This poetry is my therapy for getting out of the Army and dealing with everything I had done in the military. These 26 poems are words that came to me during a very difficult transition from soldier to civilian.

I had two DUIs in the Army and I have/had PTSD from my first fifteen-month deployment to Iraq from Jan. 5, 2006 to March 17, 2007. I lost a few friends and had one get disabled permanently. As a paratrooper at Fort Bragg, everything is manly. They just now started to let women do our jobs.

Many of my friends have killed themselves since they got out. One hung...