Agony (Book 4): Premonition of Trouble

We present the fourth and final part of the saga about the Soviet Union’s secret war.

Even at the border and beyond the border

Our regiments stand, waiting

And over there, on the approach to the Afghan capital,

The ninth company fixed bayonets.

The ninth company handed in its party cards.

They crossed out names from memory.

Because if the fight drags on to dawn,

Then there was no company—it only dreamed itself…

Sometimes we call the war “work.”

And yet it was called war.

The ninth company marches through Kabul,

And there is nobody behind it.