thoughts on thoughts ... my take on haiku / senryu

Flashing Light

Flashing Light

A light is flashing

Through the tears blinding my eyes

You got attention

The shrouded body

of the man you used to be

Now gone forever more

You didn’t think this

through, the end result, final

Point of no return

What of those behind

Fatherless children, wife too

young to be alone

You selfish bastard

You took the easy way out

What if we all did?

The flashing light, gone

No more tears left to fall, we

still have to go on

July 8, 2013