<?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[A Road that Runs on Endlessly, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">In memoriam of a mentor, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I’d Once, Marched into that Sturdy Citadel</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>With the Souls, Fallen to, the Depth Below the Sleeping</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>And, How Did Those Souls Lost in Wars</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Imprinted onto Your Passages Day and Night</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">wonder where this road&#8217;ll lead???  Not my photograph&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/farm4.staticflickr.com/3337/4644716385_9739c128da_z.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Making the Poetry Swim Back and Forth, in Those, Troubled Days</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Life and Death, are Merely</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Symbols to You, isn’t it</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Your Pride, Had Made All Who’d, Passed Through Your Garden</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Felt that Sturdiness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, You’d, Shown Cares &amp; Concerns Towards the Darkness Ignored by Human Nature</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As You Stood There, Animated on the Podium</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Deciphering the Codes from a Mysterious Poem</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As if, You are, the Center of the Universe</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Then, You’d, Retreated, Quietly, into, Your </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Own Invisibilities Again</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/02/2543A5FA00000578-2936366-Long_and_winding_road_The_Stelvio_Pass_is_a_mountain_pass_in_nor-a-29_1422894685221.jpg" />winding and twisting, not easy to navigate through, kinda like life, not my photograph&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>You’re Like an Opened &amp; Broad Tower of Death</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Sturdy and Erect in the Rising Sun, Looked Upon by the Masses</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The World Held its Breaths Because of You. In the Silent Stares</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Exchanging the Meanings of This Life &amp; the Next</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Are You Really, No Longer in the Wings Now?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Is This, Locked-from-the-Inside Transparency, Really Enough, to Keep Your Wildness Bound?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>As I Turned the Page, the Ninth Day, Still Flowed Along</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And, it’d, Finally, Dawned on Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>That There Will Be This Road that Winds on Forever, for You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, despite how death had taken this master in life, his poems still, continued, to be read, and that, is how his legacy keeps getting carried on and on, and on…</p>
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