<?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[Butterfly with the Broken&nbsp;Wings]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">I saw one this morn, on my way to get my newspaper, it was just, standing still, on the leaves of the trees outside, maybe, it’s resting, or perhaps, waiting, for death???  I wouldn’t know!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Butterfly with the broken wings, what happened to you, darling, did you barely get away, with your breaths, from being preyed on by a big bird (or a small one, who knows???)?  I can only imagine the trials you’d gone through, and, perhaps, you’d found that special butterfly boy or girl, and mated with her/him, and so now, your life is, about to end, and you’re just, laying down and die, I wouldn’t know…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><img class="mainImage accessible nofocus" title="檢視來源圖片" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3e/37/6f/3e376f55a41470e856634da7788283be.jpg" alt="butterfly with the broken wings 的圖片結果" /><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">not dead yet!  Photo found online&#8230;</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Butterfly with the broken wings, I see that you’d been, damaged, with the wings, torn off, jagged right ‘round the sides, and, you wouldn’t, make that good a specimen, so, chances are, that even AFTER you’d “passed on”, nobody’s going to give a DAMN about a little butterfly with the torn up wings like you, but know this, someone on this god DAMN F***ING (maxed out on ALL my “swear words”, remember???) EARTH gives a DAMN, I’d noticed you, struggling, for your final seconds to minutes of life………</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">Butterfly with a broken wing, you don’t have to worry now, you can just, swallow that, final breath in you, come what may, and, I shall, keep you in my heart, my mind, and my memories, of this, strange, but not-so-strange-at-all encounter I’d had with you, on my way, to get my morning papers today.</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">what happened to you, why did you get broken???  Photo from online&#8230;</span></span><img src="https://i0.wp.com/render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/medium/greeting-card/images-medium/butterfly-broken-wings-craig-vargas.jpg" /></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;">It’s weird, how I’d, noticed these things around me………</span></span></p>
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