<?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[My Good Friend, Jing, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">On loss, in memoriam, of a close friend, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>My Good Friend, It’d Been, Many Years Since  You’d Become</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>An Eternal Butterfly Flying Against the Wind Currents</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Quietly, Appeared, Inside My Memories</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Your Heart is Pure Like the Lotus Flower</em></p>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/470151186-family-and-friends-attended-the-funeral-of-gettyimages.jpg" />the lives that the peroosn had touched, all came, to pay their final respects&#8230;photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Accompanied by the Green Smokes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Using the Colors of the Clouds and Skies</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Putting on Your Makeup of Watercolor and Calligraphy</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>That Blue-and-Violet Inspiration</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Soaked Up the Dimmed Times</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>That Path of Your Heart Being So Optimistic</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Who Will Know of Your Hidden Sorrows &amp; Pains</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>In This Rolling World</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>You’d Always Kept to Your Quiet Corners</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As the Wind and Sand Stopped Blowing</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Kept, that Purest Form of Persistency</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>But, You Couldn’t, Withstand the Rash Wind and Strong Storms</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>As You Left Us Your Weakened Backside</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Made the Entire Month of June Cried</em></p>
<p><img src="https://lifetheobstaclecourse.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/9bad7-militaryburial.jpg" />photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And Now, Everything in the World Became Unrelated to You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Sighing on How Little Time We’d Come to Share</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>You’d Used Your Brushes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Painted Out the Long-Lasting Years</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Looking at Your Art, I’m Reminded of You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Your Kind Heart and Open-mindedness</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>You’re, Still, the BEST</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, is memory of the poet’s close friend, and, from these words, you can tell, how much love and connection they’d shared with one another, but now, the person this poem is directed to is no longer here, and so, the poet wrote these words, as way, of smoothing over the nostalgia of missing her friend.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p style="text-align:center;">
]]></html><thumbnail_url><![CDATA[https://i0.wp.com/cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/470151186-family-and-friends-attended-the-funeral-of-gettyimages.jpg?fit=440%2C330]]></thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width><![CDATA[]]></thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height><![CDATA[]]></thumbnail_height></oembed>