Book of Tears von Ignis_Fatuus (A Collection of my Poetry) ================================================================================ Hymn to the Night ----------------- A candle shining bright Your face shines in the fairly light Around you is the dark moonlit night Slowly I regain my nighttime sight It is the night that brings the dreams It is the darkness in which the freedom dwells Your face and cheeks seem to be wet Though your eyes show the purest love What can I do for you, oh tell me, That you, my Darling, can love again? It is the that morning wakes you up It is the morning that casts away your nightly dreams Trust me and take my offered hand I'll lead you to a lunar land It is far and hidden in the stars It is the land where we can love forevermore It is the dusk that brings the night But it is the dawn that brings the morn I will love you until the end of time Until the End of time I will stay with you I will dry the salty water from your cheeks By simply kissing away your tears So, hold the nights in your days For the morning will come for sure... Sin Lies Within --------------- On a summer's day The birds have told Of a cruel, treaty way And the falling of the bold Oh beware, beware For sin lies within They sung of brother's love And of a beloved sacrifice He has given, he the tough But after all, it was not wise Oh farmer beware Do not fall for the sin The bittersweet fruits of sin Now will start to grow They all lie in us within And, oh, we can fall so low You will be cursed And cast forever out The shepherd will be dead And the farmer will go east Never again he will be glad Damned to have a bloody feast The sin it starts to grow Never give a chance to it Not alive, but never dying Feeling pain, knowing the fault It is more than a nighttime crying Only because the sin has called The sin had dragged you down Into a life of misery Into a life of darkness Into a life of fault Why have you fallen for the sin? The Ankh -------- White like marble, Red like blood, Black lines through the marble room. The sign of life In the middle of the room. A girl's lying there. Her eyes are closed, her heart is dead, But words are still in her. He said them more than once. "I believe in you!" He told her nightmares And dark dreams, Always knowing, what he was saying. Now she's dying in the marble room, Guarded by the sign of life. About to Leave -------------- Every tear you spilled for me Every thought you had 'bout me Every night you lay awake Every smile you smiled at me I won't forget it never ever But I am about to leave Please let me go and walk away Though I have a reason here to stay Never spill a tear for me Never have a thought 'bout me Never lie awake at night Never smile a smile at me I must forget it anyway Since I am about to leave I will go and walk away And you are no reason for to stay Africa ------ Wander in the desert sand With heavy load Animals around Poverty you see Destroy the houses Heal the wounds In a room Poverty and war Stand in endless lines Wait for water Thirst you feel Poverty it is Cry for your child He will die It is all around In poverty is death Feed the hungry Help to survive There are people who do care Though poverty and war Growing Cold ------------ Growing cold to all their jeers Weeping always silent tears The friend you trusted fell so deep Another reason there to weep The words of aid ignored Meeting one convinced heart Placed your trust into the friend Truth was always there to bend Now it is a well known lore No one there to carry anymore Until you realized it was your trust Placed into the wrong destroyed it fast Took a mask, pretended hope Around your neck you felt the rope The soul and heart escaped scarred Not the body stayed unhurt Soon the last bearers of your trust Decided you must change at last Always crying salty tears You ignored now all their fears Until you fled across the sea And you thought you were now free But coming back you knew It was all sure not true They broke the valued gift so rare And turned your hope into a mare Always telling you to change You knew it was outside your range Hopes you had when coming back Are turned into a worthless wreck Understanding is not there You retreat back in your lair You grew cold to all their jeers You still hold back your salty tears But trust you know to keep Until you do the daring leap Lost Day -------- I feel the day I see the night I want the dawn I know the dark There is no end Lost in the dark It is an endless night The sun's chariots are gone The warriors of night surrounding me I want to leave Entering the dawn is what I want The black moon around me All the star-gates are now lost No longer a crystal lake That leads my way to Dragon's Lair The way to my escape I am lost I search the day I live the night I chase the dawn I hate the dusk Where is the crystal lake? Where has the dark twilight gone? I taste the bitter-sweet That are the fruits of sin And dive into dark waters Of the azure ocean calm And will never find the dawn Ocean Soul ---------- The azure fields I do walk Seeing wonders never thought Diving deep into the sea Never coming out again Water water everywhere The azure fields are always there Dress in white and leave the land Azurite is all you need The oceans is so bright and calm But can be deadly after all Never think the sea is mine It is fierce and it is wild All rivers flowing there A long long way they will go To see the ocean, see the sea To be freed forevermore See the oceans and be free Forget all pain, forget all grief Only see the bluest azurite Dive into and free yourself Phoenix ------- A thousand nightmares To sleep with eyes wide open A rage deep within my soul It gets stronger while we rest All sweet dreams are now gone With the wind they have all left Only a last remain of fall is there To tell us not forget Holding on, feeling spring I know it is just lost for me Others dwell in spring, not me Cold and winter is to come Vastness, white and cruel Dead to our world I'll enter Returning I will not My reasons left behind I lost them long ago In the darkest light of dusk The light of moonlight's shadow shone on me The barren lands are calling Steady steps will take me there Dreadless I will walk the way Not even looking back You can't hold me here All my loved is over there The emptiness is filled with long forgotten laughter A crystal lake there is Of broken faith and fallen hopes The rain is made of dried and olden tears Eternal twilight I will see Face to face with all the sins I will sleep and have my rest To come like Phoenix from the ashes Rest ---- Racing mind Thousand thoughts No time to rest Must keep on Silent screams Dark outside No warmth in here Stop the cold Tearing sound Pounding pain I can't stand it Help me out Curses heard Laid to sleep Final Silence Slowing down Sitting here Rest is short Oblivion Give it now Not to reach It is lost I'll never get I forgot Rage in me No mercy I want to rest And I do Tears ----- The cold inside It is like ice I want to cry But tears won't come I don't know what to feel All the feelings are now gone All the laughter has now ceased But still - The tears won't come Help me out What should I do? I am alone But still no tears to come I want it all to go away The world to leave behind To sleep and all forget But there is no sleep and still no tears No one cares What I just feel I want to talk Then the tears would come I want to cry, it is true But not here in that grey It is warmth I want to feel But there the tears won't come I hear something A silent sound A laugh away Now the tears come true I don't feel relieved Although this water brings oblivion But I can't forget it all tonight Finally the tears have come The cold inside It stays in me I stopped to cry But tears did not help I still don't know what I should feel Still the feelings are all gone No laughter has returned Once again the tears are gone The Universal Function ---------------------- Rotation into nothingness Having no control The coordinates unknown A path into the stars People walking next to me Parallel their way Perpendicular so soon The vertex lies ahead The matrix of our life Woven by the silver moon The formula is of the stars Millenniums have purified The stellar world betrothed A tragedy of heavens The universal function Unknown to us all Trail of Ashes -------------- Clad in darkness he is coming A trail of ashes in his wake The darkest night his haven safe Destruction of the world his war Dreams and wishes left behind A band of heroes went for blood To fight with arrow, bow and sword Against the evil in their midst With magic strong and steel so sharp A demon on their world unleashed The crowded city left in ruins And death amidst the mighty ones Inferno, necromancing debt Brought sin into the hero's band And then their hearts so weak Surrendered well to darkness sweet With darkness in his evil heart He conquered soon the foreign world The peasants, knights and kings so fair Never found a way to darkness fight Clad in darkness he is coming A trail of ashes in his wake And death upon the cursed world Clad in darkness and in death Fate ---- Like the moon her eyes Stars shimmered in her hair “Let us meet then in December.” December came She was not there A single flake down the sky January came and went In February she wrote “In Egypt I am.” In March she came With hair as wheat in summer “I will stay with you.” We were seventeen that year Young and fair “We will stay for forever” Soon church bells chimed For us and only for us “Yes, I will”, she said Few months passed in happiness As fate struck in “Death stands at our door.” Withering and wilting Her beauty faded “Remember our promise.” A grave covered with roses And lilies she liked “My dearest girl, I love you so.” Darkness entered my world The stars vanished in the night “One day together again.” Hosted by Animexx e.V. 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