"AFGHANISTAN"
by s.p. burke
I am recklessly heartbroken.
I gave you all my better years.
As I sit down to write this
I find myself choking back the tears
For the men I've lost
From the time it cost
And agonizing pain
Just so we can be at square one
Of two thousand and one
Again.
s.p. burke is about to retire after 20 years as an intelligence analyst in the US Army. Follow him here. Listen to our Savage Wonder podcast episode with him here.
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