max-southwood - Hello Poetry

Days pass by Monotonous Black and white Life happens all around But never to me World experienced Through waking coma Nervous system weak All feeling almost gone Until I look back Through old notebooks Re-experience trace memories Of who I once was Who I used to be And maybe still am Reading these old writings I feel more of my old self slip away But I smile For it means I’m still here

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Jan 3, 2021

Jan 3, 2021 at 5:20 PM UTC

I’m Still Here

Days pass by Monotonous Black and white Life happens all around But never to me World experienced Through waking coma Nervous system weak All feeling almost gone Until I look back Through old notebooks Re-experience trace memories Of who I once was Who I used to be And maybe still am Reading these old writings I feel more of my old self slip away But I smile For it means I’m still here

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You sit awake at 5 AM Unable to sleep from the heat A mind burdened by desire and ambition Blurry dreams that are out of focus Impossible to see for the eyes that have lost their vision Out of touch from the heart beat slowing down You’d mourn the loss of your being But tears can’t heal the dying And pain, no matter how brilliant, can’t bring back the dead You climb back into your coffin Next to your fellow corpse in the bed of hope And you realize Sometimes it’s better to let it die

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Aug 9, 2020

Aug 9, 2020 at 2:37 PM UTC

Let It Die

You sit awake at 5 AM Unable to sleep from the heat A mind burdened by desire and ambition Blurry dreams that are out of focus Impossible to see for the eyes that have lost their vision Out of touch from the heart beat slowing down You’d mourn the loss of your being But tears can’t heal the dying And pain, no matter how brilliant, can’t bring back the dead You climb back into your coffin Next to your fellow corpse in the bed of hope And you realize Sometimes it’s better to let it die

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Birthed from the mire Of pyroclastic grey Entropy reigns supreme Cracks in creation Beckon the thaw Veins of inferno clean Ashen rains bury the land Show where life has once been Swallow all life Diminish all light This is the end of all things

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Dec 5, 2019

Dec 5, 2019 at 7:44 AM UTC

Pyroclasts

Birthed from the mire Of pyroclastic grey Entropy reigns supreme Cracks in creation Beckon the thaw Veins of inferno clean Ashen rains bury the land Show where life has once been Swallow all life Diminish all light This is the end of all things

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When the sun has gone to sleep And ghosts have had their time to creep Imps and goblins awaken to Do the things that monsters do

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Jan 15, 2019

Jan 15, 2019 at 2:04 AM UTC

Monster Planet

When the sun has gone to sleep And ghosts have had their time to creep Imps and goblins awaken to Do the things that monsters do

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Breath escapes from failing lungs Withheld and yet withdrawn Spirit ascends from hollow body Leaving husk behind The breaking of cosmic chains Disguised as extinction of the flesh Essence drifts through ether Lost amongst the wonders of creation Untethered traveler Escaping the disgrace of dying stars Relinquished life Acquired release Liberation of the body Immunity of the spirit Elevation of the mind Alleviation of torment

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Apr 21, 2018

Apr 21, 2018 at 2:52 PM UTC

Cosmic Transmigration

Breath escapes from failing lungs Withheld and yet withdrawn Spirit ascends from hollow body Leaving husk behind The breaking of cosmic chains Disguised as extinction of the flesh Essence drifts through ether Lost amongst the wonders of creation Untethered traveler Escaping the disgrace of dying stars Relinquished life Acquired release Liberation of the body Immunity of the spirit Elevation of the mind Alleviation of torment

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Through boundless eons of black chasms of time Stygian waters have hidden a secret dark For something lurks far beyond the threshold of ocean and sky Something swims deep down in the dark heart of Adam's Ale It's hulking mass creeps through the ages with crystalline eyes Always searching, always waiting Through vast, vacuous gloom and murky brine Yellow-emerald light signals the arrival of the Gaping Void Lighteater, Purveyor of Doom with voidmight abound Cosmic sustenance; celestial bodies on which he will feed An alignment of dead stars will beckon the ascent A new age of perfect midnight will begin And there will be a terrible reckoning When terror rises from the deep

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Oct 30, 2017

Oct 30, 2017 at 5:36 AM UTC

Terror Rises from the Deep

Through boundless eons of black chasms of time Stygian waters have hidden a secret dark For something lurks far beyond the threshold of ocean and sky Something swims deep down in the dark heart of Adam's Ale It's hulking mass creeps through the ages with crystalline eyes Always searching, always waiting Through vast, vacuous gloom and murky brine Yellow-emerald light signals the arrival of the Gaping Void Lighteater, Purveyor of Doom with voidmight abound Cosmic sustenance; celestial bodies on which he will feed An alignment of dead stars will beckon the ascent A new age of perfect midnight will begin And there will be a terrible reckoning When terror rises from the deep

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By early mornings light Shadows disperse Run for cover to the dark roots Subterranean refuge Safety in the cold earth Mother Nature’s bedrock womb Necrosis of light gestates Rests its weary, starless mind Gloom retires, lies in wait Twilight beckons the return

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Oct 8, 2017

Oct 8, 2017 at 5:33 PM UTC

Somber Divide

By early mornings light Shadows disperse Run for cover to the dark roots Subterranean refuge Safety in the cold earth Mother Nature’s bedrock womb Necrosis of light gestates Rests its weary, starless mind Gloom retires, lies in wait Twilight beckons the return

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Draining pools of blackened filth Tiny pockets amass An ocean of sludge to horizons end Stone heart is cast away Descends to the bottom New blood bursts forth Seeps into empty spaces Mortar for the soul In this wounded way Ascend to begin again

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Aug 14, 2017

Aug 14, 2017 at 12:13 AM UTC

Metempsychosis: New Blood Bursts Forth

Draining pools of blackened filth Tiny pockets amass An ocean of sludge to horizons end Stone heart is cast away Descends to the bottom New blood bursts forth Seeps into empty spaces Mortar for the soul In this wounded way Ascend to begin again

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In darkest forests where magic hides In deepest oceans with stranger tides In vast canyons where the eagle flies Exists a love that never dies Through dense fogs and cloudy skies Burns a fire that shines so bright And in that light I see your eyes Where our love could never die In these forests we'll reside In the oceans we'll own the tide On the backs of eagles we will fly To these lands, where love never dies In these lands we will reside I will be yours and you'll be mine I will love you till the end of all time And our love will never die

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Aug 11, 2017

Aug 11, 2017 at 10:29 PM UTC

To One So Far Away

In darkest forests where magic hides In deepest oceans with stranger tides In vast canyons where the eagle flies Exists a love that never dies Through dense fogs and cloudy skies Burns a fire that shines so bright And in that light I see your eyes Where our love could never die In these forests we'll reside In the oceans we'll own the tide On the backs of eagles we will fly To these lands, where love never dies In these lands we will reside I will be yours and you'll be mine I will love you till the end of all time And our love will never die

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Feel the burn of desire scorch your insides Feel the warmth from the spilling of seed My darkness is deep within you Setting out on this campaign of lust, Our bodies tangle, indulging in the pleasure of the flesh Eat me up, swallow me whole, As I fill myself with you We are ouroboros

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Jun 2, 2017

Jun 2, 2017 at 10:42 PM UTC

NecRomantic Sadism

Feel the burn of desire scorch your insides Feel the warmth from the spilling of seed My darkness is deep within you Setting out on this campaign of lust, Our bodies tangle, indulging in the pleasure of the flesh Eat me up, swallow me whole, As I fill myself with you We are ouroboros

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