Bone Cathedral

Evil sundown, uncounted day
Miles from village, an open grave
Ash and steel, a week's decay
A lake of bones, splintered, unknown

Silver in the sand draws my eye
Dog tags wink in wilting light
Diaz, A Pos.- I know this skull
From when it was alive

Ice floods my veins, a sickening
The stranglehold of fear enveloping
I meet his naked grin, his eyeless gaze
A veil of flies gives flesh to fleshless face

No time to waste, no mark to leave
The vultures will return, make meat of me
I quickly clear a space, build a shrine
Inside my mind, where none survived