Behold the Sunset

Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables.
Tanka presents one image or mood in the first two lines, shifting to a related idea in the next three, commonly about sadness, love, the shortness of life, or the seasons. Unlike the Japanese Haiku, Tanka may use poetical devices such as metaphor and personification.

Behold the sunset!
A crimson red epithet.
Ends another day
Wrought with the futilities
Of a senseless life gone wrong.

I identify
Myself with the sun‘s setting.
One day falls into
Another chainless event
Of love lost and broken hearts.

Behold the sunset!
That crimson red epithet.
It begins and ends
For all of eternity
While my life comes to its end.