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A holy river runs through us –

the river of life –

With its twists and its turns,

and the sea out of sight.

(early morning misty light

scatter these dregs of the day away –

O! the unbidden tears!)

Flotsam and jetsam

of years pass me  by

I swirl in a whirlpool

I float in the sky.

(the azure blue heat-haze sky

of  childhoods , all gone by).

Down in the depths,

murky and drear,

I listen to the heartbeats

Taste the fear….

Let's swim against the current –

in a tangle of weed – 

Let's stop in a hurry – 

It's love we need.

Foating along at our bull-rushy ease

stare at the sun, 

begin slowly to bleed:

A life, undone,

Under old father sun.

• – Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, “cutting [the] belly”), sometimes referred to as harakiri (腹切り, “abdomen/belly cutting”, a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.