The Grave of Civilization

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Relics and dust beneath My weary feet All that remains Of the world I remember Acrid and fertile the stench of decay Enters my mind And writes in my soul This desolate place, once so alive Is now dead and cold I envy the dead The grave of civilization It stretches all around me The silence is painful It cannot be kept out I’m left alone with The sound of emptiness My footfalls echo off The monoliths of grey concrete Relics and dust beneath My weary feet, all that remains Of the world I remember Paint with destruction Upon canvas of concrete The proud laid low Lives are rendered in bone Where once the hives of man Strove to pierce the sky A warren of decay spreads For mile upon mile A gentle blanket of ash Smothers remembrance and grief But none are left alive No one still breathing to weep Ominous mournful clouds Shroud the ghost of the sun I wander these ruins alone And beg for the end to come Skeletal remains of buildings Claw at the poisoned sky Like withered fossilised hands Of long dead gods Corpse city shells Of extinct titan insects The howl of the restless wind Through the rusted pipes An assemblage of melancholy artifice The arrogant folly Of mankind’s avarice The swollen red sun sets For the final time In a thousand years The dead glassy earth is growing cold Filthy snow tumbles Form a sickly glowing sky It settles upon the endless Ruin and bones There can be no return from this I envy the dead

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

Be apt epitaph To be found When intelligence Rears its burdened lolling head Upon unwilling shoulders Birthed from The earth and suns embrace

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Temple of stagnation Hives of glass and steel Monstrous edifice of enslavement All hope crushed between the gears Million bound in chains of commerce Construction cities made of bleached bone Abased before our gods of greed Grind the bodies of the sacrificed Inside the gears of the world machine Fossil fuel incense chokes the sun To usher in the final age of man Is this what we wanted Is this what we fought for Is this what we wanted Is this what we died for We dishonour the dead Process of restricted thought Enforced dogmatic action Kneel to alters of subservience Beg for scraps from bloated masters Lay our hands on ruptured soil And know we chose to violate the earth Billions weep under cloying skies Starless sunless cursed wastes Spread your arms wide And embrace this world we made For ourselves

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025

Centuries of blood bow your head and weep What seeds have been sown in genocides heart Soot and grime weigh down lives Lived in fear under an empty sky Boundless with out the lie of a god Who put us on this earth to suffer Never doubt that we are alone The universe is cold and does not care So live your life free and without guilt There is no vengeful god for you to fear If we are not enslaved to some figment of our minds We gladly chain ourselves to some flag our great ideal Such limitations bind constrict and crush the life away We could have been so much instead We chose to bow down and fail Fade away where we belong Nothing will change the world remains the same Everything you dreamed Would come instead a dream remains And no more can we tolerate this structure Forced upon us by another’s fate We will pass into the dark And none shall mourn this unmarked grave In shallow earth our achievements rot With none but the stars as witness On mute epitaph if only you could sing What songs would you weave Of all that could have been What tragedy and glory sacrifice and salvation None of this will come to pass Now our race bows low with shame All our works will be as dust

My voice has become a distant echo In an empty world Conversant with the ghost of dead memories Truth be told I like the solitude Now that I am alone

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025