Life in Her Haikus

Seek and ye shall find

the wonderful breath of life.

Grasp it, then breathe out.

**

“I found my true love!”

was her response to his eye

she caught on the train.
 

Though she be brilliant,

she has fallen for the boy

who can’t see the stars.

**

They move to the plains

so that their love may expand,

covering all space,

 

and at night they lay

sprawled under the sky they share:

she sees, he cannot.

 

On a peach tree she

sits and waits for her lover.

He never comes back.

 

Fiery eyes burning

brighter than the August sun.

A lifetime of red.

**

In response, she moves;

away from the city life,

away from the plains.

 

No longer does she

sprawl watching the bright planets

shift as she once did.

 

Instead she swims out,

occupying the ocean,

living with water.

 

Her eyes flutter shut,

the sun seeping through her hair.

She is one with life.

 

How does one find hope

so easily lost at sea?

“You swim,” she replied.