Blood Ribbon

Ran for our lives.
Futility in wishful thinking.
Blood ribbons trailing hellhounds' marked scent.
Survive the nightmare.
Hide from the persistent hunt.
Blood ribbons trailing,
Stains on cement.

Caught unaware.
Stay alive.
Shrapnel bursts,
Wondering what will kill you first.
Panicked insane,
Terminal moraine.
Blood ribbons falling,
Casualties crawling,
Blood spilling from the drained,
Wove trails lead to the veined.

Bodies piling,
Napalm streams.
Charred remains,
Frontline graves,
Artillery screams through cratered buildings.

Blood ribbons falling,
Casualties crawling,
Blood spilling from the drained,
Wove trails lead to the veined.

You can't escape silk-woven fate.
Blood ribbon.
You can't cheat death while it steps on your neck.
Blood ribbon.