Thank you guys, for your words of comfort and sympathy. I know he was only with me for a few days, and that fish are so fragile and can easily perish, but he was still a living creature, a very beautiful one at that, and it has been so very draining and difficult to watch him decline. I kept hoping so very much I could get him through it and he'd be happy and healthy again, but it just was not to be.

The weird thing is, my husband must have been on the same wave length as me today, because even though he didn't know about little Haiku, he brought me home a dozen red roses tonight, just because. He hasn't done that in years. I wonder if he somehow picked up on my sadness from afar.