Can you do it?

Can you end the pain?

What takes more courage,

To end it all or face another day?

Is it easy?

Or will be hard?

Can you take that step?

Or is it easier to walk away?

Can you taste it?

The cold hard barrel

Sharp upon your tongue

The taste of steel and old gunpowder.

How will it feel?

After it’s over?

Will the pain be gone?

Is it the end or a new beginning?

What will they say?

After you are gone?

Will they even miss…?

Another vet who found his own way home?