14 December 2012

Haiku 2012/349

a widening crack
a sudden break in the world:
afterwards, silence

2 comments:

Shushu said...

This brings me back to your beautiful haiku at another such moment, earlier this year.

Patrick J. Vaz said...

Thank you. How sad that we have had another such moment, earlier this year. I was definitely thinking of the school shooting, but didn't want to make it too explicit/topical. And I knew that much as I longed for it, the shooting would not be followed by silence, except maybe from the victims and in the hearts of their survivors.