Sandra Martyres - Loneliness - A Senryu Suite

on a damp dark night
in flickering candle light
she counts the shadows

the patter of rain
on her windowsill disturbs
her concentration

a lonely victim
of old age in a fast world
the choice is not hers

Sandra Martyres

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