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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