The Vultures Dance

Time-like and the decaying bodies piled high cease to amuse the vultures now

 Single shots give the rebels confidence

 They attack in force

 Heavy machine gun fire from the west toss bodies into the air like rag dolls

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 Vultures tearing at eyes of the dead and dying

 Bullets to precious for mercy

 The night brings natures other cleaners

 Muffled scream heightens the reactions as night vision survey death in technicolour

 The ponderous wait continues

 Stroking metal like some sex provoking act

 Followed only by counting lives little savers, bullets of love

 The vultures dance impatiently

 The stroking intensifies

 Hairs stand erect as movement waves majestically towards its final objective

 A sudden calm unfolds

 Nature watches in awe as love is unleashed in her garden for the final time

 The call to bayonets now takes man down to his lowest form of savagery  

 Eyes now meet, screaming death the ferocious last act of men past the point of madness

 Blood flows as metal slices through skin and bone, swaying death the final frenzy as screams die the day's end

 Men cry as they survey the last atrocity of human barbarity

 Battle ended, vultures marvelled, feasting on the final meal

 Battle-hardened men massacre memories, leaving Celebrations a distant Country as blood-red hands refuse to wash