I have long forgotten why
Why I admire the sky

The divine flow of the clouds
The moon's devoted shroud

Reminiscent of purity
This heavenly beauty

I now remember why
Why I admire the sky

For 'twas the day I caught your eye
But could not say hi

Servants of the Divine light
Tolerate morning, noon and night
Forgiveness sought for this might

Limitless power
Uncontrollable anger
Souls as wager

Half-dead corpses
Drawn are their last few breaths
Woeful yet meaningful deaths

Mangled bodies crawling in agony
Seeketh they,
Riddance from their misery

Thus our reason for being
Born from the darkness within

To souls wicked and poor alike,
Be it moments of war or peace
We offer release
By the sword and the pike

I've fallen again
All honor down the drain
Transcended by the ecstasy
The pleasure it offered to me

Reasoning gone in a whiff
Death slowly creeping on with each sniff
I can feel its breath down my neck
As I get closer to being a wreck

Indeed I am broken
The end is no longer an if but a when
You're to blame, yes, you friend
Coz you never even extended a helping hand

You heard not my silent cries of help
My torn soul's shouts and yelps
No one to hear, none of you near
I shed the very last tear

And I delved further down the darkness
To make up for this emptiness
And I found this addiction, my adulteress
That precious temptress, my only empress

A face scarred by chasmy
Your sweet and lethal enemy
Icy traits define her
Defiled by agony and anger

You made her believe in a fairytale
And left her to scream and wail
Till her throat bled
And dried were the tears she shed

So hard was the ache
Countless nights you kept her awake
She's lost her identity
Just another nameless entity

She's gone amiss
Engulfed by the abyss
Consumed from within
By a love she believed in...

Yours are those eyes
Cheeky yet wise

Through them, I saw your soul
That part of you, which makes me whole

Your little rabbit nose
And those rosy lips of yours

Get my senses in a swirl
And my confused thoughts in a whirl

Hey you! I'm pulling through
But I know it'd be a lot easier with you

So tell me, to-be better-half,
Would you care to share my path?

Merchant of bliss and freedom
The self-established axiom

Ruthless, she rules
Over those fools

Bewitched and entranced by her whoredom
She's something you cannot fathom

She is the need
The one for whom you'd bleed

She's carrion, damnation
She's Addiction

Calmness reigns in the forest
As the storm brews

The wind cleansing the taboos
Here goes the Devil's nest

The branches sway
The leaves dancing to this play

Nature's holy orchestra blows
A melody that soothes and flows

Beckoned, the drops fall
On the flora standing tall

Appeased is Gaia's blain
Soothed by the pellets of rain

I woke up this morning
With my eyes burning
And tears streaking

You were never mine
Yet, why, oh why do I pine?
Everything's gonna be just fine

That's the subject of my monologue
Since I was enchanted by you, mystagogue
It helps a little to pull through
In trying to get over you

Yes, I thought I was healed
But I'm lost in this wreckage
Unable to register the message
In your love's thorny field

I have understood
But this heart of mine
It does still whine
Its passion is too crude

Please, Maiden, don't misunderstand
I've tried to be the better man
And I wish you well
But more importantly, farewell
For I have sought refuge in Mnemosyne's den

Not a tune
That could make you swoon
No sign of any boon

Not a sound
That could turn time around
And not make you stound

No melody
That could let me be
And make you happy

Nothing
Twang of the string
Listen to this broken violin

A dying sun burns away
As the wind blows astray

Carrying a fulfilling loneliness,
The higher being's companion
Who seeks redemption
Finding nothing save everlasting emptiness

Shadowed by a darkness eternal
Plaguing the cursed immortal

Upon this hill
Overlooking their graves
The air above their tombstones so still
One of immortality's slaves

Evil sheathed in these veins
Bound by immortality's chains
Blood that simply won't clot
Flesh and bones which rot not

A wish left unfulfilled:
For the freedom I seeketh
Lies in naught but death

Prey of constant headaches
Countless thoughts overload this brain
Through those cells, a pain no pill can attenuate
Tearing at every tissue and membrane

A free soul, happy as a lark
Yet something I feel I do lack
That thing clouded, shrouded in black
Seeking it, this seemingly never-ending road I walk

Threatened by this epiphany
My state of mind darkens,
Questioning my damned existence
Irking the shadows fleeting through this silence

A measly little clue is what I need
A hint as to what lies beneath a shroud so opaque
My starving soul has started to crack
It will wither, fade, lest it's got that feed

My fears and doubts flow downstream
But I follow this path with the same dream
The journey continues with this vision
The very old outlook that goes beyond the horizon

The 7 deadly sins exist no longer
Defeated by one of their kin
6 of them were no longer seen
The message left by their reaper:

Pride's death was humiliating
Stripped of his arrogance, he went in hiding
It was almost too funny as his downfall was swift
And in a pool of his own blood, he floated adrift

Consumed by her desire for carnal love
That never-ending thirst of hers was her demise
With her pleasure moans and enticing cries
In the netherworld Lust found her alcove

His mouth full, Gluttony waddled around
Until his lecherous eyes suddenly popped out
Choking he thrashed and went to ground
Drooling for more, he fell prey to the hound

Sloth was dreadfully sleazy
Dispatching him to Hell was easy
Torn asunder in his lethargy so deep
He fell in that one never-ending sleep

Rage etched in his face
He fought, though futile, against my menace
And his severed head rolled down the path
So happened the murder of Wrath

Envy was family, my sister
We were kin and practically similar
But deeper ran rivalry and this is a fact
Dictated by my instincts, I ended her part in my act

Lording over many an aeon
Power and might are what I feed on
Synonymous to Avarice and Mammon,
I bear the name Greed
And killing is my creed

Treading down this soggy lane
Pins and needles prodding his foggy brain
This is not just another nightmare
For this is where he was stripped bare

Missing links in the memories flooding
The photographic kaleidoscope keeps on playing
Stringing together the hazy stills
Amnesia or side-effects of those pills?

Groggy, he walks with that swagger
Longing to steady for a breather
A chill creeping down his spine
Ruling the land of the blind

This strange voice in his head
Different from the usual threat
This looming menace aiming for the zenith
Tormenting the dormant that crawl beneath

This is a fragment of his visions,
His hallucinations, his schizophrenic conversations

Once again, the horn resounds
For the battlefield to be littered
With their mangled corpses and metal
Above which vultures hovered

Nicking at the pile of flesh lying around
Proud soldiers, torn from life
Brave warriors, victims of strife
Fallen to the hound

Fools with those antics, I hate
They are deserving of their fate
Lawless and heartless, we endeavor
For their era to be over

There won't be any survivor
Ruthless is our demeanor
Their defeat we'll savor
While they hope for a saviour

Our kind will rise
Turning the pages of history
Our kin will make you flee
Lest, you'll all be part of the killing spree

In matters of the heart I indulge not,
For mine was crushed and left to rot

By a Maiden who I admire
By that Lady who left me sinking in this quagmire

I cursed myself for loving her
My nemesis, the heart-slayer

Now, slumped in a corner
I'm awaiting the reaper

My wrists slashed, my limp body
I'm itching to cease to be

Noticing my reflection in the window pane
Seeing my face was blue

Like the blood running down the drain,
I was finally through!

Aimer hors de naiveté

Sans voir le reflet

Qui vous ensorcèlerait

Adorer à tout jamais

Elle qui vous a enivrés

Un coeur en fer

Et une flamme de passion

Une femme dans ce coeur

Et on ne connait plus la raison

"Mais qui a reveillé nos démons?"

Vos mémoires d'elle et vos larmes

Chaque goutte de l'averse

Est une lame qui vous transperce

Succombé à son charme

On devient sourd dans le vacarme

Aimer de tous ses sens

Jours et nuits

Mourir en silence

Un amour qui vous fuit

dont l'existence ne fût

Mais chaque jour on meurt satisfait

Sans arrière-pensée ni regret

En se disant: "Oui, j'ai aimé."

You can be the love of a punk

You, my little skunk

You're synonymous to my subutex

The haze at the apex

The ecstasy during sex

You've been my valium

That substitute of the pauper's rum

I'll keep on consuming you

Till your senses are so blurred

That your words get slurred

You're the neighbour's poppy seed

The bitch of no breed

Morphing you to cocaine and heroin

You'll satisfy my cravin'

I am what morphine is to pain

The endorphine injected in your brain

These hands, white with opium

The song of death, I hum

I am the merchant of pleasure

And you'll need me forever

For I possess all that you treasure

I believed I had a heart

Before we grew apart

It then felt like an aneurysm

With some unexplainable mechanism

Denying that I was forsaken

Not understanding that I was broken

I just went on

Not realising I couldn't hold on

My feelings gone rancid

My veins, a haven for acid

In my chest, shadows feast

Scary thoughts, dreamless sleep

Left in a forest so deep,

How can anyone not turn in a beast?

And so, I believe I no longer have a heart

Beneath my ribs, demons lurk

The aneurysm did its work

I am now a piece of art...

I can't keep on writing

I can't cope

The darkness is frightening

My fingers are trembling

Not from the dope

This is the end of the road

My mind is closing

My brain will soon stop functioning

Demons I don't wanna goad

Tearing at the endless hell below

Deepening the abyss

Annihilating all sorrow and woe

Creating a new nemesis

This is another genesis

I won't suffocate

Gotta wait for it to abate

Or leave it all to fate?

Stopped wondering what went amiss

No longer in stasis

Couldn't understand, still can't tell

Only one word: Farewell...

It's been so long

Covering these miles of deserted plains

Alone all along

Failing over and over again

To find someone to whom she'd belong

Wishing she could break free from sanity

Wanting to flee from this anomaly

Coz the other side is more tempting than this reality

She's still walking that desolate road

Her soles have run thin

Her feet tired from bleedin'

Ridding herself of that needless load

Feelings and strings in Life's bin

She's slipping away from sanity

Coz the other side is better than this reality

Yeah, she is breaking free

She is finally conversing with nature

Experiencing happiness and pleasure

This utopia is where she's found solace

It's her own little haven

Wiping off that last tear from her face

Slowing down her plasma's pace

And she falls in a haze

She has broken free

Ready to flee

Yes! This road she chose is insanity

Coz it's better than your reality