Submissions by Xaphan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Poetry - To muse in the inner space of imagination.
Zombie Apocalypse Requiem
THE ZOMBIE BUG
They knew it was fake news and that no vaccines would ever cure
Hell on Earth was found in a new strain, infallible and deadly pure
Each mutation patently intelligently designed, against a virus drug
Zealots became AI empowered, when infected by the zombie bug
Over a course, of months and years, every curfew inevitably failed
Madness roamed, onto the streets, from the sky the bullets hailed
But nothing could stop the rise of those labelled as the living dead
In the raging flames of pyres though, they tried to stop the spread ...
They knew it was fake news and that no vaccines would ever cure
Hell on Earth was found in a new strain, infallible and deadly pure
Each mutation patently intelligently designed, against a virus drug
Zealots became AI empowered, when infected by the zombie bug
Over a course, of months and years, every curfew inevitably failed
Madness roamed, onto the streets, from the sky the bullets hailed
But nothing could stop the rise of those labelled as the living dead
In the raging flames of pyres though, they tried to stop the spread ...
#atheism
#religion
#apocalypse
#zombies
#pandemic
426 reads
6,000 Volts
#violence
#atheism
#religion
#heaven
#hell
283 reads
Brutal Assault
Your eyes are still looking, but saying nothing, like you've been stabbed in the back
And your demeanour, that was always mistrusting, is questioning a matter of fact...
You know if I could I would listen, but you're gagging on gore, but I can cover your staring eyes that are shocked and unsure. Because I fear those wandering eyes are wondering and wanting an answer, for you're pouring out blood like you're a human decanter! But this was a vicious attack that wasn't my fault, this was a vicious attack and then a brutal assault.
It wasn't me, for I...
And your demeanour, that was always mistrusting, is questioning a matter of fact...
You know if I could I would listen, but you're gagging on gore, but I can cover your staring eyes that are shocked and unsure. Because I fear those wandering eyes are wondering and wanting an answer, for you're pouring out blood like you're a human decanter! But this was a vicious attack that wasn't my fault, this was a vicious attack and then a brutal assault.
It wasn't me, for I...
#dark
#relationships
#violence
#MentalHealth
#addiction
315 reads
Secret Worlds
Subconscious dreamers of athanasia will for an eternity strive
Enclosed in their secret worlds on the periphery of the scythe
Concealed in pseudo sanctuaries from arcadia to airy castles
Reticent, elusive and precautious of revenant satanic vassals
Evanescing to an essence, from paramnesia they'll be drawn
To their idyllic realms, but where a straw man stirs in the corn
Wise minds will find their unreality to avoid the harvest's host
On the otherside of their sweven, there's a shire for the ghost
Roaming perpetually, they'll be where the reverie never...
Enclosed in their secret worlds on the periphery of the scythe
Concealed in pseudo sanctuaries from arcadia to airy castles
Reticent, elusive and precautious of revenant satanic vassals
Evanescing to an essence, from paramnesia they'll be drawn
To their idyllic realms, but where a straw man stirs in the corn
Wise minds will find their unreality to avoid the harvest's host
On the otherside of their sweven, there's a shire for the ghost
Roaming perpetually, they'll be where the reverie never...
#dark
#dreams
#evil #nightmares
#evil #nightmares
298 reads
Blood And Gore
Broken mirrors lie in shattered shards, scattered on a sodden floor
Lethal splinters beneath a splattered ceiling, in the blood and gore
Offal spills from butchered guts and sightless eyes no longer weep
On a pale face there're clotty pools, as brains from a fracture seep
Death remembers naught of pain and fear, or a wielding of an axe
And the gratuitous violence of a madman's, unappeasable attacks
Now that we have lost our minds, now is my time to write a wrong
Despair likes to share, but only silence trips from a bloated tongue
God wasn't by your side...
Lethal splinters beneath a splattered ceiling, in the blood and gore
Offal spills from butchered guts and sightless eyes no longer weep
On a pale face there're clotty pools, as brains from a fracture seep
Death remembers naught of pain and fear, or a wielding of an axe
And the gratuitous violence of a madman's, unappeasable attacks
Now that we have lost our minds, now is my time to write a wrong
Despair likes to share, but only silence trips from a bloated tongue
God wasn't by your side...
#dark
#violence
#death
489 reads
Where Demons Dwell
Where demons dwell, well you know it's hell defined
Here is not where I was, this is not my unwired mind
Every dark thought I conceived I hid in a lucid dream
Razing them in pyres, cremating the absurd obscene
Evil sated me, as hate baited me and I took the hook
Drowning in self loathing, but for my soul I didn't look
Eddying memories left me riding the demented mare
My apocalyptic psyche crumbling into a raven's stare
On the outside I am inside out and my eyes are glass
Nothing lives within, just my demons reflections pass
Satan sired them in...
Here is not where I was, this is not my unwired mind
Every dark thought I conceived I hid in a lucid dream
Razing them in pyres, cremating the absurd obscene
Evil sated me, as hate baited me and I took the hook
Drowning in self loathing, but for my soul I didn't look
Eddying memories left me riding the demented mare
My apocalyptic psyche crumbling into a raven's stare
On the outside I am inside out and my eyes are glass
Nothing lives within, just my demons reflections pass
Satan sired them in...
#dark
#monsters
#MentalHealth #nightmares
#MentalHealth #nightmares
468 reads
Raised In Hell
Raised in Hell, one of three, all forged in dragon fire
Astaroth, is from the flaming pit, of the burning shire
In faux gods we trust, as the others revere his name
Sent to condemn and damn us, with his dying flame
Evil trinitarian, there is nothing in his stagnant heart
Darkness is his domain and his horrors a form of art
Insane in second sight and eyes like piercing tracers
No one lives in his gaze, or claws as sharp as razors
He will avenge, by using garrotting wires for snitches
Endearing himself, to old banshees and hag witches
Let no one...
Astaroth, is from the flaming pit, of the burning shire
In faux gods we trust, as the others revere his name
Sent to condemn and damn us, with his dying flame
Evil trinitarian, there is nothing in his stagnant heart
Darkness is his domain and his horrors a form of art
Insane in second sight and eyes like piercing tracers
No one lives in his gaze, or claws as sharp as razors
He will avenge, by using garrotting wires for snitches
Endearing himself, to old banshees and hag witches
Let no one...
#evil
#monsters
#hell
336 reads
Labyrinthian
Loose knot your dreams, even though all your demons wait
And fear knot the noose that will hang behind an open gate
Because nothing's there now, just a phobia of empty tombs
Your paranoiac terrors were conjured by netherworld runes
Rouse yourself from nightmares where the cannibals graze
In the neural networks of your unwinding, re-minding maze
No need to hide and seek in your sleeps subliminal warren
Those who loiter there are all well known, none are foreign
Haunting memories will swirl 'til captured by a spider's web
In labyrinthian delusions...
And fear knot the noose that will hang behind an open gate
Because nothing's there now, just a phobia of empty tombs
Your paranoiac terrors were conjured by netherworld runes
Rouse yourself from nightmares where the cannibals graze
In the neural networks of your unwinding, re-minding maze
No need to hide and seek in your sleeps subliminal warren
Those who loiter there are all well known, none are foreign
Haunting memories will swirl 'til captured by a spider's web
In labyrinthian delusions...
#dark
#dreams
#death #nightmares
#death #nightmares
365 reads
Evanescing
I've seen it all before, from the Earth to the Moon and from the Moon to Mars
I've seen myriad distant solar systems and galaxies, with collapsing stars
And I've seen nothing, nothing but what they've wanted me to see
And I've believed what they've told me and I think you'd agree
Maybe I've heard it all before, for I know what they said
Maybe it's just their voices, that I heard in my head
It's all in my cranium, I'm repelling the attacks
It's melting my mind, it's dripping like wax
I can't focus forward, it's all just before
I feel it fading,...
I've seen myriad distant solar systems and galaxies, with collapsing stars
And I've seen nothing, nothing but what they've wanted me to see
And I've believed what they've told me and I think you'd agree
Maybe I've heard it all before, for I know what they said
Maybe it's just their voices, that I heard in my head
It's all in my cranium, I'm repelling the attacks
It's melting my mind, it's dripping like wax
I can't focus forward, it's all just before
I feel it fading,...
#dark
#death
#MentalHealth #confusion
#MentalHealth #confusion
270 reads
It's The Quiet Place
It's an omniverse, where no one follows, as you escape
Though the outside is turmoil, inside, it's the quiet place
Safe as a sanctuary, it's more than any whimsical vision
This autonomous domain, lies beyond divinity's derision
Hidden in a magical forest there's a way through a door
Enticing you through, into a meadow of crystalline hoar
Quagmires of mares may rouse, for monsters won't die
Utopian dreams though, will be your appendages to fly
It's the quiet place, of tranquillity, like the ocean's swell
Exclusive to you, even though your demons may...
Though the outside is turmoil, inside, it's the quiet place
Safe as a sanctuary, it's more than any whimsical vision
This autonomous domain, lies beyond divinity's derision
Hidden in a magical forest there's a way through a door
Enticing you through, into a meadow of crystalline hoar
Quagmires of mares may rouse, for monsters won't die
Utopian dreams though, will be your appendages to fly
It's the quiet place, of tranquillity, like the ocean's swell
Exclusive to you, even though your demons may...
#dark
#dreams
#utopia #nightmares
#utopia #nightmares
349 reads
In Reflection
In a paltering mirror I see nothing, but a dying flame
Nefarious shadows, some as dark as a bloody stain
Reflecting the eroding essence of what I used to be
Evanescing, like my old humanity, but now I'm free
For what I am now is restricted, to the eternal night
Looking back I would pray, now I prey on with spite
Evading the radioactive burning from dawn to dusk
Choosing to unlive in darkness, that only I can trust
Tonight I will leech 'til sated, be they a naif, or witch
In the mirror the light has died and the dark is pitch
Outside I'll fly...
Nefarious shadows, some as dark as a bloody stain
Reflecting the eroding essence of what I used to be
Evanescing, like my old humanity, but now I'm free
For what I am now is restricted, to the eternal night
Looking back I would pray, now I prey on with spite
Evading the radioactive burning from dawn to dusk
Choosing to unlive in darkness, that only I can trust
Tonight I will leech 'til sated, be they a naif, or witch
In the mirror the light has died and the dark is pitch
Outside I'll fly...
#dark
#evil
#vampires
404 reads
A Mockery Of Ghosts
Alas they are there (more than before) in your peripheral vision
Mysteriously macabre, of unreality and excluded from perdition
Open your open eyes, if nothing is there, then open them wider
Catch them in a glance, because you'll soon be paying the piper
Keep your insanity to yourself, for there'll be no hope of escape
Enthused by demise, those of the passed, will feast on your fate
Ransacking your mind, they'll seek, but there is nowhere to hide
Your effervescence is evanescent, you cannot turn back the tide
Omnipresent phantoms are amassing, in the...
Mysteriously macabre, of unreality and excluded from perdition
Open your open eyes, if nothing is there, then open them wider
Catch them in a glance, because you'll soon be paying the piper
Keep your insanity to yourself, for there'll be no hope of escape
Enthused by demise, those of the passed, will feast on your fate
Ransacking your mind, they'll seek, but there is nowhere to hide
Your effervescence is evanescent, you cannot turn back the tide
Omnipresent phantoms are amassing, in the...
#dark
#death
#ghosts
234 reads
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