Renga (Everyone! Yay!)

SapphireIris: This was a Renga, which is in tanka format, going around in a group making up different lines. We did three poems althogether, and this was the best one. It was one of two that had both classic elements of nature and impermanance. See if you can catch the Shinto references another cc put in there. I had nothing to do with it, honest!

My sleeves drip for you

You went and crossed the river

Without me always.

You tears were a precious pearl

And now mine are just the same.

Can I go on now?

Just being here without you?

No, my love says, thinks.

Now, you are forever gone

Like leaves that have blown away.

I am existing

However, I do not live.

I don't want to die.

But then I would be with you

And all my sorrows would end.