<?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 Camelia of Yesterday, No Longer, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">On loss, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Camelia in Full-Bloom, Tilted its Head</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Thought All Night———</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>It’s the Rain, the Dew, the Tears</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>None of These </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">slowly withering away after being in full-bloom, NOT my photograph&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/img00.deviantart.net/04b7/i/2011/175/a/9/withering_away_by_sup3rnaturalgirl1010-d3jw7j6.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Thought Overflowed, and the Moon and the Sun</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Couldn’t be Kept in</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2332/2492019793_9c58a84d40_z.jpg" />losing their colors, as well as life too!  Not my photograph&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>My Day and Night, and All My Yesterdays, What Couldn’t be Found</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Yesterday Before Yesterday, Along with, the Countless Withered Away</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Petals, along with</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>That Crookedness Along with the Yesterdays that Were No Longer Yesterdays, They’re All, Gone Away</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>From Yesterday Now………</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, there’s, that sense of loss here, as everything passes by too quickly and you can’t, hold on to the moments you want to keep intact, and everything just slowly, gets away from you, slips right out of your hands…</p>
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