Her voice still calls to me

Like a distant dream

Buried ‘neath a

Thin veneer I scream

The decadence of “Love”

Took Her away

Her innocence was

Taken to the grave

Rid me of the fire

Burning deep within my soul

You scarred me with these wounds

And let your web of lies unfold

Give me back my passion

Your cold-blooded sacrifice

You raped Her of Her faith in life

And left Her strung to hang that night

Her jewelled eyes

Still glisten in the gloom

Moistened from Her

Begging mercy of you

When the pieces fell

Like shards of dripstone stalagmite

And your poisoned flock

Put to death my only light…

I renounce the love of Light

And the lies proclaimed

Your crusade is unjust

And “Love” is hate’s masquerade

I beg you, find me guilty

Of these occult “crimes”

And slay me in cold-blood

To be by Her side

The murmur of war upon the lips of fiends

Clandestine plots grown from subtle seeds

Blossomed into amorphophallusesque ignominy

Too late to turn back from its lethal reach

The tick-tock of the doomsday clock

Creeping ever closer to the final stop

Harbingers of death vaunt in utter delight

As mass fear and panic begin to spread worldwide

The incredulous urge us, “Come to the light!”

And as the darkest days roll out overhead

We mourn in silence upon our tragic end

This is not the final countdown we expected to face

Empires rise and Empires fool

All beneath in droves and even those who rule

Either readily or once consumed by greed

Self deceit appeals more than reality

With heavy heart and enervated sigh

We succumb to disquietude before the eternal night

Even the incessant Rapturephiles quieten down

In a reflective moment before certain death

We curse the antiquated past we were unable to shed

A flat finale for this series of unfortunate events

At the end of days as the fires rained down

And decimated ruins were left to smoulder

We watched it all burn, crashing down around us

Amidst the choking smoke and sulphurous odour

And I distinctly remember the last words, you asked:

“How did your temperament become so much colder?”

And my answer to you? To turn my back and walk away

From the apocalypse over my shoulder...

The clingers on steadily drop like flies

As we near the fiery, fissured finish line

A choir of whistling missiles bid us adieu

A thickening haze suffocates the world

Still we try to place blame whilst our brethren burn

This was not how we envisioned our own demise

Yet the thunder rumbles on without respite

Catastrophic repercussions erupt across fault lines

All bridges both figurative and literal burned

As time runs out and our fractured planet is hurled

Like a vexatious pest swatted from the universe

There is reasonable doubt our lesson was ever truly learnt...

Midnight chimes ring out again

Beckoning the twisted nightmares to descend

Upon me and deep into my mind

To prey upon stray rays of hope left dying inside...

My gothic heart cries to be set free

From darkness (my mistress), and her reverie

I yearn to feel pure rays upon my skin

To forget the brooding shadow brewing sin...

Somewhere I know you hold the key

The sacred prose, the words to set me free

Wolves cry unto the moon outside

Calling their brethren to take my life

Will you help bring about my demise

As they tear my flesh and feast on me tonight?

My gothic heart cries to be released

Before darkness reaches out her hand to me

Will she take me deep into the night

To forget the love, the torch that burnt so bright?

Too dangerous to keep

Too feeble to let go

And you want to bite the hand

Should have stopped this long ago

Go now, you've been set free

Another month or so you'll be gorging on me

With your lovely smile

I see you slither away with your skin and your scales

Your flickering tongue and your rattling tail

Like a real reptile

Had you coiled around my arm

How could you ever know

How I loved your Autumnal eyes?

But that was long ago

Go now, you've been set free

Another month or so you'll be poisoning me

With your lovely smile

I see you slither away with your skin and your scales

Your flickering tongue and your rattling tail

Like a real reptile

And I should have believed Eve

When she said we had to go

She was the apple of my eye

It wasn't long ago

With moonlight as the only guide

We wander side by side

The silence growing deafening

I dare not catch your eye

The bluish hues surround us

Casting shadows on our shame

To mask our true expressions…

Our journey has led us this far

Into the murky dark unknown

Casting out the doubts, we hide

Together, never more alone

Despite our best intentions

Every effort remains in vain

All the trampled, jagged pieces

Can never fit back together again

Time rolls ever on regardless of

The shards left in our open wounds

Winding on through all the noise

And the silent ones gone far too soon

Memories left, fading away

A cruel mockery this mortal game

So claim a draw whilst it’s there to breathe

Then bury the regrets with the rest of me

But until that day dawns it’s final rays

We will close that tome on an empty page

With moonlight as the only guide

We wander side by side

The silence growing deafening

I dare not catch your eye

The bluish hues surround us

Casting shadows on our shame

To mask our true expressions:

Empty, shallow, grave

We continue upon this path

The far less travelled road

Passing by the warning signs, still blind

To the destination unknown

In spite of our best efforts

The outcome remains the same

All the fractured, jagged pieces

Left in the wake of our mistakes...

So little left, traded away

For a handful of scars, ancient runes

Yet we still convince ourselves in the dead of the night

All the lies that we wish would come true

The brooding moonlight’s soothing light

A spotlight on the scene

Of the long dark night of the soulless

Succumbing to the need

The prose tinted glasses shattered

Revealing the endgame

Expressionless we walk away

Empty, shallow, grave

Every dead end diverted

Still the sequence remains unbreached

Passing by our past mistakes and ties

All our vanquished hopes and dreams…

Despite our best intentions

Every effort remains in vain

All the trampled, jagged pieces

Can never fit back together again

In spite of our best efforts

The outcome remains the same

All the fractured, jagged pieces

Left in the wake of our mistakes...

Candles flicker guiding me

Through the rusted iron gates

Licking in the soaring winds

Dancing with enchanting grace

The ground beneath my feet heaves

Shifting, rifting, splayed

As I move along the undead throng

Beneath me in their graves

I see glimpses of them

From their monoliths and tombs

Their claws grate heavily against

The ancient marbled ruins

I hear their sinister laughter

Echo through the starlit night

I see their shifting shapes and shadows

Sweeping through the isles

Creeping through the cemetery

Passing by the burial mounds

The wind carries ghastly laments

Whispering their depraved sounds

Peering through the cobwebs

And the twisted branches of the trees

Stumbling across the demonic rites

On the night of a Samhain feast

Scaled Sins tear at my skin

Passing me through many hands

Taking me and taunting me

Preparing their torturous plans

Skulls litter their lair

Alongside rats and broken bones

No matter how loud my screams resound

I cannot surpass their moans

The candles are snuffed at once

With a final tempestuous blow

They clamber with their cobwebbed toes

Into their abode below

Sacrificed to Devils

I see their festive fires light

Frightening figures of fervent Evil

Ushering my demise

Congregated Demons

With red eyes stare right through me

Chanting dark and twisted words

At I, the Samhain feast...

...I, the Samhain feast!

It is never far away

That stalking, ever creeping dread

Embodied by the venomous

Cretinous shadow which lies in wait...

Peer into my eyes and ponder

What goes on inside my mind

How the cogs whir counterclockwise

And lines are crossed, borders intertwined

Where truth meets with pure malice

My warped reality gestates

Forgoing fact for fallacy

The difference soon dissipates

The rumour mill keeps churning

Rotting from inside

Listening intently

For the bavardage it seeks

They’ll never learn

Or see through the disguise

Lapping up all falsities

The truth despoiler speaks

It feeds upon attention

That fiendish force of malevolence

Engorging itself on tension

It is he who tugs upon the thread...

Hear me now willing fodder

As I lay this long, plotted path of lies

A trail that winds deep into the trees

With the forest lost to those inside

Wherein truth becomes obsolete

My deceit is free to manifest

Befouling all fact with fallacy

For those ensnared within to ingest

Don’t… look… into… its eyes

Don’t… believe… the fables… the lies

Watch... out… for the web… it weaves

Choke it... deny it… the putrid air… it breathes...