Awful cough lasted nine days,
and he thought it will never go away.
But soon it went away
and he prays it will never come back.
Awful cough, which lasted nine long days
and nights. No, it wasn't the virus,
it was something else.
Something more suspicious,
something more frightening than that.
Something which can't be detected,
diagnosed, and cured.
Awful cough, it eventually went away,
but it scared him to his bones,
that's for sure.