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Maple
07:41
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I’ve languished in a mausoleum
of memories beneath the moss
The bitter soil where we rest
has drained away the glow of flesh
Lead me into my suffering
Hollow me with your burning gaze
Leave me here to fade in the gloom
& then depart in silent rain
Your memory opened me
I slowly tore apart my wilted skin
The melody, like a funeral knell,
of your laughter lacerated me
Our epitaphs faded long ago
The ghost of me wanders endlessly
Shattered tombstones, blossoming woe
I can hardly recognize you
Every word is a shackle
Every moment is a scar
Every promise lies in ash
Six stitches became the mark of fangs
A maw flowed cardinal streams
Your aroma of maple, sweet,
still haunts this lifeless place
still haunts this lifeless place
still haunts this lifeless place…
Here beneath this moss & ruin
I rot in solitude
I’ve become the negative space
in a starless tapestry
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The Carrion Shade
09:25
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Black sun, black moon
In shadows, entombed
Flame, gold, & rust
slowly coalesced
in the pale of the
last winter sunset
Resplendent arc of the twilight
glowed & burned
in gaps of the
snow-draped boughs
There in the umbra
of skeletal pines,
blood of the matriarch
married the ice
As silence was marred
by wolf & wind howl,
tendrils of red ivy
bloomed in the wounds
A nightside portal lined
with rows of trembling flame
Your sea of dusk so brilliantly alight
I contemplated upon
sere branches of the tree,
while the progenitor tore jaws through me
As shades of carrion birds drank deep
from a basin of mirrors…
Torchbearers dripped their blaze
into the cold void below
Black sun, black moon
In shadows, entombed
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Nightmarrow
09:34
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Lost in a labyrinth
of neon & steel,
of wan, faceless beings
in dark smog—concealed
Specters all cloaked in wilt
They lurk beneath the glow
They kiss our pale blue lips
They bloom in pestilence
Sludge seeps from open veins
& cracks of black mirrors
How long until we drown
in a toxic deluge?
How long until our cities
become our tombs?
Miasmic mist rises
from shadowed spires
to choke the skies
& banish the amber dawn
Will our cries forever
echo in rustling leaves?
Or will they be lost
to a silent finality?
Frozen feathers flow
from the wind-swept boughs,
cascading through our dreams
to the nightmarrow
As our lifeblood
turns to ash…
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Rustling Leaves
01:45
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5. |
Black Crystal Snowfall
10:57
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Ancestral whispers beckon us back
to a starless womb, to a time before
this place where all is languishing,
where all is ensnared by the grasp
of synthetic hands, becoming,
and ripping our bones from within
Hold your spine before your eyes
& feel how brittle it always was
Watch as it crumbles to dust
from the pressure of a bleak reality
Hear the song of moth wings rise
to the hum of the neon nightglow
Breathe the wind-swept chill of streets,
shudder like the tremble of a dying flame
Fade away in dereliction
like moth-torn pages of a lost tome
Drink the shade of memories
like azaleas in this ruinous landscape
We are the crystals of snow,
submerged and forsaken
in a black, viscous liquid
seeping from scarred earth
We are the crystals of snow
encased in a black gem
of obsidian glass—
for now & forevermore
When we have stripped away
the prison of our flesh
We will gaze upon the
featureless black
When the heart comes to still,
the nexus will burn,
as dawnlight abounds
in our slow decay
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Umbra
03:40
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Hypnotic Dirge Records Esquimalt, British Columbia
Hypnotic Dirge Records is an independent record label and webshop based in Esquimalt, Canada active since 2008. Our intention and raison d'être is to release quality expressive and eclectic art through aural manifestations.
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