A little romanticism?

[PlatypusJesus]

Time Lost Requiem

A mental mantle
Displaying all the thoughts that never were to be
Liquid sorrow trickles down your cheek
Life means nothing
Remembrance is burned in a grave of decay
What’s the relevance
When all that awaits is death?

A brick wall
Each brick laid in simple order
But ambivalence must intervene
As the color on one fades
A crack forms on another
And a hole peeps through the other side
Then ruin lays down its wrinkled hand
It slowly crumbles

It would be easy
To take it all away
So many ways
The Light in the Lamp flickers
A wave crashes on a lonely bay
What is left of your sanity?
Drained into the fog of yesterday
Dreams died long ago
Ambitions melted like ice on sand
Just an echo on your shoulder

The window bled dry
A rock thrown through
It shattered like your will
The shards fell to the floor
They cut the telephone line
All connections faded
No more hope is left
In the frail sparks

Severed sidewalks weep
Their only purpose
To be traversed
Their tears pour onto a riverside
And onto a garden of ashes
Everything that attempted to grow here
Fell victim to the agony of damnation
For where there is death below
There is death above
Open the shell wide
Locusts swarm

Languid poison
Suicide wrought into the mind
The thoughtless plague
Lacerate the film around your eyes
There’s so much here worth seeing
So much here worth being
Find your niche
In the insipid spectrum of the gravel road
Before it’s too late
Let go now

The past is so bright
Blinding pretension
The future holds no desire
Exhausting isolation
Acoustics blur to static
Dawn awakens the rising burn
Blood drips down your neck
The human that was there before
Has now lost to carnal madness
A feather glides to your nose
Pale and cold

Welcome dear
Grab yourself a chair
I haven’t seen your face for so long
You’ve grown haggard and worn
While I’ve been gone
Was there nothing left for you to find
Could I be the only one?
I remember you vividly now

You took it all away
Just to hold me
But the past withered
With the black rose of the mist
And times have changed
Life went on
When I left your side
You have become a memory
Leaking sweet passion
I would love to drink
But I have no emotions left for you

Confusion Illusion

How can love so tender
Be smothered into a cinder?
How can a stone so strong
Be broken by a human hand?
Why do I feel this pain
When there’s nothing here to gain?
Why do I wilt bleakly
When there’s so much here to hold?
Can you see the growing tear
Ready to drown the world in fear?

I don’t want to know
I don’t want to feel
Lethargy anymore

Secluded is how I’ve always been
If I find you now
How do I grasp the time?
If I touch you now
How do I not cry?

What if it suddenly becomes a sham
And the fervor turns to sand?
How do I live?
Not like this again
Once I’m gone
I can’t return
Once I’m in your arms
I can’t just walk away

What if we grow old together
And watch each other rot?
The woman I once knew
Frowns a simple “I love you”

Look into my eyes
There’s so much knowledge here
Enraptured by false experience
Who else has seen my vision
Of indecision?

I can’t do this
I can’t change this
To unlock this door
Would be to unmask a black hole
I’ve seen the results
I’ve imagined the damage
The image has been rendered
The thoughts have been considered
The human you see before you
Would be nothing without desolation
Everything would change
Everything would die
But what if the blossom that is born
Is better than the chasm that has been sown?

I want you so much
Haven’t you noticed
When you smile I shine?
But you are not I
A thousand miles apart
So what if the kiss contains
Only disdain

A raven in a flock of doves
Yet no one has ever realized I’m there
Who am I anyway?
A poet in a world so selfish

While they run their games
Lives are played
And when they end their games
Lives are slain
How can it be escaped?
Is this different?
Is this real?
How can I tell?
If my strings detach
There is no latch

I confess nothing here to you
Just give you a glimpse into my heart
Have you ever swum in an ocean so free?
Have you ever been to the numb depths of the sea?
How much have you read into me?
Have you figured it all out?
This mystery of grandeur
Closed in splendor
Hopeless lies
Boundless ties
Does any of it stare at you
Like a blackened enemy?
Can you touch the golden thread
Connecting your mind to mine?
Have you ever seen the train grind by
In the blink of an eye?
Have you ever seen the abyss within
Through the forced laugh?
Have you truly seen the difference I hold?
A benign innocence fighting in the cold
I need shelter with someone
For I can’t last much longer out here alone

 

[PlatypusJesus]

lalalala

 

[FretsAflame]

The lyrics for one of my songs - Dejection and Solace

Dejection and Solace

Seek Solace now in your mind; Dejection comes far too soon,
Burn twilight for your kind, follow the wanton moon.
Existence is pointless, yet have you lost all hope?
Forgiveness is heaven sent, a gift that will never come
A Faint reverie is uttered now,
Without sight of the end,

A solace burned in my soul, dejected by the one I know,
Lost being forever rent, by the teachings of another man.
Blank visage a grim reminder, memories of the die I cast,
Regretful event replayed without count, the actions of the damned.

Altered vision I suffer, voices reach from my outstretched hand.
Reverted mind torture, vindictive thought my prison cell.
Disenchanted by the light, scarred the tissue of my eyes,
Fingers point inside my heart, to chastise the lies within,
Sick voices cry out in vain, defiled once again.

When will it end? When will I be forgiven?
Purge my sins with mute cries, dignify this solace.
When will it end? When will I be forgiven?
Ripping pain of what I have done, burning thought my solace.

Revealed for what I am, murderer of beauty,
Condemned to torment, cursed to a life without faith.
Reviled and loathed, shunned for my deeds,
Your rightful malediction screams through my ears,
Threefold for the lacerations,
Tenfold for the mutilations

A solace burned in my soul, dejected by the one I know,
Lost being forever rent, by the teachings of another man.
Blank visage a grim reminder, memories of the die I cast,
Regretful event replayed without count, the actions of the damned.

Immolated,
Punishment given where punishment’s due.
Through dripping flesh forgiveness is sought,
Evasion of trust is what you have wrought.
Consoled by flame, Heart strings sing,
Accompanied by the hissing choirs of blood.
Anathema,
Damned to eternal existential dismay,
Haunting visions of tumultuous past,
Bring only pain and suffering.
There is no solace, no redemption.
Burn in the fire of your consequence.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

Awesome.

 

[FretsAflame]

why thank you - want some more?

 

[PlatypusJesus]

If you do not mind.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

 

[FretsAflame]

Alright - pretty much everything i post after this are works in progress

 

[FretsAflame]

A fallen prophet’s star, burns fade away,
Scars blister on my heart, as time turns to grey.
Without absolution, I hide my face,
Corrupted this soul abyss, I deny your grace.

Yet pain leaves, when I bring what I seek,
Repentance alone shall deliver the weak.
Their Ivory towers torn by my reprise,
The actions one such as you could never surmise.

Fallen, forced down by their tryst,
Rapture unfolding beneath a deities gaze,
Sweet Life, ripped from my embrace.
Without love life is lost, I fade into the mist.

Feel this nihilistic wrath, witness vicious bloodbath,
Feed off of cries from desperate faces,
Defleshed.
Virulent will to reap destruction, evisceration of corruption,
Bloodshot eyes stare from my hand,
Enucleated.

My faith in shadow, I draw purposeless breath.
Emergence of scars, caused by memories remitted,
Please God tell me what sins I committed,
My wish is to not exist, I beg for death.

Yet pain leaves, when I bring what I seek,
Repentance alone shall deliver the weak.
Their Ivory towers torn by my reprise,
The actions one such as you could never surmise.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

I like the first stanza.

 

[FretsAflame]

a thank you like i said though, works in progress - need major crafting (I am quite fond of dejection and solace though, that one worked out really well both lyrically and instrumentally)

see how you feel about this one - i did it yesterday, saved it, and left - so it's a first draft, but it came off pretty smooth.

Necrosis

Arrested breathing, fate concealing,
Destined to die and now is my time.
Velvet shades lifted away,
Realization of condemnation – and so I die.

Mortal flesh fails me, entrails whither,
The word of Man – a vicious deceiver,
This fault of my flesh, failure of design,
Condemned to end – and so I die.

Spinning in recollection,
Failing sight finds no salvation,
Final flash, as the neurons trigger,
Synaptic reaction.
Cellular death, my heart stops beating,
Veins rupture, my eyes cry – bleeding,
Final breath drawn by lungs now rotted,
Infested flesh becomes a carcass.

Mortal flesh fails me, entrails whither,
The word of Man – a vicious deceiver,
This fault of my flesh, failure of design,
Condemned to end – and so I die.

Malevolence spread as though by injection,
Seething hate a burning infection,
Willed to cease, life ripped away,
Forced to rot, dwell in decay.

A noxious toxin to inhale, this human will to prevail,
A rash, a ravage, a scourge,
A pestilence.
A plague of corruption, morbid contagion,
Necrotic spread obsessed with death.

Spinning in recollection,
Failing sight finds no salvation,
Final flash, as the neurons trigger,
Synaptic reaction.
Cellular death, my heart stops beating,
Veins rupture, my eyes cry – bleeding,
Final breath drawn by lungs now rotted,
Infested flesh becomes a carcass.
A symbol of blight.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

Not bad....and a few lines dedicated to Nevermore.

 

[metal17]

Shy

[Tony Kakko]

I Can see how you are beautifull, can you feel my eyes on you,
I'm shy and turn my head away
Working late in diner Citylite, I see that you get home alright
Make sure that you can't see me, hoping you will see me

Sometimes I'm Wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana, can you?
I see you in Citylite diner serving all those meals and then
I see reflection of me in your eye, oh please

Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see

Obsessed by you, your looks, well, anyway "I would any day die for you",
I write on paper & erased away
Still I sit in diner Citylite, drinking coffee and reading lies
Turn my head and I can see you, could that really be you

Sometimes I'm wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana?
I see your beautifull smile and I would like to run away from
Reflections of me in your eyes, oh please

Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy can't you see

I see, can't have you, can't leave you there 'cos I must sometimes see you
But I don't understand how you can keep me in chains
And every waken hour, I feel your taking power From me and I can't leave
Repeating the scener over again

Sometimes I'm wondering why you look me and you blink your eye
You can't be acting like my Dana
I see your beautifull smile and I would like to run away from
Reflections of me in your eyes, oh please

Talk to me, show some pity
You touch me in many, many ways
But I'm shy, can't you see

 

[PlatypusJesus]

Though you have completely shifted this thread away from the romanticism that it started out containing.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

Though my first poem wasn't really romantic. So...I'm a little guilty myself.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

In fact...I guess I should have just named this thread "A little halfway romanticism?"

 

[PlatypusJesus]

Whoa...sorry metal17, I completely missed your poem (lyrics?). Not bad....more straightforward then what I'm used to, but there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[FretsAflame]

This one could turn into something quite nice with a little bit of work...

Buried hope beneath these black eyes,
Virtue in my suicide.
Unrequited love’s emotion dies,
My heart is rent, nowhere to confide.

Lost in death as long as I remember,
Fleeting lies only serve to dismember.
Bleeding retch from this mournful discourse,
Killing you to find my remorse.

Willed to toil in the soil, stifling my despondent cries,
Sweet release will never come.
To look into the sky, if so with sightless eyes,
I speak these hollow words,
‘I love you…’

 

[FretsAflame]

Not bad....and a few lines dedicated to Nevermore.

Different concept - similar words, no real connection

more along the lines of the frailty of man and susceptability to diseased thought

wait, that's almost exactly like the fault of the flesh...

shit.

 

[unknown]

1-10-1
(written in syllabic form)

Love
Controls
All of me
I find Myself
Wanting you each day
I long for your sweet taste
I crave your divine nectar
I reach for you, but you're not there
An insatiable appetite
Is it wrong to be infatuated?
A rose's scent pales compared to your's
Heaven on earth is in your heart
Join me in oblivion
We'll make the gods jealous
Alone in our world
Words cannot describe
Why it is
I love
You