Memory Burn

Bludgeoned bleeding

Burning screaming

Barely alive

Cattle feeding

Hardly eating

Waste of life

Forest sweeping

Slowly creeping

Look in their eyes

Bullets meeting flesh with teeth to rip out their insides

Rage

Is a shadow beyond me

Sorrow

Is what I will unleash

It's time the fabric is coming apart

I am now one with pain

This focused mind must guide me through

Smoking village torn and pillaged

Run for their lives

Killing women shooting children

Must stay alive

I find one dead gunshot in head

I look in his eyes

With chewed off lips he smiles at me

I'm coming apart

Burns remind me I am here

Can't count the dead can't count the years

Into the ditches as darkness falls

I can smell them crawling through the pits of hell

Like the sun the explosions sear the sky

Burning brightly it's shrapnel tastes my flesh

I'm ripped apart

I have been ripped