Tanka Pair: Calamity & Heartbreaking

Look at what you've done,
I thought that you were the one.
Instead you've hurt me:
you laugh when you see me bleed— 
You are a calamity.
...
What calamity?
You've always known my nature.
Don't act innocent;
heartbreaking has always been
my true personality.

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Tanka 1: Q & A

If I continue
             to wait in the falling rain,  
would you step outside 
             and join me even though you 
 too will get soaked to the bone? 
...
If you continue 
             to wait in the falling rain,
I will step outside
             and dance in the puddles that
embody all of our love.

Tanka 1

My father told me

to avoid you, for you were

a raiding vessel.

 

In fact, you are a dinghy,

small on I, the vast ocean.