Toralf
Atemberaubend, emotional mitreißend, wunderschön, heavy!
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Death, Deliver Us
06:57
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DEATH, DELIVER US
Please god. calm the billows
Threading through weeks of turbulent waters
With a hold full of soil and sand
A creature
Rests among us
As the waves keep beating
Fiercely against the hull
Any port in a storm
No sign of god he deserted us.
Searched from stem to stern
And one more gone
And in their wake
A misty dance unfolds
As the veils of fog
Trace the ill fated journey
Whispers
To the heavens
There’s times they worked - This time they won’t
We’re all joining in silent departure
Honoring his post
Lashing himself to the wheel
With the help of his teeth
Looking for solace
Yet solace can’t be found
At mercy of the waves
Commandeering the helm
A siren's lullaby
Fearing for his soul.
Where no soul can be found
Come good wind or foul
I shall save my soul
And my honour as a captain
I’m growing weaker the night is coming on
She must fetch up somewhere, if only it was in hell
Screams from the land to the ocean - looking
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
Still it echoes from their wet graves
Oh death
Yes death
Deliver us
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Currents
05:47
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CURRENTS
Night wanes
Morrow ignites
A crystal whisper
Emerges from stony dephts
Where silence reigns
This cavernous mountain
Life, chasing its destiny, descending
A thread of silver dreaming of oceans yet unseen
A quenching thirst
A furious torrent
Carving canyons
Where mountains once stood
Flowing hunger
Ever wide
Its’ will aglow
Cascading and winding on its’ decline
Rushing and roaring, laying waste, tumbling into bottomless depths
Tempered by distance
The torrent calms
Bearing witness
Two shadows cast
Carrying woes
Voices raised high
A strike and silence filled the sky
The paths diverge atop the water
A breathless journey carries on
Currents - Yet lifebloods’ pulse never seizes
Born of whispers mountains alone could breathe
Tracing a path etched by the very flow of time
Yield to the ocean's vast embrace
merge into one
merge into one
Flowing far to meet the sun
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Haven
03:26
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HAVEN
Spectral voices, ethereal whispers,
A celestial beacon
Escaping the city for a haven
To be unburdened
Without words to divide
Shared wisdom blooms
Worn souls seeking refuge
In absence of words
This valley harbors silence in perpetual twilight
A soft shimmering quietude
Strange shadows dance beneath the surface
Of deep waters covering the land
A primal urge draws me deeper
Never contemplating a return
A touch on the arm speaks volumes
Drawn to this silent symphony
Silence transcends words
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Slow Winds
05:54
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SLOW WINDS
Waning light
Shadows grow longer
Colours melt into grey
Shapes dissolve
Into a haze
Barely visible inbetween
Debris and boulders
A narrow path
Winds its way uphill
Crippled storm-whipped trees
Become sparse and disappear
Looking back
No more signs of life
In the valley below
As if there never was
Almost utter silence
Only distant howling
Slow winds
Wisps of clouds
Drift across
The pale disc of the moon
Now and then
The veils part
For an elusive glimpse
At faint stars
Transcending
The nocturnal firmament
Like gleaming pulses
Witnessing and observing
As for eons they have
When will they find out
Where will they search
Where will I be
Will the winds whisper what happened?
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Consumed
07:18
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CONSUMED
Walking through blood
Bewildered, yet unfazed
Towards a shattered mirror
Laughing all the while
Like kindling to the blaze
Consumed by an insatiable flame
Nothing left behind
Evading the silence
Casting shadows far and wide
As thoughts unwind
Certain fragments prevail
Beneath the weight of
Wasted hours
Desire still lies
Some traces will remain
Adding to the resonance of despair
Saturnine verses
The archetype for my disease
A tragedy with the intent
Of maiming the unmendable
With each wary stride
Stumbling down the line
And looking back
At footprints etched by time
Concealed beneath aversion
Seeking solace in the echoes
A silhouette against the dying light
Behind a veil of
Wistful yearning
A dying ember’s plea - ike ashes to the fire
I’m embrace by withered arms - reaching for a spark
Tracing ashen remains - as thoughts unwind
Certain fragments prevail
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The Sands
06:35
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7. |
Meander
07:13
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MEANDER
A gently rippling narrow stream
Meandering through a secluded vale
At a distance its wide banks are framed
by wildwood
I
n curves and bends on its way
Scouring the terrain into submission
With the steady force to continue
Not come to a halt - Lest to vanish into the ground
Drought and floods, nature will change and take its course
Restless and fleeting
Curves shift, breakthroughs occur
where the path refuses to comply
A shard of a skull emerges
From the silt near the shore.
Embedded deep into the bone
An arrowhead, green oxidised
Other bones repose in reach
Of human origin and stock
Scattered on the bank and in the riverbed
Broken, shattered, cut and bruised,
Taken for what they have carried
Left the dead and wounded behind.
Time graciously buried them.
Left to oblivion
The peaceful stream continued to meander
to seek new paths.
To bury new secrets
Or reveal some of old
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Mirror of Deception Germany
Unorthodox Doom Metal since 1990.
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