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Empire


This land of dust,
these feilds of filth
were once a grand place.
An empire of
unimaginable wealth.
But now my eyes can see.
Love's blindfold has been lifted.
My heart has been shattered.
What have I become?
The sands of time
slip in the cracks
of my fist.
Everyone I know
goes away in the end.
Put not your faith in me,
I will only let you down.
My mind is full
with fractured thoughts.
Lies of the mother,
and sins of the father
plague my soul.
In the darkness
the faces laugh.
Toothed grins,
faded faces.
The abyss calls my name.
I fall into the darkness,
my crown is shattered
and my thrown desecrated.
My empire
it has fallen.
I have fallen.
The ashes that remain
are nothing to me now.
I weep for my people,
my tears spill
into the stream.
Destruction
Desolation
Desire
Death
These drive our world.
Fear in the eyes of children.
Walls of our great cities
crumpled like sheets of paper.
Our whole world is
fragile like glass.
Why must we
kill all of our own kind?
Fire burns the witless child.
White hot shards peirce
the womb.
Toppled, defeated,
You can have my empire of ash...
reign over the land of the dead.
Death has no more business here...
no life remains.
My meager existance stands not
among the living.
I am a walking corpse...
a mistake.
My tongue is as ash,
the food of my lands tastes
of dust. The waters
are rust.
Living things burned alive,
for pleasure,
their pain.
Agony is mine.
I am the ruler
of this desolate land.

The Feast



This is the feast
of the Dark Ones.
The children of the night,
they call to you.
Your blood boils
at their beckoning.
Dark embrace,
take me away!
From this land of
flesh and bone!
Take me
to that place
where men
die no more.
Beasts stalk in the night.
This is man's world
no longer.
Shoved aside,
all he can do
is to cower in fear
as he watches,
eyes wide and white,
like the moon in full disk,
as his kind is taken.
Food for the lords of the night.
His blood screams
from the earth,
Spilled by man and beast alike.
Man's end is here,
in their eyes you can find the fear.
Now is the time of the feast,
the power of the beast.

Before the gods destroy us, before Ragnarok is thought of, before fire or water, before the four horsemen, it will be man that ends the world.

Well... you're ALL WRONG... Christophe was closest... but I'M gonna destroy the planet. Flee before me foolish mortals!!! I AM THE THING THAT LURKS IN THE NIGHT... THAT THING THAT FOLLOWS YOU AND WHEN YOU TURN AROUND, NOTHING'S THERE... I AM THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET, THE SHADOW IN THE NIGHT... I AM THE THING THAT DWELLS UNDER THE BED... I AM THE THING THAT LURKS IN THE NIGHT!

((I really want a title for this one guys... I need your help!!!))



White hot it rains
drops of mercury.
Everything dies in this
fiery rain.
Blood runs in the streets
and our noble leaders
grin in their bath of blood.
The Lord of War has come!
Behold Aeres, how he bows before him!
Behold Mars!
Behold Tyr!
Behold Chi You!
Behold Guandi!
Behold Kuan-Ti!
BEHOLD ALL OF YOU!
The Master has come!
On one knee they all fall.
They dare not raise their heads
against the beast before them!
The beast has risen!
The beast is man.

Very interesting... I'll take those into consideration... and yes, I know about Tyr... I looked him up. Along with the rest of these names I've used... of course, I already knew Mars, Aeres, and Kuan-Ti.

Well, one good name for that poem could be "The Ideal of War" or "War's Delusion". Either of those would fit well in my mind. I really like all of your poems, by the way, they are quite beautiful.