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Kill a man in Afghanistan, he stays with you

Fritz Hamnilton

Kill a man in Afghanistan, he stays with you,
The others too but not as much.
The first one eats your soul forever.

You try to deny him, but he’s always there,
torturing you till you’re also dead.
Kill a man in Afghanistan, he stays with you.

It would be the same in Iraq.
It’s better never to pull the trigger.
The first one eats your soul forever.

I can’t sleep thinking of the Afghan man I shot.
My eyes & heart are drowning in the blood.
Kill a man in Afghanistan, he stays with you.

He walks with you everywhere you go.
He is your entrails & your soul.
The first one eats your soul forever.

Go to war & watch your spirit die.
See the light go out & subsist in frozen darkness.
Kill a man in Afghanistan, he stays with you.
The first one eats your soul forever ...

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