Life's Challenges

                                                                                     Attribution: Michael Kooiman
Image: Royalty Check from a Music Publisher
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

On the white sand

Of the beach of a small isle

In the Eastern Sea

I, my face streaked with tears,

Am playing with a crab             -   Ishikawa

Lost in thoughts I see

ships full of hope and goodness

there for my picking

Sadly the waters beyond

made it just impossible

Reflecting sadly

Of fortunes that wriggled  through

my hands all these years

What have I done wrong to be

deserving of miseries

Chev at CARPE DIEM's Tanka Shrine#2 provides a sad tanka of
Ishikawa to be matched with an equally sad response of our own
To be shared with d'Verse's OpenLinkNight week#123