.
Huddled together
Freezing cold mud
Only room to stand
Sloshing in blood

Dark is this night
Moonless and overcast
Rain drizzles down
Dawn coming fast

Whizzing overhead
Bullets like before
Followed closely by
Echoing reports

Time to advance
Leaving trench behind
Kill someone's brother
Or husband this time

Running across the muck
Aiming wildly ahead
Hope I kill a dozen
Before I'm dead

Distance traversed
I remain alive, yet
Fingers and toes numb
Thrust with bayonet

Glancing back for help
Friends all faltered
Not a single one
Survived the slaughter

Facing my enemies
Starving and ill equipped
Single thought of home
Death takes me swift