Ennui
Twelve weeks now
And the boredom
Has taken hold of my soul.
I try to empathise
With the daily death
But the numbers
Are too abstract to feel.
Maybe the virus needs
A Jack and Rose
To give it a human face.
Afghanistan only came to life
For me
With the death of Cuthbertson.
I taught him. The hundredth.
That was when
Death visited my door
And I awoke to it.