Wolves

Distant, but the recollection grows many miles, but closer still the memory

Grey shadows lurking that sweep and carve through moonlit night

Now fall in my semi-conscious panged regression

Ravenous jaws agape-claws protrude the sward

Denizens of the forest baring teeth and snarl

Starving eyes aglow, piercing through thickening mist to see the game at bay

Watching the gate, in wait like prey

For broken stillness from the shaded thick

Since witnessing the infants slain

Watching from a distance in helpless horror far away

Side by side, unhallowed stride

Ten thousand miles wide

Though hunger burns in all things, it's conquest burning these

Apologies dead for drive

Fleeing the scene, fleeing the scene, I could hear them sing

With dead breath of relished flesh, we serenade the night

With scabbed claw we deadly aggressors stalk the land in search of more

No one at all escapes this plague, this decimation

Running till death, set free, roaming-no one will stop it

Moving from town through country viciously to the next

Our town, now I'm found surrounded

As if on command-a snarl, a twitch-they frenzy flood for early pick

Reserve an inch, an arm, the head, secure a claw hold, tooth niche

Blood squirts and drips black oozing slicks from skull born holes to licking, lapping lips

Shredded skin unzipped, sacks of organs spill

The sickening sound of crunching, breaking ribs

Crawl helpless child, mutilated and disfigured

Dismantled in an instant, landscapes are re-carved

Buried under bodies, left in a decomposing field to rot

I lie awake, though strength is drained as pooling blood collects near severed limbs

And visions stain my wounded brain of the horror brought when the wolves came into town

Fatigue, like flocks of ravens, dispels-replaced by fear

Wailing howls fill the sky

Fleeing the scene, fleeing the scene, I could hear them sing

With dead breath of relished flesh, we serenade the night

With scabbed claw we deadly aggressors stalk the land in search of more

Where prey is found, I will be found

Alarming numbers howling the sound

The dead breath serenade

We stalk the land in search of more