Submissions by J_Kyle (J Kyle)

A voice from behind that you fail to hear
The creature that lurks and screams in your ear
If under the bed, if all in your head
The ones in the dark will not sleep til you're dead

If you so chose to fight for your meal
They'll nail down your feet and open your heel
Forward you'll fall leaving face on the ground
An army of ropes will be tying you down

Beaten and lapsed and despaired are your hopes
With blood and then dirt and then tears in your throat
A glimpse of the past, you now hear what they say
They're all chanting softly, they're...

Disease dealers
Famine forgers
Fueling fires like fortunes of flint
(Here lies my hero)
Halfway haphazard while wholly hypnotized
Drearily departing downward, deepening only daily
Death doth call with a dark, damp delay
          -knock-

Dazed and despaired
Fumbling to feel
Forgetting the fear and the fare of the deal
Hazed and harmed
Becoming the blood
The best of battalions now bask in the mud
Death doth deliver with deceitful decay
           -knock-

Failure, failure on the wall
Where's the flesh behind my jaw?...

The princess looks and sees the drips,
Dripping from her lower lip
It flows onto her precious dress,
Her majesty is now a mess
The fractured blade lay by her head,
As she stumbles from her bed
The mirror shown beauty no more,
But blood and filth upon the floor

To the staircase, through the tower,
Seeing white on this dark hour
The last sound that was heard that day,
Was as the Prince did run away
Despair had raged his calloused soul,
The love that burned had now grown cold
Like ivy gripping to its stone,
He takes his final...