<?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[Hat, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As the Wind Started, the Hat on My Head Seemed to be Ready, to Leap Off of a Cliff</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>It’d, Wanted to, Dump Out All the Darkness It’d Carried</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Ad Embrace the Meaningless, the Miniscule Fates of the Weeds on the Grass Beneath</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>It Didn’t Like Being on My Head, to be, High Above Everything Else in the World</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>It Wanted to Become Like the Willows, Able, to Bend Back Down</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">not my photo&#8230;<img src="https://onethousandwordsaweek.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/hat_thumb7.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Looking to See, if All the Insects, the Flowers, the Grasses are, Dressed Warmly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Trash, the Spits on the Ground, They’d All Carried, Their, Separate Sorrows</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>It’d Not Know, that the Head It’d Placed in Its Wide-Opened Mouth </em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Was Actually, a Very Turbid Gigantic, Tear Drop</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I Sat the Wind Pass Between the Mountains</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://radenmasdira.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-lost-innocence.jpg" />not my sketch&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Knew that It’s Like a Bird, Thinking about, Returning to the Flock that’s, Circling on Top</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I Knew that it’d, Become, Too Annoyed, Too Disgusted with Me Already</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And, Being So Full of Pride, All I Could Do Was, Just, Bow My Head to It</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Moment I’d Lifted the Hat Up</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’d Realized, Hey, It Was Me, as a Child</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, the hat is actually, a metaphor for one’s own loss of innocence in the childhood years, and, because the narrator hadn’t worked on her/himself, to find that loss of innocence back, which would be why the hat wanted to leave the person’s head, and, in the end, the narrator decided, to let go of her/his own childhood innocence, and that, was when the innocence that s/he had lost since earlier on was, returned back to her/him.</p>
]]></html><thumbnail_url><![CDATA[https://onethousandwordsaweek.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/hat_thumb7.jpg?fit=440%2C330]]></thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width><![CDATA[353]]></thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height><![CDATA[330]]></thumbnail_height></oembed>