The Lone Descent

There´s a sunspot in my eye There´s a guild of thieves that weighs me down There´s a darkness within our reach And roots that reach beneath And in this darkness shall we crawl? Overwhelmed by the void Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fire hatch out let the pain unfold Our life passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter There´s a sunspot in my soul A millstone round my neck and a Judas's kiss There´s a darkness coming in A golden troth for your emptiness And we stray through infinite nothing Haunted by our deadweight dreams Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fever hatch out let the moth unfold Our life passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter Where there´s a will there´s a way But there´s no will and the path led astray... Where there´s a will there´s a way But there´s no will and the path led astray... Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fire hatch out let the pain unfold Our life passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter Conjuring darkness black like coal Let the fever hatch out let the moth unfold Our life passes like idle chatter Life ebbs out like children stutter

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Absence makes the heart grow colder Tear you apart pulls you under And love makes the heart grow fonder Lift you up only to rip you assunder Look at me Look at me We´re falling Your face...is veiled to me A seal of smoke covers thee How can you breath in times like these? Your covert ops, how you tease Look at me You´re all lit up Like a christmas tree Solitude makes the heart grow stronger Purifies makes you ponder If this is it? Or just some random anomaly? Look at me Look at me You´re burning Your heart is veiled to me Do you exist? Is this reality? Your reflection sways before my eyes How i wish you would lay down your disguise Look at me Look at me I´m calling

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

I saw a pyre of black sunflowers Trapped in a swarm of moths And swallows crying heimve / heimat Hovering on the storm Soaring above the golden corn So gracefully And then a sadness gripped me All shall pass Our love corrupts Turn to ghost To dust I saw a pyre of dreams And my heart's decay in full bloom I left my love behind And my darkness was her groom And from darkness we come To darkness we grow In darkness we call In darkness through and through Our love corrupts Turn to ghost To dust Bleib Bei Mir Bleib Bei Mir Bleib Bei Mir Bleib Bei Mir The things we love the most Shall sour and turn to ghosts And the things we inmost crave Shall make a beautiful grave I live with melancholy My friend is vague distress I wake up every morning And say, "Bonjour tristesse"

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

There's something out of place Out of time, out of grace Something breached, something broke Are you cold now? You're cold now Break it apart, tear it apart There is something wrong with your heart Tear it apart, break it apart There's a tumor within your heart This pitied love, this petty life This emptiness we leave behind This pitied life, this petty love This silence from above Shall we become or endure? Exactly what I'm unsure And the void smiles back And the joy gags on sour grapes Break it apart, tear it apart There is something wrong with your heart Tear it apart, break it apart There's a tumor within your heart This pitied love, this petty life This emptiness we leave behind This pitied life, this petty love Cursed from above Break it apart, tear it apart There is something wrong with your heart Tear it apart, break it apart There's a tumor within your heart This pitied love, this petty life This emptiness we leave behind This pitied life, this petty love This silence from above Break it apart, tear it apart There's something wrong with your heart Tear it apart, break it apart There's a tumor within our hearts This pitied love, this petty life This emptiness we leave behind This pitied life, this petty love Cursed from above

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Behold the stars They all burn They´ll all burn out And we are dust Dust in timeless space And love is a flame Devouring moths And we are dust Yes we´re dust in time and space Take a look at the sun It will fall will you run? Oh don´t you know? We´re lost in endless pain

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Your emptiness overwhelms me Thrusts and overtakes me This shrine of black tears Within a vault of black prayers The universe caves in I´m on fire Let the end begin Take courage! And when nothing remains No love nor pain In this illusion This tomb of seasoned dye The universe caves in I´m on fire Let the end begin Take courage! From the slow decay of life To the galloping empty days I would have flung myself in the fire But i hesitate And the antimatter within my heart From this - nothing leaves nothing enters The useless lingering and severed love This lit the parade (Possibly something French) A carrion flower dressed in the sun A blinding image bathed in providence And should you stray from the path You shall know them by their fruits I should have flung myself in the fire I really should I should have flung myself in the fire I really should

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

A life at end? The great all around the bend? Or a dark descent? On a bed of emptiness Engulfed by hovering borrowed time Thick with flies Our hearts turn away As our love decays Will you keep your nightmares at bay? The harder you struggle the tighter the noose Is it out of our hands or the paths we choose? Is it out of our hands or the death we choose? The rain lake and stars Your splendour and emptiness Swans in the dark My horrid loneliness And aeons without you Aeons without you The harder you struggle the tighter the noose Is it out of our hands or the paths we choose? Is it out of our hands or the death we choose?

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Words ring hollow Clouds draw in Discouraged Spring rides on Embrace the solitude The fruit of life Sorrow deep Impenetrable Watch the skyline catch fire Strangers come and go There's death on your lips I never knew Our tears are water Under the bridge A distant memory Before i go to sleep Watch the skyline catch fire Swallows come and go I was never really here But these streets know my name Behold I'm nothing

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Will i burn, dear? This constant hum Ringing out from empty halls Can you hear me through the rubble, my love? The bleakest shroud A coffin well laid Anointed by our weakness, my love Embalmed with vacant tears, my love I brace myself as my heart implodes Reach out for the sunlight Never to unfold We move through the silence and dive into darkness Succumb to the emptiness of this lone descent These absent days Forged in empty gaze Shadowed by myself, my love A herald from above, my love Another bridge has burned Another lesson learned Nothing holds sway, my love If I could I surely would, my love I brace myself as my heart implodes Reach out for the sunlight Never to unfold We move through the silence and dive into darkness Succumb to the emptiness of this lone descent Oh my little boy what have you become? A shadow of yourself a moth caught in the sun? We move through the silence and dive into darkness Succumb to the emptiness of our lone descent

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

So it ends as it began With a sigh goodbye Down in the mire Underneath love's ugly pyre And I miss you and i miss you Always in my heart But we push forward, plunge onward Always towards the end A love a caress Unreturned You stick your hand in the fire And I know how the story goes But I miss you and I miss you Always in my heart But we push forward, plunge onward Always further apart Did you forget me Or remember with unease I fall in submission To this life's disease And these years have passed This love now gone I fall on my knees I kneel in awe How cold this heart has become And I miss you and I miss you Always in my heart But we push forward, plunge onward Always towards the end Yes, I miss you and I miss you Always in my heart But we push forward, plunge onward Always towards the end

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

The veils trails and trials In hearts rites and dreams And count your blessings The night has no end Let go Give in Succumb Hail that emptiness The things that you let in Are the things that might leave you dead Don´t speak words are futile And time will erase the rest The night distilled* with tears Unfruitful loveless empty Let go Give in Succumb Share my emptiness The things that you let in Are the things that might leave you dead The burned out incense of a buried love Empty halo rising above You are the one of that i'm sure But shall the fear become the cure? The fear of letting go That has buried me in this field of snow

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026