My chosen prompt for this week’s haibun is illusion.
I sit and stare at the phone.
I am stunned.
I was certain I had made adequate arrangements for the evening.
She said she was keen.
She was apprehensive at first.
I said it was to see a play a friend was performing in.
How could I have gotten it so wrong.
I am feeling that all to familiar gut wrenching pain of rejection.
Maybe it is my foolishness, revisited yet again.
What I thought was reality turned out to be anything but that.
only a fool dreams
reality can be so cruel
whatβs it telling me
Morpethroad 
She was the fool, not him π
Hi Anja, it’s all a matter of perception isn’t it. Thanks for the comment, I agree with you…she misses out.
Silly girl!!!! I am now trying to think of what to write….illusion or ecstasy…..what to pick.
Yes she was. I feel I would be repeating myself with ecstacy having written about morning glory earlier. Either way I find them great challenges. Good luck.
Thank you….think I need some wine and free up some words from my head. Maybe I will write for both prompts
Good luck I ran two blogs and did but I’ve decided to write only one that way I have time to write for myself.
I always write for me. I’m typically shocked when people like certain ones because I feel like others won’t understand them.
Like Anja and yourself perhaps it is she that is missing out on a golden opportunity..then again perhaps she felt sorry for him when he first asked and now couldn’t go through with it π¦ such dilemmas. π¦
I think you are right about her not going through with it. Though that doesn’t make him feel any better now does it. Such a tender male ego at stake.
I found this terribly sad. I believe you must be able to dream…sometimes it is all in the interpretation.
Thank you Patricia. I agree with your comments. I think I have written a few too many depressing hard luck pieces of late.
Cleverly Sad. Well done haibun with an excellent haiku!
Thanks Penny. I have also tried the other one but I wont link it. Temptation was too great to resist…
I can imagine ( yes I can …)!
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As you see I found the other one, as I saw it was commented on in you side bar.
Illusions are perhaps unfulfilled expectations…But who has set the bar too high? Kind of reminds me of that one dating commercial – you get to speak with someone for about 5 minutes (or 5 seconds) the bell rings and someone changes seats. The gal looks up to gasp at a painted face…not that of a clown, but of a punk rocker?
Thanks for your visit. I think more than just a few will choose both prompts π They are both full of intrigue and mystery.
Thanks Jules. This week there were two prompts that intrigued me.
Poignant with a lot of feeling.
Thank you Eric for reading.
Disappointment could be bitter and cruel..a touching haiku
Thank you for commenting and reading my work.
She missed out. but there is much sadness in your words.
Thanks Celestine, yes she did.
Absolutely, she missed out. Being let down, having your dreams shattered – it’s all part and parcel of life – a life well-lived. If we don’t try, we will never know. Although I have come infinitesimally close to wishing otherwise, I think that I would still feel the pain of loss, than not feel anything at all. So, in the moment, you might feel foolish for dreaming, in retrospect, I don’t think it’s a fool’s errand after all. Your haibun was very thought-provoking (as you can tell!).
Thank you Freya. Yours is a heart felt response. Pain and suffering are part of life, they can strengthen us though at the time they are soul destroying. Take care.