<?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[Scatter My Ashes Beneath the Trees, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.beijinggongmu.com/uploads/allimg/120918/16000643K-0.jpg" alt="" />not my photograph&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Every Tree in the Wilderness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Are the Folks Who Were Never, Called Back</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>It’s Easy, to Wait, Endlessly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Doubting Oneself</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Until the Self Had, Turned into, a Plant</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Before the Countdown</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Everybody Gathered </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Discussed, How S/he is to Keep Oneself Hidden</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A Person Started Imitate the Fog</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Soft and Mild, Easily, Penetrated</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>One Mimicked the Grounded Dusts</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>In the End, He’d Managed to, Successfully, be Closer to the Universe</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>You’d Found a Hiding Place Inside that Box</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Lay There, Steadily</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Actually, We All Knew, Where You’d Hid</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Just Didn’t Want to, Bust Your Covers</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>We’d Pretended to Look for You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Written Our Letters to You Too</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Pen that Burned Like the Flames Had</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Smoked All the Words Black</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>We’d Sent Someone to Recite</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Aloud, the Documents You’d Left Behind</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Voice was So Monotonic that It’d Become, the Sound of the Trees, Getting Chopped Down</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Then, We’d, Planted You, Back into the Earth</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Each and Every Year Now, We Wait, for You, to Start Budding</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Waiting for You, to Become, that Warm Tree</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This would be, a good way, to remember someone who’d died, and, spreading the ashes onto the earth is actually a very good way, to keep the life cycle going, because the ashes of the ones you love will become nutrients for the trees, and, the trees will grow each and every year, and, the individual who’d died really is still alive, because her/his ashes had become, a part of, something living, a tree!</p>
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