So Will My Sins

by Ryan Gilligan

If I die in this desert so will my sins,

No more memories to haunt me no demons within,

No medals I earn here would be worn at all,

No war stories told to drunk friends sitting at a bar,

I wouldn't see the faces of everyone I killed,

The world would be better off without me to help fill,

Bury me here in the Arab sand,

Let me rot to nothing with my rifle in hand