Black Twisted Limbs

Trapped and drowning under wires Shell holes filled with flesh Beyond the aid of fellow soldiers Moaning gasps, the last of breaths Torso slashed by shrapnel Paralyzed I fell Underneath the mud and metal Surrounded by remains Black twisted limbs Human forms burst and brutalized Carcasses littering this blood soaked ground Skeletal fingers reach for last requests To be remembered, their final behest A body digested by its own saliva In the mouth of the earth Innards spread throughout the marshlands A domain fed by gore Immersed in a nightmare of my own undoing My sanity lost in the bog Nostrils filled to the breadth by cancer As the mire gives birth Revealing new constructs, abhorrent cadavers Undeath created, a soldier possessed I see them rise, the bodies of the lost, the murdered, dismembered Abandoned men, dreamless sleep in winter's frost, no one will be remembered Once fallen in the battlefield, never seen again, cries for aid fall upon deaf ears Blood clots my throat and eyes turn white I drown in a pool of severed limbs A slow descent, I feel them clawing at my skin Fall into the dark of our lost cause As toxins penetrate, flesh and sinew contract Smoke and gas envelopes us all Surrounded by remains Black twisted limbs --- Black Twisted Limbs - Creeping Flesh