Kill! Here I walk down this godless trench where the corpses sink forever into
shallow marshy grounds. Ican't remember confronting these extreme forms of
violence. Knee-deep in mud, where skies weep leaden tears and blood.
It's hard to breathe within this thick cloak of sulphurius mist, conjuring
slaughtering soldiers into sickening silhouettes. From this forsaken battlefield
no soul can be dismissed. As if the devil is in charge, givin orders from the
dephts of the abyss.
Goddamn! It's coming hard. Fire fight and waves of bombardments blowing soil,
bone and flesh apart. Running to survive maybe the last private still alive.
Suddenly it stops! I turn and see no enemy. There's nothing behind me.
I can't believe my eyes. I can't believe what I see. A timeless, frozen scenery
where nature stands still! Except for me!
So strange to see a still image of this infernal reality. Staring at shrapnel
and bullets on an incomplete journey. When suicide burdens my mind, I'm startled
by a horrible screaming from behind. Luring me to a spot where a friend of my
platoon walked into an ambush, he screamed: "Please kill me! Chralie's coming
soon!"
My 1911 is too loud, that's why I reach for the knife. Then, again, hesitation!
I cannot take his life!
Goddamned fucking gooks! He's captured by the enemy. Dragged away for days of
torture, screaming these last words at me: "You son of a whore should be
terrified! In this hell I'll wait for you!"
And right before I step on that mine I ask myself: "Did he just speak the
truth?"
Briefly I comprehend, all this time I was damned. His grudge keeps me in hell
for eternity. Every time I die he waits for me.
This is my destiny...
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