End of All

Ushering in the new era of warfare
Modernized butchery
The double headed eagle sets its sights westward
Sharpened talons and beaks
Seismic shifts born out of mobilized armies
Marching towards their doom
Unaware of horrors that lie right before them
The trenches become their tomb

Toxic winds of poison gas
Carrying death to trapped rats
Carrion crows feed on what is left
The dead and dying lie scattered

Feet stuck in blood soaked grounds
Defense lines shotgunned down
Skeletal remains on landmines
Desolate grim end of times

Men reduced to cannon fodder
No honor in wanton murder

Destruction on a grand scale
Never before seen bleakness
Exploit every weakness

The Great War to end them all
It ended nothing at all
A promise of more pain

Propaganda to see
Dehumanized enemies
Expendable bodies
Keep feeding the warmachine

Limbs torn off by grenades
Left shellshocked as hope fades
Trauma and mutilation
Pure pointless devastation

Putrid stench of rotting corpses
Sacrificed without a purpose

Destruction on a grand scale
Never before seen bleakness
Exploit every weakness

The Great War to end them all
It ended nothing at all
A promise of more pain