a war raging inside

freezing cold on the outside of my shell

 

flames melting, burning my inner world

 

my body a bridge leading from my soul to the outer world

 

a monster trapped inside me

 

tries to violently tear their way outside

 

at the end of the bridge lay the battlefield

 

beneath the greenery and dark green trees

 

not only a forest

 

a cemetery

 

dried blood melted into the earth

 

bones buried deep within the ground

 

weapons and rusty armour 

 

buried soldiers

 

bones of brave horses

 

carriages

 

grenades

 

bombs

 

shell casings smothered

 

bullets clattered among the brown sandy ground

 

reminiscent of wild rice

 

brown and gleaming splatters

 

an expressionist’s painting

 

hidden away from curious eyes

 

only alive in the imagination of its corpses.