<?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[The Fin Whale that&#8217;s Waiting for an&nbsp;Echo]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Passing Through that Long, and Winding Seabed</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Kept on Wondering: Did You, Ever Get My Message?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Remembering when We Were Young</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>We’d Made a Date Every Single Summer, to Head Toward the North, to Soak in Some Cool Water</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, as the Winters Came, We’d Agreed, to Meet Back Up Someplace Warmer</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, I’d Loved Engaging in that Competition of Blowing Water Out of Our Holes with You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>To See Whose Was Higher and Who Can Outlast Whom</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Sometimes, When We Were Really into it</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>We’d, Swum Hard in the Oceans</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Then, Using ALL of Our Strengths, Kick Hard</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Pushing Our Bodies, Over the Surfaces of the Oceans</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Making a HUGE Wave, Sending the Waves that Rushed into the Shores</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Don’t Know When It’d Started Happening </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>But Those Cacophonous Sounds that Don’t Belong to the Oceans Increased</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, We’d Told One Another, that Those Sounds Were from, the Monsters</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>When We’d Learned that Day, that the Monster Was About to Arrive</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>All of a Sudden, it’d, Taken Our Friends from All Around Us</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=http://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2016/06/08/1/2238223.jpg&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=750&amp;exp=3600" rel="prettyPhoto[pp_gal]"><img src="http://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=http://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2016/06/08/1/2238223.jpg&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=750&amp;exp=3600" /></a>picture from the papers&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Called Out Your Name in a Panic, Again, and Again</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>To Get to a Place of Safety</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>But…to This Date, I Still Can’t, Hear Your Replies</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Sea Is Still as It Once Was</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Wave, After Wave, the Tides Came, and Went</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Waiting for Your Replies</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, is kinda environmental, isn’t it? Because of the whaling business is lucrative, humans don’t CARE if they hurt other living creatures, and, this is for the sake of the whales which were hunted, that weren’t supposed to have been targeted by humans…</p>
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