strides behemoth? Where damage massive dwells Wake fills with ocean Level plain with crushing swells Enormity crashes through the mountains Avalanche washes over its feet Fields destroyed Monstrosity wanders ever inward Razing the town in single stride Gaping void Humongous I see it I hear it I fear it Turn around and grab the nearest weapon Pitchforks and torches and the mob is on its way To kill the beast and mount its head upon a spire A monument to those who conquered sin In pieces Rebuild We must rebuild

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 25, 2025

Return to conscious A brief sigh of regret The events that occurred Nothing more than a dream I lie awake contemplating Watching the hour hand As it crawls reluctantly In endless circles Go through the motions And brood the sunlight Waiting for night to arrive So that the next musing can begin Falling forever This world is not real Run from your fears This world is not real I hope it’s not real Wake up startled Sweating, heart racing Expecting to see everyone And everything still here How could something that felt so real Just be in my head The realm of reality Ruled by failure and death Why even wake up? Return of the fallen This world is not real Grasp the apparition This world is not real Why can’t it be real? This wasteland goes on forever Every way I look Endless horizon Structures change form The end of gravity Time shattered the aeons Faces shift shape And nothing is real

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 25, 2025

A plague of the mind Phantom glares The night is young Can’t escape this hell I can’t walk I can’t crawl I mean nothing I am nothing Unable to move Shadows with disfigured faces Limbs thrash A cadaverous shriek A blight on the soul Spirits swarm Apparition dissolves The visions are dead A life filled with regrets An awful burden for such a weak soul I can’t move It’s all just in our heads Even if this sorrow overwhelms I must move Slash at their flesh, rip off their limbs, crush all their bones This world is not real Burn off their skin, slice through their skulls, harvest their souls This world is not real

Relenting Resenting You are my world I can’t begin to understand your self-destruction This must not go any further, but I’m not in control With black cloud above me, here I stand Knee deep in the quickened sand Relenting Resenting You are my world

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 25, 2025

She said to start the revolution Spread the word across the seas Scream our rebel yell in protest Bring this evil to its knees We are the chosen ones At least that is what we’re told She promised change, a new beginning To cast aside the ways of old You go, I don’t Detractors say the cause is futile We’ll never stop their evil ways But we must tip the scales of justice In equilibrium it stays I remain ignorant To this devastating truth Everything hangs in the balance And we have everything to lose You go, I don’t

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025