The Warning

Warning! I remember I was asking why, and someday you said I'd know. All these years of fighting hard and now it's finally come too close. I can't believe it's now happening to me, now couldn't it wait a few hundred years. Destiny can't rest you see, now it's time, a time to cry your tears. Now cry! The child of centuries forgotten in time, you talk in circles of rhyme. Seer of places future and past, the warning you gave us is surely our last. Warning... Behold the child, his pointing hand when it's raised in solemn grace, his eyes once wide with learning wonder now leave stains, stains upon his face. Now see the hands of the working man, he's leaning back, back against the wall. Once busy hands are idle now, standing ready, ready for the fall! Our fall! The signs will come as days pass by for those that claim to see. The blind will stay, not choosing to die, not believing the visions I've seen. Warning...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Light tracers follow me further into the depths of the unknown. The blackness surrounding the borders of hope, we're alone. We plead for the signs of a second chance in hopes it will stifle the fear. The dying remains of a world gone insane, we are near the end. A course that will lead us through darkness, prepared by our leaders insist. We mustn't fall prey to the shadow of the iron fist. We enter the void with our eyes straight ahead, the force all around us we feel. The twisted contusions of hatred will finally reveal. Enforcer... Master of nations revealed, the beams from his soul you will feel. Slicing and tearing our way to the gate, a towering fortress of blackened steel. Desolate plains holding dying remains, heed the call of the master. We'll soar to the edges of time! Light tracers follow me further into the depths of the unknown. The blackness surrounding the borders of hope, we're alone. We plead for the signs, give us a second chance in hopes it will stifle the fear. The battered remains of world gone insane, we are near. Enforcer... Master of nations revealed, the beams from his soul you will feel. Enforcer... Master of nations revealed, the beams from his soul you will feel. Once long ago we had to hide in the shadows of the land to keep us away from the crawl, Enforcer's taking hold of us all.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 25, 2025

Ride swift across the plain, don't you turn back, keep heed in your flame. Kings with no mercy, this planet at war, torn from enchantment this land forevermore. Born from obsession, you cried death for light, you saw things before and after you died. Back from beyond to rule again but this life denies you, its fight to the end. Back from the dawn, deliver us right from wrong. Kings forge the way for your last day. You search the eyes of those who fear the law. Dark and light, we all must keep the balance strong. One day a king will rise with the sun, the moon, and the stars. And you are he and you must die to be born again, come again, once more be again the king. Back from the dawn, deliver us right from wrong. Kings forge the way for your last day.

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025

There's a certain feeling known to all who hear the sound, the call of morning rising. You're in a mystic space, can't you feel the force embrace, the chill of the wind as it names you. Oh can't you see the lies in front of you? Your journey ends so far and still the distance spins round and round you. Now you cry "Give me sanctuary!", you scream but no one listens. Again you cry "Give me sanctuary!". Until the end I'll fight and die to be free. Oh, no sanctuary! You're walking halfway in but crawling halfway out. There's a void in your mind that you cling to. You feel lost in time, you've got no words to rhyme, no more charms, no more spells to protect you. Oh can't you see the lies in front of you? Your journey ends so far and still the distance spins round and round you. Now you cry "Give me sanctuary!", you scream but no one listens. Again you cry "Give me sanctuary!". Until the end I'll fight and die, I've got to be free. No sanctuary... Round and round and round and round you. Round and round you! Now you cry "Give me sanctuary!", you scream but no one listens. Again you cry "Give me sanctuary!". Until the end I'll fight and die, I've got to be free. No sanctuary...

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

Machines have no conscience! Uniform printout reads end of line, protect code intact leaves little time. Erratic surveys, free thinking not allowed. My hands shake, my push buttons silence the outside crowd. One world government has outlawed war among nations, now social control requires population termination. Have we come too far to turn around, does emotion hold the key? Is logic just a synonym for this savagery disguised in forgotten lost memory? Microchip logic, have we no more thoughts? "Is this wrong" I enter, answers sought. Punch, punch, punch, transfer this data into code. Wide eyes watch my number, 156 is shown. Created from past life to perform illicit function, I fail this conscious madness. I, Man/Machine imperfection! Have we come too far to turn around, does emotion hold the key? Is logic just a synonym for this savagery disguised in forgotten lost memory? End of line...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Red gates of iron cast their black shadows on this land, dividing souls far below. The gathering winds, the armies watch are rising from the west, foretelling news of freedom's hand. In secrecy they've infiltrated all of our strongholds, controlling more year after year. So we've let this happen all along believing what's been said. Our leaders cry, we have no one to fear. We watch the sun rise and hope, we watch the sun rise and hope that it won't be our last. Before the storm... Is it late to try, must we all die? Our system awaits tests, freedom by choice. Is it for all man best? So we wait in fear, the atom split, our hearts in two be torn. Learn from the past before the storm. We watch the sun rise and hope, we watch the sun rise and hope that it won't be our last. Before the storm...

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 25, 2025

Born into darkness in Saturn's sight, riding the night like the wind. Ripping the heart form a world that is right, treading the borders of sin. Child of fire! The souls that are damned by the pain that you bring send you higher. Slashing destruction, your right hand sword ringing, to the ends of the earth you will fly. Conquering masses in wanton deception, blood-red your black flag waves high. Child of fire! The souls that are damned by the pain that you bring send you higher. Look around, is this the end that you have foreseen, the pain, the misery in us all? What was it that you knew, will we one day learn it too, and together build another way to the morning? Or will it ever come again? You've poisoned all our hopes, we have nothing now. And what of the children, what has this done to them? Damn you for the pain that they must feel. The last hero standing, no time to turn back. He's listening, he waits for your call. The black barren plains reflect the hope of the same for one only waiting to fall. Child of fire! The souls that are damned by the pain that you bring send you higher.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Most of this is memory now, I've gone too far to turn back now. I'm not quite what I thought I was but then again I'm maybe more. The blood-words promised I've spoken, releasing the names from the circle. Maybe I can leave here now and transcend the boundaries. For now I'm standing here, I'm awaiting this grand transition. The future is but past forgotten on the road to madness. Times measure rusts as it crawls, I see its face in the looking glass. Stop, this screaming laughter hides the pain of its reality. Black, the door was locked I opened and now I've paid that price ten-fold over. Knowledge,was it worth such torment, to see the far side of shadow? And still I'm standing here, I'm awaiting this grand transition. I'm a fool in search of wisdom, and I'm on the road to madness. I'm awaiting endlessly, pounding rhythms echo me. Won't you take me somewhere far beyond the void? And still I'm standing here, I'm awaiting this grand transition. Maybe one day I'll meet you and we'll walk the roads to madness. I think they've come to take me, I hear the voice but there's no one to see. I can't scream, too late it's time! Stay on the course to pass, you'll never find the answer to a place where darkened angels seemed lost and never found. Scream to see the light of Forming figures fast behind you, lay the past in the wind to spin and your fate will sail beyond the open plains. Sail with angels onward, live or die for the chosen one said. Saber sights cast a spell behind you and they lock in all around. Free the scene insider, never looking back to find why. Ride a course till the end of time and you'll stand atop the gate. Laying waste in a path recited, fighting force won't avenge the guided black wing. Electric might poses fright inside me Seeing light at the end of sight reminds me I've passed away.

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025