<?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[Funeral, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">On thoughts after DEATH, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Morning After Death</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Sunlight Still Came to Greet Us</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>By Our Windowsills</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Some Had Already Gone and Gone</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Those Potted Plant We Didn’t Have a Chance to Take Care of</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Were All, Rid of Last Night</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Those Who Loved Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>All Attended My Funeral</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>After the Tears</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>They’d Left Me Behind with Their Tears</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>With a Cheap, White Towel as Console to Take Home</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>After All, in Their Separate Lives</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>There are, Many More Difficulties</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>They Couldn’t, Manage to Bury Yet</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Dead Have it Easier</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Cemetery, the Household Registries, the Inheritance Taxes</em></p>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/554/files/2016/08/funeral.jpg" />gathered here today, to mourn someone we loved who&#8217;s lost&#8230;photo from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Etc., Etc., Etc.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>From Here on Out, Became, Unrelated to Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>All I Need, is to Focus, on Being DEAD</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Because Those Who are Still Alive</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Had Already Decided on Many Matters for Me</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>After They’re All Gone</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>My, and My Death</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Shall, Finally, Belong, to One Another</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Like that Long Nap I’d Not Had the Chance of Having for a Very Long Time</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Like that Ship that Sailed from My Dreams</em></p>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/i.huffpost.com/gen/1598975/images/o-FUNERAL-facebook.jpg" />mourning for who we&#8217;d lost&#8230;phoot from online&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>After So Many Years of, Being Adrift</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Finally, Found a Place to Stay</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>By the Sunny Shores</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, is finding that peace of mind after one’s own death, and the truth is, even IF you don’t find that peace of mind before you’d died, there’s, NOTHING you can do about it, you’re, already, DEAD!  It’s all about what you leave behind for your descendants, and those whom you loved and cared about that’s most important!</p>
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