Even “not quite haikus” can get quite dark.
46.
Awake again,
It is the first day of
The rest of my life
47.
26,000 gone,
Less than 7,000 left;
Allotted span
48.
One wedding
And six funerals last year,
Life’s winter
49.
Trees also die
Of storms and fire and murder,
But not old age
50.
Orbits and seasons,
But in a cyclical world
A linear life