<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t Come to My&nbsp;Funeral]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">From a blog in Chinese I’m subscribing to right now, translated…</p>
<p><em>Don’t come to my Funeral. Because there is not, will not EVER be, one.</em></p>
<p><em>It’s not that I’m immortal, it’s just that, I don’t want to bid anymore farewell.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’d never wondered how long I will live</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Had never feared, the concept of death either</em></p>
<p><em>It’s just that, when I found my love, for you all, and her too</em></p>
<p><em>To be, so passionate, so out of control</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’d started, fearing death</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And now, I’m always fearing death constantly </em></p>
<p><em>A few days ago, it was, my maternal grandfather’s day of death</em></p>
<p><em>That day, I was, having so much fun</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>That I had, completely, forgot, about that that, was the day, that my grandfather had died</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Then, at the moment when I finally remembered, in the depth, of the night</em></p>
<p><em>I felt this, sudden onset of panic, found myself, suffocating slowly</em></p>
<p><em>Turns out, that I had, finally, accept, the truth, that he’s, completely gone</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And I had, said my final farewell to him, completely</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Goodbye.</em></p>
<p><em>If I had, died</em></p>
<p><em>How long would it take you all, and you, to accept, that my timely demise as finalized</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>A year? Or two?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Or maybe, sooner, a few weeks, or just, in days?</em></p>
<p><em>I don’t want to, say goodbye</em></p>
<p><em>Funerals are, a pointless kind of rituals</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>With you, as the protagonist</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>But only in, one picture</em></p>
<p><em>I wish there not be a funeral for me</em></p>
<p><em>So if I’d died one day</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>You all, and you, don’t even bother</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Because, whose hearts, will I stay in</em></p>
<p><em>Had already been, decided whilst I’m still living</em></p>
<p><em>I don’t want to say farewell</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This would be the writer’s view on death, and the rituals surrounding death, and, he is right too. Because by the time you’d died, who you are had already been, set up, in people’s minds, and, the eulogies those who’d come, may or may not be how they really feel about you.</p>
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