This is my poetry collection, poetry I've written just in the past week. I hope someone enjoys it. If not, constructive criticism is welcome.

-------------------------------

"From the stars we came, to the stars we return."

Your eyes fail you now, your final wordly link
the black darkness creeps up, long past due
Slowly and surely, it envelops you
where will you go, you think?

Your life was arduous, hard is true
your sleep comes, slowly, you try to cry
You can't stop it, even though you try
you can't escape it, it conquers you

What lies for you, beyond the mist of your mind
as it begins to die, fade away
you feel everything slipping away
like am embrace, sinking slowly into warmth so kind

Your mind begins to shut down
memories of your life, nothing more
than simple faded clothes you seem to have never wore
you're like church bells, ringing, dying, in center of town

Tears form on your eyes, into them they sink
though you don't know it
you feel fear, though you can't feel it
what will happen, you again think?

You can't feel, you can't hear, you can't see
everything is gone completely
you feel death coming for you finally
you are afraid of the death that sets you free

You hear a voice, deep within your head
it's strong, stern, manly, without real care
it comes from nowhere and somewhere
It speaks to you, you know you are almost dead

Fear not the demise of your life!
Should you die, as you have and are
You will finally rest amongst sun and star
You taste the end of life, of burden, of strife

This is the last voice you will ever hear
Lay your weary head to rest
as your final thoughts slip away at my behest
slowly but surely, disappearing is all your fear

Fear not the demise of your existence!
Your life is finally ending
and the pain you have been feeling
is finally beginning to disappear hence

This is the voice of kindness
the voice of compassion, you see
a voice to comfort you and make you finally free
of your burdened life, now quite lifeless

Fear not that the living will forget you!
it matters not in the final, dark end
for you, your mind no one can tend
these things make us all, to ourselves, true

Love the pains you have felt
Embrace the sadness of life as if in a pot it stirs
into all the pains and all the failures
And all the cards you have been dealt

This is sadness' breath
finally your body may lie
finally your mind may die
as you pass into death

Death calls to you, a beauty beyond anything thought grand
warmth embraces you, a warmth of coldness
you fear nothing, finally, you have let go of existence
and everything fades away you take Death's hand.

From the stars we came
to the stars we return
From death we came
to death shall we return.

---------------------------

"Paper Mache"

Dream a little dream of love and joys
perchance rain comes and drives you to hide
cry not for the people outside
they're all just paper mache toys.

(I've been thinking of expanding this, I can't quite come up with ways of making it into a longer poem like my "From the stars we came" one I posted already. )

-------------------------------------

"Fade to Black"

Nice to know you
Do you perhaps remember me?
Shall I tell you what these years make me see?

Love isn't the answer
Hate is the way
Forgiveness isn't the answer
Revenge is the way

It's what you always told me
it's what I always knew
I just never wanted to admit anew
but I've become deadly

I've been waiting (I take a bow)
a long time now
don't scream now
You're all mine now

Will you follow me
Down, down, down here
will you show me
your absolute fear?

Feel the tape close your lips
Feel the binds hold each wrist
feel the hands on your neck that rips
taking your life away, fist by fist

Feel the hand strike your face front and back
feel the bruises rising with each of my actions
feel the garrotte envelop your neck
feel it pull into your skin as it tightens

I laugh at you as you weep
tears streaming down your face as you look to the door
I mock your anguish, finally being so deep
as the tears from your face fall to the floor

Feel my fist smash your face
feel your teeth crack and break
Feel my grip on your hair with an embrace
Feel your head smash the floor, feel it ache

I've been waiting a long time now, fellow
With the pains you gave, I will avenge
you gave me so long ago
I will exact my dark revenge

Feel the blade on your neck
Slicing into your flesh, with your own blood shall you drown
feel your life slip, feel the wreck
like the blood dripping down

Pleased to meet you
Nice to know you
I'm sure we've met, you see
I'm sure you know me.

You made me this (I tell you)
I wanted to be close to you
But now my life must end, to this end I am true
and so the blade strikes my neck, a release long overdue

I'm on the floor, writhing
the blood runs red and deep, flow it does not lack
I feel my life ending
With a final bow, I fade to black.

------------------------------------

"Eternal Night"

Harken the call of thy beating heart,
Oh sons and daughters
Of the earthen ground
Where the bodies of the dead lay apart!

Through death and victory
The blood of thy foes
Washes clean the dirt of thy hands,
Oh brave and true warrior, to the earth we bury.

We battle and avenge
The evils against us our foes submit.
We love, we embrace, we commit
To our hearts the ones we lost in a world so starlit,
Their memories through time we omit;
We shall have our revenge!

Short and brilliant, our lives shine bright.
We die with honor, on our feet
And not in the comfort of bed at night.
We join our fathers
In the place where no shadows fall for respite.

We battle forever in our fathers' halls
Throughout the Eternal Night,
As we await our sons and daughters
In the place where no shadow falls.

-------------------------------

"Little Sister"

Little sister can't you find another way
will you live for another day
think of the joys and moments
not the pains and the ailments

Little sister can't you find another way
can't you fight for another day
can't you let go of everything
don't be Death's plaything

Little sister can't you find another way
can't you be with me one more day
I know your pains of long ago
Much more well than you'll ever know

Little sister can't you find another way
can't you let me in for just one day
what can I do to make it all better
is there anything that will matter?

Little sister can't you find another way
can't you bask in the joy of another day
Let me be your hero, let me save you
To you shall I always be true.

No more sorrow, no more somber tears
Let my love wash away your fears
Don't be scared, put your hand in mine
If you love me, give me a sign.

Dedicated to my little sister, whom I will always love and always remember.

-----------------------------------

"Evil Men in the Gardens of Paradise"

We are on the side of the demons
We have forsaken the angels' burdens
We have learned insanity isn't so heinous
And we have thus embraced the madness

We are the evil men in the gardens of paradise
sent by the forces of death on a mission of vice
yet we fight for our people, though they were lost long ago
to bring destruction and devastation wherever we go

Should we be the angels of our better natures
Should we be the demons of our moral errors
Are we then the destroyers of dreams
or the protectors of blasphemes?

We know not why we fight, why we resist
fighting with bomb, gun, and fist
fighting for another day, another day without hope
and our own nature is our own gallows rope

And so the darkness of night fades and finally stills
then we see the morning sun, rising above the hills
we sneak into the destroyed cities, we hide in the ruins
as we endeavor to destroy them our bombs and our guns

Are we the angels, fighting for a better world of such brilliance
Are we the demons, fighting for all to enter eternal silence
we know not which we are, yet we enter the final strife
and we fade, never remembered again in this life.

--------------------------------

"Untitled"

If we should be condemned to Hell
In youthful arrogance and deed
If our minds become fell
Then by sacrifice shall we lead
If we should be condemned to burn
To surrender to the fire
If it should be our turn
With courage will we burn on the pyre
Let us drink to years forgotten
Fill our cups from the waters of the well
Let us remember the fallen
As we descend and conquer Hell.

__________________
We're on the side of the demons. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go.