war is routine

reflex

reaction to everything,

from sleep to 

each round fired,

all the worse alone

even with mothers memorys

and the bowman whispers,

one office tower

1000 movement signs on sensor,

they all scream

all howl,

blow a building?

id feel better

but call down storms unknown,

walk in slow

into the thick green fog

purely using sensors

still shocked

nearly hitting buildings,

under foot of the bow man

i hear metal crunching 

and wet splats...

wolf so alone in this toxic nightmare,

looking up,

is that a mech?

whispering through static floods all channels...

through the gloom 

stumbles a mech

arm missing

breach in cockpit,

it stumbles

whipping its remaining arm

firing laser blasts,

i duck being a metal and glass ruin

the bowman shows the other mech has a link like 

i use,

"gotta kill the meat

even if its not human"

spin torso half turn

firing my own lasers,

2 shots hit the torso

i see the power core spark

through breached armour,

one more

the thing explodes

radio channels screaming,

not safe

hard run to the map marker the bow man keeps pinged,

through building after building

crash through,

half way there a shape falls on my cockpit cover,

human? cant tell the clouds and fog too thick

i pull out my torch and shine it at the point i think is a head,

even through the hardened glass and its metal weave

the face i saw, 

if it was human once i prey death took them before that change...