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Malignant Tumour
04:25
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Smash the pain
Torn apart
I'm to suffer
From the start
Kills me now
Fucks me up
Stop it all
Make it stop
All will feel the wrath of this longing death
Suffer as I suffer, sacrifice your breath
Walk with me in hell, demons are your shadows
Pulled my strings puppet master, you will now stand tall
Lust to hear your screams, clamber for your blood
I know you're here to kill
Manifest as cancer, eating the body, devouring the soul, swallowing all
Destroying worlds, ruining lives, rotting the mind, slither and crawl
You can be beaten, I am more than you, account for my sixth sense, nothing you can do
Enduring research, fighting it all, called an act of god, miracle destined to fall
I force you to feel the wrath of this crushing death
Suffer as I suffered, I'll deprive you of your breath
Force you down to hell, I'll be your shadow
Pull your strings, puppet master, you will stand now tall
This is no act of your God
Restore your faith in me
This is no act from your lord below
Restore your faith in all
All will feel the wrath of this longing death
Suffer as I suffered, I'll deprive you of your breath
Walk with me in hell, demons are your shadows
Pulled my strings puppet master, I will now stand tall
Now you fear the wrath of this destructive death
Laughing as you suffer, you crave some more breath
Encase you down in hell, you are your own lonely shadow
Now you snapped your strings, you will never stand tall
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A relentless plane
Of unending solitude
Stretching out ahead
In every direction
Cities once built
Fell into ruin
A myriad of stone
Buried
Darkness embraces
An oft-mentioned legacy
Telling of strife
And violent insurrection
Spice trade and sand
Masquerading indiscretion
Desert immortalising
Those not strong enough
Headed by a house of
Noble indecency
A plot forged to annihilate
Opposition
Beneath the wilds
Obscured by degradation
An ancient empire
Long forgotten
Not seen by man
For countless generations
The once great halls
Since abandoned
This forsaken kingdom
Once a bastion of
Civilisation
Progress and knowledge
Now just a shadow
Engulfed by time
And swallowed by
Dunes eternal
Ancient remnants of this
Once thriving dominion
Sprawl for miles beneath
These god-forsaken sands
Legends are shared
By scholars and thieves
Buried in sand
Lost to time
A vast atrium
Replete with literature
Aeons of research
Disregarded
This once thriving
Athenaeum
A home of erudition
Over epochs neglected
Domicile of arcane secrets
And caliginous liturgy
That should not be known
Nor spoken by man
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Betwixt Strange Dreams
03:40
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The growing dark brings - nought but torment
Drawn back the veil reveals the ever-present vigil
From in the black vault - it stares intently
A message conveyed - bleak
The contents of which unknown
Forlorn and surely strange
Yet a message to convey there is
Slow and resentfully
Ichor embracing
Alien visions
Yet somehow aware
Drawn into obscure dreams
Another plane
Foreign but still
Familiar
Centred on a plateau betwixt dueling peaks
A marble colossus slumbers always
Spectral, I observed
The vision surpass dream
Once a shade, corporeal
What was ghostlike; made real
These unseen beings
Speak a foreign tongue
A language not yet heard
But one I understood
The speakers all foretell
The march of hellish fiends
Atop a tower I give watch
Where sleep dares crawl once more
Marble - Now replaced with mire
Plateau - Replaced with swamp
Dream - Leaves me in this place
Lost - Here without a way
To - Return from this dream
To - escape the encroaching dark
To - Reclaim my marble home
To - Awaken
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Bound and held aloft
Ropes tied by Bedouin hands
Borne swiftly ‘fore
Stowed upon seas of golden sands
Dragged atop citrine waves
Hands bound - eyes unseeing
Cords lashed around my chest
Lowered slowly into unforgiving darkness
Endlessly I descend
Further into the rough-hewn nether earth
Miles pass yet no respite
The narrow passage shredding the skin
Consciousness slips beyond me
Drifting between the real and the dream
This eldritch flight through Stygian space
Comes to an end
Journey ended - I awake in darkness
Tether laying slack behind me
Greeted by the bowels
Of some forsaken temple
Labyrinthine wandering
Horrors awakened yet not perceived
Guided by the scent of fetid air
My eyes not betraying the darkness
Lead by this detestable vapor
My embrace of a malign unknown
From beyond the unscalable pillars
Ceremonial chorus entices me on
The sound and smell coalesce
Intrigue guiding my steps
Faintly another sound rising in volume
Thousands marching in dismal unison
A procession of unnameable entities
Light from their torches, illuminating
As the horrors progress toward me
I enshroud myself in the shadow I fear
Lost once again in the darkness
Is this to be my fate?
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5. |
Inherent Malevolence
10:44
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We will awaken an unrepentant force
The seven gods of chaos
Our enemies will be destroyed and
All impurities erased
Expanding into the unknown, a dark cloud of unrivalled magnitude
Marred by uncountable souls, breathing a light into blackness
Alone in this realm with a blade-crossed meridian
Nothing but pinpricks on a map, no longer home
Of a vaporous trail, ersatz words put fore’
Promises of riches, gold and else-unknown
Leading down a path - more obscure with every turn
The voyage unseen by those who spoke of it
Endless abyss
Engulfing even light
Claustrophobic black
Void that swallows all
Light reflected rapid
From upon metallic boughs
Shaped being more than void-waste
Design is clearly known
Inscriptions scale it’s surface
Incisions the likes unborn
Of this mind’s indulgent elegance
Remote and abeyant
Tendrils lay dormant
Inside their cosmic tomb
These empty halls once teeming
Sent adrift in slumber
Acquiescence installed burning aeons before
The God-Priest slept, dethroned and enraged
The Opener of The Way, Daemon Sultan
The Great Dreamer’s sunken city torn asunder
The alignment of the stars, signalling awakening
Celestial grace shines upon the Stone of Dreaming
Tremors are felt as the shackles of slumber fade
All shall tremble ‘fore the might of the gods!
Inhale
The stench of release
Embrace
Torment
Eternal
Immutable
Agony
Paling
Humbled
The vastness
Overwhelming
Potent
Eruption
Containment
Breached
Cognizance restored
The being aware of my presence
The cataclysmic sepulcher - rended asunder
Hulking remnants screeching into the abyss
A schism torn by this fragmented astral grave
Leaves me adrift amongst the waves of the void
This ungodly embrace
Rending mind from flesh
Distorting corporeality
Dissolving sanity
His tomb - my own
As my consciousness
Is torn from my anima
Severed from my esse
I welcome the caress
Of this mighty demiurge
Who hast given me sight
To show me verity
So I may denounce
Mortal falsehoods
The illusions of man
And loosen the shackles of transience
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Destroy, raze, erase, eradicate
The lion’s head falls
The great house of the bull cast down
Onward - a march of unwriting and dismay
A decaying congregation - a putrescent-Mass relapsing
In their wake remaining - the shadows of an age negated
Only fragments for time to reclaim
The thirteenth tower crumbles
The necropolis defiled
Great sentinels, guardians of the gate of the wind - blind
A schism tore the halls of the citadel
The heart of the First Kingdom - ruptured
Bands of the hollow-way - displaced
Onward - a march of unwriting and dismay
A decaying congregation - a putrescent-mass relapsing
In their wake remaining - the shadows of an age negated
Only fragments for time to reclaim
These disciples progress forward
Consuming all that defies them
Sickness and heresy must be
Purged for our great salvation
Bringers of the end times
Unwavering in their faith
Reclaimers of the lost and astray
Guardians of divinity
Defilers of the unworthy
Redeemers of our sins and impurities
These disciples progress forward
Consuming all that defies them
Sickness and heresy must be
Purged for our great salvation
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Of a Starred Continuum
02:35
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Seeing no inscriptions
This eternal city bore
Not the fruit of civilisation
Not seen by eyes but mine
Deep within the dunes
This atrocity laid to rot
Unwholesome antiquity
deliberately lost
The unvocal place dripping
In the ghastly stillness of unending sleep
Swallowed by the sand
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die
Shunned so this city should be
Hours of waiting for the coming sunrise
Daring not to tread forth in the mirk
As Memnon hailed the mighty disk
I steeled myself to venture forth
In and out of shapeless housing
Mine vision drawn to a would-be temple
Wading further into shapeless darkness
My flame - my only eyes
Light cast on still-red stones
Swallowed by the sand
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die
Shunned so this city should be
Shifting through
Construct's darkness
Guided by
My fear
Flames lick the walls around me
Horror becomes tangible
Rushing wind felt from behind
Draws me down down inside
Endlessly descending
Times seemed to all but stop
Suddenly my feet hit earth
In a long dark chamber
Displayed on the walls were
The scales of long-lost man
Diminutive in stature
With shrapnel fangs
Wicked claws
The face invoked a hideous reality
History lost, sealed away, forgotten
Hundreds of these deceased demons
Encased by stone and lost in sand
Their strange reptilian features
Lit by an unknown light
As I examined through the glass
The glimmering scales ignite
Their ungodly tendrils now twitching
My sanity depletes
Being pulled toward the phosphor
I am eternal as I lie
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