The smell of death
You’ll never know
Caused by the fallen
Down below
She takes you
In her suffocating hug
While she silently swallows
The holes you have dug
The men that have died
Now reduced to mud
As she takes the rest
Of the life you may got
She won’t have mercy
She’ll whisper her song
To the wounded and dying
That here just don’t belong
The land of the living
The sky of the dead
For you’ll never remember
When Death and you met
This poem was inspired by a friend of mine, Nick Geerling, who has a Second World War German trench in his backyard. I stayed there last Thursday, together with my brother and himself. It was an amazing experience and above all he documented the whole day for his youtube channel, link below.