death – Bass Bastard https://bassbastard.com I am the BassBastard Wed, 13 May 2026 18:51:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/bassbastard.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-OG-BB-CLEAN.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 death – Bass Bastard https://bassbastard.com 32 32 51670482 Darkness https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/13/darkness/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/13/darkness/#respond Wed, 13 May 2026 18:51:22 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3973 Continue reading "Darkness"

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poised between land, sea, and sky
a crossroads elemental
a place to live and die

void at my back
fire to the fore
Mother Ocean is calling
But the moon pulls once more

solid ground in her safety
to hold and protect
The fire up above in the waters reflects

The void that birthed what stands today
calls with chilling comfort
to take the pain away…

Take the pain away
Take the pain away
abdicate sensation
Give in to the numb

Take the pain away
Take the pain away
undoing creation
blind, deaf, and dumb

chasing light receding
Take the pain away
The world turns to darkness
to take the pain away

splitting atoms
dividing cells
begin again in darkness
over a sunless sea

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Toxic Dreams https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/toxic-dreams/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/toxic-dreams/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:51:45 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3942 Continue reading "Toxic Dreams"

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Contaminated thoughts
Fueled by toxic dreams
The smile says tranquility
Inside the brain just screams

Plastic eyes reflect the world
No shine coming from within
Trauma blasted mental state
Kills thoughts as they begin

Circling the cavitation
The waste lay in its wake
Another day, another pill
Is it a good day to break

Contaminated thoughts
Fueled by toxic dreams
The smile says tranquility
Inside the brain just screams

Needing to nurture mother
To sleep a dreamless eternity
Crawl inside the barren soil
And feed it with my entity

Look within and find the void
In the middle of the maelstrom
Quiet place of entropy
The calming peace of sanctum

Contaminated thoughts
Fueled by toxic dreams
The smile says tranquility
Inside the brain just screams

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Veil https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/veil/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/veil/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:49:11 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3940 Continue reading "Veil"

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I do not remember a time I was on the other side of the veil
a time before the time I would know about how we fell
The purpose we serve as the vessels of flesh
that we touch and explore, and that we never should tell

Those who whisper across the barrier crave innocent minds
never knowing who will answer, who the grooming finds
hands reaching into the membrane, groping, unknown
not caring of the aftermath and how it all unwinds

The monsters are known to us
never aliens from beyond
No demons sneaking over
or spirits to respond

The monsters will infect you
If you take the poison to heart
purge yourself, end the cycle
Don’t let the infection start

We are human, we are broken
We are used and then discarded
our scars left festering
since the wounds were imparted

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Before the Sword https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/before-the-sword-2/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/before-the-sword-2/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:46:48 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3938 Continue reading "Before the Sword"

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I am cast out
falling
You’ll find me burning
before you find me crawling

vile deceiver
screaming
Reality raw
Eden was a man lost dreaming

Just creation
nature
built-in instincts call
Lines between man and ape blur

Mankind was lied to
before the sword
rotting in a garden
eternity bored
good and evil
wisdom denied
light-bringer fell
When heaven lied

another death
nailed it
save from creation
Once the father has failed it

bloodborne flesh needs
made me
Driven by my needs
until I find who flayed me

born into death
rotting
walking decomposed
What is the maker plotting

Is it chaos
no plan
fluke of the machine
that made us more than human

Mankind was lied to
before the sword
rotting in a garden
eternity bored
good and evil
wisdom denied
light-bringer fell
When heaven lied

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Heresy in Death https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/heresy-in-death/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/heresy-in-death/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:36:26 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3930 Continue reading "Heresy in Death"

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The afterlife is a huge plane, not flat.
There are plateaus
The plateaus are as large as needed; each is a realm protected by the gods of the past and of the now.
Power is that of will, boosted by the faith of the followers
The vast valleys between the plateaus are filled with the faithless dead
, the faithless dead die again and again, lacking the divine protection of the realms of the plateaus
And there is hunger
that can cause one to consume the bodies of the dead souls. This can nourish as well as corrupt. The act of nourishing happens when healing your fellow dead. Corruption from consuming.

Your power can be increased through the faith of your followers. But they cannot be told this in the beginning. Only voluntary faith creates the connection between the faithful and the bright one.

Bright one must protect.
can start raising a plateau.

The dark ones feed and warp those they consume into twisted parodies of the souls they were in life.

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Enemy of my Enemy https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/enemy-of-my-enemy/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/enemy-of-my-enemy/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:32:33 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3928 Continue reading "Enemy of my Enemy"

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The enemy of my Enemy
May not be a friend to me
May share the same enmity
That created my first enemy

To come to terms with life
Means you’ve identified your death
Means you’ve found meaning in your breath
But do not accept the sentence
Do not ever rest

You’ve identified the enemy
It will swallow you in entropy
It will sit waiting for the inevitable breakdown of sanity
But sanity is the enemy of your enemy in the light
And you have to be crazy to continue with this fight

The enemy of my Enemy
May not be a friend to me
May share the same enmity
That created my first enemy

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Mesh https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/mesh/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/05/01/mesh/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 02:30:09 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3926 Continue reading "Mesh"

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The stars will fall
Heaven will hear
the gravity of our distaste

The filth will come
the truth is now
can not be erased

Vile the hand
led by the head
that shined so bright before

Rotting away
the accolades
starved forever more

I want you to fall to me
warping ’till you break
nothing left but hell and fear
A taste of all your victim’s hate!

The bonds they hold
the web you wove
the husk you will leave

corrupt the beauty
you create
a hell so soft inside

another touch
another day
another left tossed aside

a broken one
a trusting one
Now it’s time to DIE


I want you to fall to me
warping ’till you break
nothing left but hell and fear
A taste of all your victim’s hate!


The pieces left
they linger on
reminding you of what was

How many lives
each are the knives
Cut the truth into your skin

Reality
the final cut
that brings you wide awake

all are gone
who sheltered you
and now the pain begins

I want you to fall to me
warping ’till you break
nothing left but hell and fear
A taste of all your victim’s hate!

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Some Sun, Someone https://bassbastard.com/2026/04/07/some-sun-someone/ https://bassbastard.com/2026/04/07/some-sun-someone/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:50 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3907 Continue reading "Some Sun, Someone"

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The sun went down, and the reflection died with the new moon
I don’t know the answers, but they’re going to be inflicted on us soon

Breath like fire and blood is ice. Skin has its own mind.
Crawling out of the throat is the truth, letting sanity unwind.

If we had it to do over again, I would turn reality to ashes.
Instead, we stare into the horrors as the second hand passes

What flesh is this that parts so easily?
Embrace the blade and open to the breeze
The river runs warm
The source begins to freeze

The moon rose again and blankets the earth in reflected grace,
She turned her face away, letting pinpoints watch in her place.

Cataclysmic mother once torn to birth the barren daughter.
cries out in agony for the scars that evolution has brought her.

Penetrated and burned for the blood of those who died before
She hopes their suffering will end, and she can cry no more.

What flesh is this that parts so easily?
Embrace the blade and open to the breeze
The river runs warm
The source begins to freeze

We crave to claim and walk again on another mother in the sky
Who’s only child mishapen can barely stand to fly

Captured over to witness metal insects crawl her skin
The cycle of her sister will one day start again

But these ashes will drift forever on the cosmic ice
Considered the path but did not consider twice

What flesh is this that parts so easily?
Embrace the blade and open to the breeze
The river runs warm
The source begins to freeze

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Onyx in the sky https://bassbastard.com/2025/08/26/onyx-in-the-sky/ https://bassbastard.com/2025/08/26/onyx-in-the-sky/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:41:15 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3884 Continue reading "Onyx in the sky"

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Onyx taking what was given
a substrate smothered, suffocated
taking and forming
building a shining soul

Newly formed and lustrous
becoming a jewel from layers thrown
a broken threshold a flash
The lights in an instant are stole

both sides to the light
to be formed in the dark
to face layers and come out glowing

Destroyed in a moment
of ongoing torment
The running waters want to go not knowing

Another star blooms in tension
when the tether is cut
rising out of the horror we’re facing

the night folds around
and holds out the beauty
so we can see one last love embracing

Photo by gryffyn m on Unsplash

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Stolen Silence https://bassbastard.com/2024/12/13/stolen-silence/ https://bassbastard.com/2024/12/13/stolen-silence/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:22:34 +0000 https://bassbastard.com/?p=3839 Continue reading "Stolen Silence"

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Where do the words go that we never speak?
Where are the paths to the destination
the places we never seek

Cut off at the last moment
a plan in pieces when the picture was near complete
rain on watercolors when the day was bright
and words unspoken brought unrelenting night

One more day
a sunrise away
everything unraveled in confusion
so many words I wanted to say

If there was just one thing you knew
kept inside for the moment to be right
could have been that last handhold
for you to climb into the light

Cold now the hearth and gone the soul
never knowing but maybe wishing
still fallen before truth was told

structure broken
support was decayed too long

sunken into the sea

I was not a siren but should have sang my song

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