<?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[January, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Before she grew up, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Born on January First, with a Very Weakened Health Status</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>In the Distant Skies, at the Trees Up Close, on the Peak of the Tower, in the Yard</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Up on the Roofs, at the Large Window Panes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>At that Clock, Tick-Tocking Away, Hung, on the Walls</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>With the Thin Features, and the Long, Slender Hair</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Thinned-Out Bosoms, the Slender Waistline</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>With Those Thinned Thoughts, and</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Thinly Emotions Too</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Turning Thirteen, at Birth, on January First</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The First Love Was Found</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Like that Thinly Fallen Snow, </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Silent and Unknown, as It’d, Hit the Ground</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Not Like Smokes, or Fogs Either</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Silently, Just Loved the White-Colored Feather-Filled Coats</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Dancing, in a Corner of the Cramped Up Corner of a Residence </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Outside of the Sceneries Outdoors</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Within My Tender Heart</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Those Years that Came and Went, Unknown to Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>She’s Forever Thirteen in January</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, Her Thirteen Years, Still Very Fresh and Young Looking</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Clean, and Beautiful</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Beautiful, and without Hatred</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, is someone, who’d, maintained her innocence, despite how messed up the world is outside of her, and, this is, before the girl grows up, she’ll always and forever stay, pure and uphold her childhood innocence, never losing that.</p>
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