We March Forward

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While gazing at the fire Hear me, o dark soothsayer We meet in this moonlit night Old clairvoyant and beastslayer No witness to our conclave But skulls with hollow eyes Black shadows dance with the flames And tonight the creature dies Ready to strike with torch and steel The beast in the night I'll fight and kill With sword and fire I rise Tonight the creature dies I vanish into the black And mingle with stone and tree My quest will have but one end My death or my victory Ready to strike with torch and steel The beast in the night I'll fight and kill A flash of the blade A flaming arc Will announce my arrival And ignite the dark

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 25, 2025

Before the gates of Ilion The bodies of brave warriors lie We have come from distant lands To siege and conquer or die Far above the stormclouds gather Dark as the high stone walls We attack never to yield Until the city falls And lightning struck from the sky And we marched to kill or die Gates of Ilion Fire burns the sky Behold the son of Telamon Fearless, strong, godlike As he casts a whirling rock The heir of Priam to strike Diomedes' charge is deadly Many men he fells in rage And the gods walk the fields of battle As both armies engage And arrows rained from the sky And all throats howled the war cry Gates of Ilion Fire burns the sky Sarpedon's speech: My friend, if we could escape this war and live forever without growing old; If we were ageless, I would not fight on in the first line of battle, nor would I send you to those wars where men attain glory. But now, a myriad of shapes of death attack us, no mortal man can avoid. So let's go forward, and bestow glory upon others or conquer it for ourselves! And lightning struck from the sky And we marched to kill or die Gates of Ilion Fires reach the sky So many fallen lie dead So many men to be mourned And the tears stream down Tethys' face Of her son's fate she'd been warned Soon we will cross the gates In victory to burn and destroy Forever all men will remember The fall of the city of Troy

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

Since time immemorial man has prayed to the gods carving altars sacrificing to avert disgrace statues have been sculpted to the blind goddess of luck But nothing will prevent the course of Fatum god of fate Fate is unyielding Fate did decide Relentless god whose rule is law By which even gods abide Fate is inexorable Fate will crush your life or Fate will place you on a throne To triumph you must fight But you can't triumph on your own Fate is inexorable You cannot cower you must suffer the arrows and slings And you may yet receive the prizes that good fortune brings The ancient sisters weave the threads Dictate your destiny You walk the road that leads to glory or fatality Fate is inexorable And if you have the strength for taking your life in your hands Maybe Fate will smile upon you Before your journey ends To gods above for love and bliss you may wish to pray But maybe only Fate's the one that truly leads our way What hold the hands of Fate? "Ducunt uolentem fata, nolentem trahunt" - Cicero

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 25, 2025

When the sun begins to rise And the mist fades and dies Night is left behind On towards a clear sky In a sea of golden light I taste the freedom that's mine I draw the sword I draw the sword! Friends now gone are left behind But I did not run out of time And I still carry my sword Winding road where do you lead Will I triumph, will I bleed I trust my strength and my speed I wield the sword I wield the sword My own lord I draw the sword

Taken down below where the decadent assemble To the hole whose name makes all gladiators tremble The place where slaves are crushed and fed to human beasts The caverns made of iron like the shackles on my wrists Iron pits Sand made of ground bone Iron pits I stand to fight alone Iron Pits Where savagery dictates Iron Pits Who lives to cross the gates The darkness foul and primal holds torches flickering Specks of diseased lighting circling the ring Arena drenched in blood where gods of death abide Where if one survives only strength and speed decide One day I'll kill the tyrants I'll wield the iron blades Laugh as I behead them and watch as their life fades But now there's just a whirlwind of swords that clash and sing And a longing for the glory that my victories will bring Bludgeoning and slashing, screaming as I maim To live beyond this horror is my one and only aim With sinew, bone and blood, with strength and skill and wits I'll fight to slay and vanquish and rise from the iron pits

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025

To the mire of delusion I was cast Gnarly trees around me hide the faint monsters of my past Visions in my mind Dire warnings of the terrors I may find Foul beasts that lurk Deadly in the murk I must vanquish All that’s left behind The life that was mine I relinquish Distant lightning, death or worse Fearing neither hex nor curse Into the night, ready to fight I walk in this accursed maze Fighting my fear knowing evil is near Ever till the end of my days Any time may be the time to die Mortal weakness the gods are deriding in the sky Beastly howls I hear Inhuman throats drawing near Gust of wind blows Terror that grows I suppress Fear holding sway Ready to slay On I press Twisting pathways, rank damp stench Knotted root and crooked branch Into the night, ready to fight I walk in this accursed maze Fighting my fear knowing evil is near Ever till the end of my days Vile forest, deathly gloom Evil fate, swamp of doom

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

A life spent walking dusty paths Twixt endless realms to roam A cave upon a windswept crag Was for a while my home I swam a channel full of sharks And climbed the steepest walls And I saw phantoms gleam at night And I heard their eerie calls Upon a blacksmith's anvil I have seen the sparks fly mad And often since my sword's blade Has been painted bloody red Golden spires blazing Beneath a baking sun And dark valleys were witness To the wanderings I have done "And I have known a deathless queen in a city old as Death, Where towering pyramids of skulls her glory witnesseth. Her kiss was like an adder’s fang, with the sweetness Lilith had, And her red-eyed vassals howled for blood in that City of the Mad." I sometimes find myself As if by chance alone To tread old well-known pathways Of ancient cobblestone The air itself whispers to me My weary bones are sore So maybe I can spend the night To then journey evermore "And I have slain a vampire shape that drank a black king white, And I have roamed through grisly hills where dead men walked at night. And I have seen heads fall like fruit in a slaver’s barracoon, And I have seen winged demons fly all naked in the moon." (Quotations are from the poem 'Homecoming' by Robert E. Howard)

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025

Behold, the dark spire looms Perched upon yon mountain black Howling winds like furies scream As if flying to attack Across the moat’s watery depths Hiding shapes that swim beneath Jawlike gaping drawbridge beckons With dark metal pointed teeth And I cross Towards the dark Beyond the portcullis Spiders weave their fatal webs Framed in tragic bony white And town madmen tell the tales Of spectres dealing mortal fright Is the bounty worth the risk Can a blade kill what is dead Does the labyrinth hold foes That lie in wait to cut my head

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 25, 2025

A dark banner stabs the red sky Winds of war blow and armoured fighters march on Heavy are the hearts of men Voices silent, unbroken the sound of chainmail and shield Under the red sun of Mars And the ominous flights above Ravens fly Birds of doom Kill or die Battles loom Warriors to the slaughter holding their swords Warriors marching to die Dark grim helmets never turn back Ravens caw, dead eyes will be pecked tonight Relentless the gods of war Drums will pound Steel will sing Dreadful sound Fatal sting Warriors to the slaughter holding their swords Warriors marching to die The Ravensire holds up the sign All about it the fray will be chaos unleashed But forward to the end we march March on

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025