<?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[Before Forgetting, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Fireworks at the End of the Year Dissipated</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>In the Forgotten, Deep Abyss Now</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I’d Rushed to Plant a Birch</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Before I too Forget</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Envisioning it into this, State of Grace</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Flowing Freely Like the Wind, Clean like the Clouds</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">where does it lead???  Not my photo&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/open-desert-road-kathleen-heese.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Before I Forget My True Love</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Shall, Carve Out the Stones</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>For it to Become, the Repetitions of Day &amp; Night</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>For it to Become, that Constantly Overflowing &amp; Receding Tide</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Before I Forget the Journeys</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Shall, Finish Up Those Incomplete Trips</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Whether it be that I Shall, Get Off at the Far-Off Stations</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Or Staying Put, in that Nostalgic Rendezvous</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Shall, Stack Up the Words</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/96376/96376,1204938469,1/stock-photo-a-child-s-teddy-bear-abandoned-on-the-side-of-a-busy-road-10141363.jpg" />left&#8230; not my photo&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Into Fortresses of Poetry</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Before I Forgot the Words Completely</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>So Tight, that the Wind Can Even Pass Through it</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Forgetting had, Become This Brand New Sort of </em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Ignorance and Blank Pages</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>I’d Become, that Homeless Cloud</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Paralyzed in the Skies of the Cities</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>After That Night I’d Swum Out of the Cabin</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Being Cold and Alone, Lost, in the Darkness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This, is a sort of a loneliness, that we all must cope with, because we will all, one day, be gone, and, what, is it that’s, left behind of us??? We are the ones to decide that!</p>
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