Five Haiku on modern warfare (2023)

I
yesterday a life 
still and insignificant 
yesterday alive

II
yesterday a voice 
small and hardly audible 
yesterday a song

III
yesterday a name 
nothing for a history book 
yet a name to call

IV
yesterday a face 
now a skull amid debris 
countless broken bones

V
yesterday a child 
now a thing in body bag 
zipped away and gone