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The Mark of the Beast
Deviously dragging a decapitated corpse.
Damned to the darkened depths of Hell.
Riding thy rotting, ravenous horse,
Down to the den where the demons doth dwell.
As I approach the guarded gates,
A passage to the underworld.
I breach the bestial barriers,
A world of wicked woes unfurled.
The flames they flicker violently, along the walls of fire and stone;
Where Satan sits so silently, upon a throne of flesh and bone.
His servants stand before Him,
Unholy and unwavering;
Telling tales of timeless torture,
So loathsome and unsavory.
I bow before the blackened beast, with my severed sacrifice at hand;
Granting Him a gracious gift, for intruding on his sacred land.
"Father of sacrilegious sin,
I've done the deeds you've asked of me.
Please, bestow your blackened blessing:
Infernal immortality."
In sadistic salvation, my soul is swiftly stolen.
Screaming and showered - with fresh hemoglobin;
Reduced to mere filth, so dark and deceased;
Then beaten and branded - the mark of the Beast.
Now I stand proud, as one with the dead;
Emblazoned His name, upon my forehead.
I ride into the night, with a nefarious zest.
Compelled to complete my next hideous quest.
Damned to the darkened depths of Hell.
Riding thy rotting, ravenous horse,
Down to the den where the demons doth dwell.
As I approach the guarded gates,
A passage to the underworld.
I breach the bestial barriers,
A world of wicked woes unfurled.
The flames they flicker violently, along the walls of fire and stone;
Where Satan sits so silently, upon a throne of flesh and bone.
His servants stand before Him,
Unholy and unwavering;
Telling tales of timeless torture,
So loathsome and unsavory.
I bow before the blackened beast, with my severed sacrifice at hand;
Granting Him a gracious gift, for intruding on his sacred land.
"Father of sacrilegious sin,
I've done the deeds you've asked of me.
Please, bestow your blackened blessing:
Infernal immortality."
In sadistic salvation, my soul is swiftly stolen.
Screaming and showered - with fresh hemoglobin;
Reduced to mere filth, so dark and deceased;
Then beaten and branded - the mark of the Beast.
Now I stand proud, as one with the dead;
Emblazoned His name, upon my forehead.
I ride into the night, with a nefarious zest.
Compelled to complete my next hideous quest.
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re: Poem
19th Jan 2012 5:05am
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19th Jan 2012 7:40pm
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re: this is great
19th Jan 2012 7:47pm
Thank you, I like you also. I actually just commented on one of your poems and came back to my profile to see a comment from you :p
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20th Jan 2012 6:13pm
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re: the mark of the beast
21st Jan 2012 2:49am
Thank you for your awesome feedback :). You are certainly talented also. Thanks for taking the time to say more than a few words.
Amazing!!!
21st Jan 2012 3:28am
re: Amazing!!!
21st Jan 2012 3:38am
Bang ya head
21st Jan 2012 6:49pm
The perfect lyric for a steamroller song. I seem to hear her in the head. Black Metal. Yes, sir.\m/
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re: Bang ya head
21st Jan 2012 7:00pm
Thanks for the comment :). Metal is a big influence in my poetry, glad you noticed!
AHH!
22nd Jan 2012 5:23am
I love this poem.. One of my faves from you jimmy!! Riding thy rotten ravenous horse... it's awesome man! All of it flows very well. Actually, one of my favorites ever!
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I hear
22nd Jan 2012 10:45pm
A sort of symphonic and gothic yet powerful and satanic sort of black metal piece in this one. \m/
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re: I hear
23rd Jan 2012 00:44am
\m/! Thanks for the comment; glad to hear your interpretation. I appreciate it :)
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24th Jan 2012 3:45pm
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re: Im in
24th Jan 2012 4:18pm
Wow
25th Jan 2012 9:56pm
I love how you thought out each word. How they sound together. How they describe so well. Great imagery.
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re: Wow
25th Jan 2012 10:37pm
<3
30th Jan 2012 2:34pm
re: <3
30th Jan 2012 9:35pm
You're on of the very few
3rd Feb 2012 4:04am
Although I can't relate on a personal level to most of your poems, I actually really like the way you write. I feel like in more ways than one, you are on my level, a feeling I don't commonly have with people on this site. You're one of the very, very few
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re: You're on of the very few
3rd Feb 2012 4:15am
Interesting, I'm glad you feel that way :). It's nice to have something in common with someone lol. By the way: I can't really relate to most of my poems on a personal level either, I just try to tell a good horror story. I feel sort of honored in a way for being one you can relate to. Thank you very much for your kind words!
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4th Feb 2012 2:24am
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re: Evil
4th Feb 2012 3:12am
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6th Feb 2012 8:37pm
re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6th Feb 2012 10:21pm
nefarious....
10th Feb 2012 8:44am
you had me just for that. :)
vivid. very. ever considered writing lyrics in metal? you'd be in great demand :P
vivid. very. ever considered writing lyrics in metal? you'd be in great demand :P
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re: nefarious....
Thank you very much 13. I would love - to write lyrics for metal - that would be great. Glad you enjoyed my poetry!
aliteration
13th Feb 2012 3:38am
re: aliteration
13th Feb 2012 5:47am
=)
Appreciate the alliteration here.I know its bit difficult to ring similar words together as i myself have fetish for alliteration.
Liked the dark stuff.
Liked the dark stuff.
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re: =)
23rd Feb 2012 3:37pm
Thanks Rakhi :). Alliteration is one of the more enjoyable literary techniques, IMO. So fun to use :D
This is EPIC
2nd Apr 2012 4:22am
I effin loved this man! XD so vivid! I rarely see anything like this anymore..
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re: This is EPIC
3rd Apr 2012 7:06am
I'm really glad that you think so :). I spent a few days messing around with it to get it just how I wanted it. Thanks for the feedback!