Lovesongs of the Forsaken

Tearstained are the halls of my empty soul, Melancholia's haunting call is the only one I have known. Innocence has lead me into this void, While years eroded a youth I never enjoyed. Through childhood I slept, Unsheltered from the scorn. Now, I've awakened with age to love ever lorn. Forever and ever, I'll search for the solace, Which can only be found in an embrace. In throes of desolation, I prayed unto divinity. I endured the emptiness and frigid pain, But, even God had forsaken me. I prayed to find a solace for my heart bereaved, Only to be forgotten by the God I once believed. Now, I serve this punishment, Under the ice condemned. For my loss of faith, To hell, I was damned. Downfallen in iniquity, Desolate, I'll be; My somber stare traverses sepulchers lonely. Eternally, my limbs sealed in place, Livid, and dead, I bow my face; The only shelter from the cold of the ninth circle of hell. To see what awaits in forever, A lifeless gaze, My final endeavor; I looked through the blackened skies, And beheld the radiance of paradise. My eyes have frozen in false sanctity. Eternally bound, my tears have turned to ice.

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 24, 2025

The once beautiful flower has withered and gone; It is memory's charnel vast, that I weepeth on. Lifeless, this lonely heart swoons 'neath my breast; For my tears bring you back, not from silent rest. Lamentation and woe, peace never shall I know; Blood less bitter be than these tears brackish with sorrow. Every promise ever born, now lay broken; False words are better left asleep, on thy lips, than spoken. With autumn's dirge, summer doth end, And dreams, like leaves, decay into the wind, Pallid, as the breath on which they blow, Is my heart, buried 'neath a solemn pall of snow. This ice holds not sanctum, nor reason For thy heart's swift change of season. With your dying, element and emotion unfold, And I, I'll live no longer, in this cold. Sadness, unlike love, is eternal.

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 24, 2025

Heaven weeps with my sorrow, Through the clouds veil of black lace. An infinity of angels Share the tearstreams I pour away. Within the storms of sadness I'll eternally remain. Love is lost forever; You are mourned by this rain. Ever weeping... Mine is the sorrow of angels...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025