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The Devouring Ruin
04:35
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The throes of winter
Such bleak and muddy cold
Besets our weary troops
‘Fore an onslaught yet untold
And so it has begun
Along the Meuse’s eastern banks
Enter a fray of boundless carnage
Of such destruction and dismay
Constant barrage
The bodies keep piling anew
Second attack
Leaves the dead bloated and blue
Razor wire
Divulging pallid sinews
Artillery fire
Blistered and broken in two
A rain of shell and fire engulfs in an infernal roar
And as the twilight came upon us it brought enemy outpour
And so we find ourselves
Besieged by tides of Allied steel
Commence this enemy engagement
What twisted mockery is this?
A land fecund with the remnants of our dead
Rooted by the corpses of those buried alive
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2. |
An Act So Vile
03:54
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Such lust once would be sated by the swansong of your heart
Paired with spectral rattle issued by Death’s harp
Such lust once would be sated by the cold gaze of your eyes
No longer bound by life’s constraints
Nor to its earthly lies
It’s not enough, the blood now calls for something new
I feel a strange new stirring as I watch your skin turn blue
I need to make you a part of me
We must needs become one
A feast devoured so lovingly ‘neath the setting sun
An act so unbecoming
The world outside won’t understand
An act so vile and sickening
Performed with doting hand
With this act we’ll become one into eternal life
A consummation of the flesh
Performed with fork and knife
In eternal fiery depths, a reservation ironclad
From such abomination, no redemption can be had
As teeth pierce your bloating corpse, such ghastly fate’s embraced
For I’ve made you a part of me, my lust this act did sate
An act so vile
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Nothing
04:12
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Left behind by armored beasts of war
The dashed remnants of those who dared traverse
The paths offered to tread and tread alone
Is this the yield of man’s progress?
A trampled distortion of his former self
To prosperity we make one step
While two alike head towards the grave
Left behind by armored beasts of war
A fresh banquet for eager soils
Left bitter by ruin offered from tread and tread alone
How they’ll feast upon this mangled heap of corporal decay
Seething, sordid pageantries of maggot-teeming rot
It all leads to nothing
These absurd clashes of steel
And with these armored beasts of woe
For nothing our fates are sealed
To be supplanted by crossed beams of freshly coated pine
Offering future generations the presence of a sadly absent glory
Promised to those willing to die for nothing
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Tides of Shell and Steel
04:05
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Surrounded
Each side teems with enemy obstruct
Such paltry shield this wooded expanse feels
As the vast ocean of sky beyond
Brings forth tides of shell and steel
Survival
The anguished cries of wounded men
So overwhelmed by the sickly stench of death
The turbid smoke of armament pollutes our each and every breath
Surrender
Such wretched avenue
Even faced with such coercion, we’ve no desire to pursue
Such a fitting grave this wooded expanse feels
As quarter is finally passed on
And like an ever flowing stream they near
Those tides of shell and steel
Tides of shell and steel
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Breached
03:38
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Skin stretches taut in shivering hope of the parting hook
As they guide the fetters led by powers unperceived
To set my nerves alight as piercing steel invades each niche and nook
Confining chains have set me free in grisly irony
This penetration fills the void possessed since my first breath
With glee I writhe in a torment to which you would prefer death
As my violated flesh was once partition to my being
So too has line been breached ‘tween agony and ecstasy
Upon my pending final gasp no respite will be wrought
With one last wrench, my blood will rain upon your stunned visage
A depraved jest of salted tears from which you’ve felt redeemed
But what of redemption when you can’t forget what you have seen?
This penetration fills the void possessed since my first breath
With glee I writhe in a torment to which you would prefer death
As my violated flesh is all that’s left of my once fruitful being
So too will you be torn ‘tween agony and ecstasy
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Be it one last stifled gasp ‘midst bombardment’s hasty graves
Or blood-choked dance of death atop the outstretched bayonet
I won’t let the Reaper’s sickle pave my lonely path
A press upon the trigger will settle his outstanding debt
Unimaginable horrors witnessed ‘tween these pits of woe
My spirit’s died a thousand deaths
My body’s functions just for show
I’m but a wraith, a sickly phantom
Bereft of my life’s zeal
To shed this earthly husk would be no worrisome ordeal
I’ve clasped the putrid offal spewed from comrades’ gaping wounds
I’ve watched the verve diminish from the eyes of those I’ve killed
I need to lead the way along the road towards my tomb
I want to die
I need to die before more blood is spilled
Here I dangle gleefully at the cusp of the abyss
The taste of cold blue steel peppered with August’s morning mist
Endless void of black preferred to what this day may bring
Within this catacomb, I shall abandon everything
Catacombs of Entrenchment
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Belleau Wood
05:22
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And here we hold for now
Ordered to dig, stand, fight
As flowing fields of grain yield
Assault of boundless might
As the enemy bursts forth
With its piercing steel reserve
Night will stow our matched retort
Their force be matched to strike the nerve
The calming kiss of summer winds
As they dance from tree to tree
Belies the sight of Belleau Wood
Plagued by lost humanity
Through waves of boundless charge
Six in turn with bullets’ gale
The dead, our fees for war’s success
The wood is held, to what avail?
Through the wheat with bayonets fixed to strike
Pierce their flesh with no remorse, go forthright
Behold the sight of Belleau Wood
The dead grace the ground where we once stood
The calming kiss of summer winds
As they dance from tree to tree
Belies the sight of Belleau Wood
Plagued by lost humanity
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