<Tanka> The arrogance of squeezing even words into thirty-one syllables, and my cute self (Uta no Niwa, Theme: 'Arrogance')

When I received the theme and thought about what arrogance might be, it was <me, writing Tanka>.

Squeezing words into 5-7-5-7-7, I wondered, what on earth am I doing?

Why, I wondered, is there any need to force it into 5-7-5-7-7 at all?

Who am I to be trying so hard to cram words, which should be free (?), into thirty-one syllables that no one even knows who started?

At the same time, I also thought this.

People who count on their fingers to make Tanka are cute, they are dear.

I wrote exactly what I thought.

But, calling myself <cute me>... seriously...