Love Tanka: The Expiration Date of Love

Has this love passed its expiration date?
It's not for consumption, so it's still okay.

Holding an uneatable apple for an hour,
to press the send button or not.

Burying a love on the summer shore,
returning to pick it up at the start of autumn.

💜 💕 💜 💕 💜

A Tanka came to mind this morning.
It's an apple poem.
Then, two more followed, so I put them together in an article.
They're fresh out of the oven, haha.

The third one ended up being like a continuation of a haiku I wrote before.

I held a collaboration project before.
Ryé and I had a haiku session.
That's the haiku I wrote back then.

In that haiku, I buried my love in the autumn sand along with my tears and memories, but in this Tanka, I went back to pick up the buried love lol.
But, even if the expiration date might be cutting it close, it hasn't passed its consumption limit, so I guess it's fine.
If anything, it should be aged and have a deeper flavor!
Or so I say, who knows lol.

Maybe it's a side effect of the steroids, but my motivation switch has gone somewhere and is currently missing.
One of the side effects is an impact on the mental state (depressive state or euphoria).
I don't have euphoria (haha), and I'm not in that kind of depressive state either.
I can barely manage the work and chores I have to do, but I can't do anything else at all.
I think I have to do them, but I can't find the motivation.
Before I know it, I'm just watching videos and melting away time.
If I'm going to watch videos, I should watch dramas or movies, but I can't do that either.
For me, dramas and movies are things I have to put some effort into watching.
That's why I'm just watching videos that don't really matter.

I thought of a Tanka for the first time in a while, so I took the opportunity to write this article.
It feels like I can't write a single article unless I put in a huge amount of effort.
It makes me realize again how such tiny pills can have such an impact on my mind and body.
I'm sorry for the delay in replying to the comments I received.
I'll try to write them as soon as possible!

Thank you for reading until the end today as well♪