Poems of a gruesome sort

This first one I wrote as lyrics to one of my songs. I'm not a singer myself, and I don't know why I wrote them when I can't sing... But here they are anyways.

Bodies are laying all over the ground
Their stillness is shocking they don't make a sound
The gun's in my hand and I don't know why
This dream will not end, in it I'll die
So I am...

Stuck here a-waiting in putrid palace
Drinking the blood from my father's chalice
People are coming and people are going
Names are a-drifting and reasons a-flowing
Down to the...

Ground is a-shaking with baby's footsteps
Rounding the corner into his last steps
Staring the barrel straight in the eye
Explosions are echoing through the sky
So I am

Free. Free to be me. Free now to see.
See that I'm free...

Freedom at last 'cause my family's gone
There's no one around who can tell me I'm wrong
I said I'd have vengeance and now it's taken
Vengeance is taken now I can awaken
From this bad dream...

This next one is a little more random and it may sound really bizarre, but I thought it would sound really nice spoken over the first song on my 'album' (if it can even be called an album, but whatever...)

Behold when I beheld the gate
It's vision broke across my pate
The image of it burned my eyes
The night was pierced with my cries
I looked unto the other side
and saw myself there, with pride
I gazed backwards towards the gate
Words were written o'er its face
The words I remember to this day still
They spoke to me, with thoughts and will
It said to me, where this gate stands
Marks the border between two lands
One of them is bright and true
The other is like me and you
Unfortunately where you now stand
Is the latter, that cursed land
Full of fun and carefree stuff
The likes of which, you'll never have enough
Mark this day, remember it well
As they day you walked through the gate of hell

I put one foot before the next,
but soon I grew very vexed
I was, after all, quite alone
In this place I would now call my home
I wondered aloud what the future held in store
No sooner this than "say no more"
The words they broke upon my ears
My mind then doubled its conscious fears
Before me stood what I thought was a man
If I had any sense, from him I would have ran.
But seeing as my current state
was quite forlorn, in its way
I listened to what he had to say
The words still haunt me to this day
He said to me "My dear old friend
You look scared, and full of dread
But I can help you with your plight
For I have been given future sight
I can see what will come next
and I can see you're quite perplexed
You wonder where it is you are
but I can show you, far and far
That where you stand is the better place
Compared to the life your memories will trace
Come with me, you'll see I'm right
I already know it, my clever sight
Has shown that you'll fit in quite well
In the land on the other side of the gates of hell.

I followed him, I had no choice
but still my fears, I did voice
He refuted them, every one
Saying they would be undone
When I saw that my future was
I still was nervous, and with good cause
He took me then to a circus tent
And told me it was there to prevent
The prying eyes whose greed would end
The fortunate fortune's dividend.
He peeled back the entrance, sending me in
And told me to make myself comforted, then
Formally opening with a musical stanza
Welcomed me to the voodoo fortune telling extravaganza


Anyways... These two might seem really dorky, stupid, immature, ridiculous, or a combination of all the above, but to me they hold special significance because they mark periods of my life and music. The second one is kind of ridiculous, I know that... But it leads into the next piece well. So... Yeah..... I would love to hear comments, criticism, hateful remarks... Anything. :)