6

Excruciating

Unable to live without

A tolerance built

Sympathy is disgusting

Empathy is limitless

7

Red talons dig deep

Tom’s hawk buried into me

Fire night dancing cry

Bare an arrow sight unseen

Sins disappear in water

4

In every moment

A lasting whisper resides

Melancholy sigh

Forever not knowing you

Forgetting everything said

4

Forced to live unknown

Desperately needing someone

Forever broken

Unwanted by everyone

Living my life as myself

3

My life is nothing

Having been completely stripped

Emotionally

Everyone lacks empathy

The perception is…squirrel

4

Fighting my beliefs

Seeing no way to return

Rejected inside

Emotional subjection

Justification, released

4

Darkened by no one

Eclipsed an emerging sun

Anthology, sins

Tortured, of a deprived soul

Hired to consume us all

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Fun fact: each of the first letters spells the topic of the Tanka…
3

I have relapsed life

Connections are not sober

Nothing mentally

Emptied my bottle again

I cannot dry myself drunk

4

In the grasp of white

The chill finds its way inside

A linger of warmth

Subtle feelings of human

A frightful reminder, death

3

Lips pressing tight, sealed

Hands mapping out, discovered

Whispers so soft, moans

Being vulnerable, nude

Intertwined together, warmth