“You know”, he confided, “I want to walk in front of a truck. My little girls would be much better off. I am the reject of the family. My wife tells lies. I tell lies to cover up my illness, to avoid the shame.”
Christmas day
gifts of all colours
and shapes
I am impressed: a stunning haibun actually!
Moving, with a distant, ereie quality that does not diminish it's impact.
That's excellent…
Thank you John, Dirk and @andreochka for your high praise of my haibun. I am still a novice but I am enjoying my Japnese form poetry journey.