Dull iron fetters chafe marrow through flesh
Blood bonds with rust and scarlet with maroon.
Fumes of necrosis trail a single file
And pollute the lungs of a dead platoon
That will carry on, even to the dearth.
Carrion, without the comforts of earth.

From the putrid mass rises dissonance
Dissidence as a pulse throbs out of sync
Eyes grasp at greenery and life outside
The death march to decay in this chain link.
Shackles clank emptily on trodden stone
As a broken body drags on its own.

Harpooned by freedom and reeled in by hope
She steels away through an enlivened path.
Alert in intoxication by life
Her bellows taunt at her past to loose wrath.
Echoes bring none. She is truely reborn.
Her free footfalls will hit haven by morn.

Written By Raucous