Day Twelve: Tanka

"A tanka is a Japanese form poem closely related to haiku. The tanka is a 5-line poem that generally contains 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, 5 syllables in the fourth and 7 syllables in the fifth."
I grabbed that description from the Poetic Asides by Robert Lee Brewer

So here goes, never been too great at haiku but this is definitely a first.

Today my simple
daydream evaporated
and withered, swirling
light and shade toward the sky
and burning truth, haloed sun.