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