<?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[Inside the Elementary School Yards, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">The loss of our innocence, still so very, quick, in less than a blink of an eye, it’s, totally, gone from us, and no matter how hard we’d attempted to grab hold, it’d still, slipped, right on by, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Childhoods of CEOs, Sucking on the Ice Creams</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Smiling Faces, Melted, into the Warm Sunshines</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Balloons Popped, as They Ought to, Like </em></p>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.skepticnorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/schoolyard.jpg" alt="查看來源圖片" width="550" />going from this&#8230;not my photo&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>How Those Daydreams Had, Started, Crying, with No Warning Signs</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Careless Over, the World, Watching</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>In the Cries, You Can Always Hear that Melody</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Flipping Things Backwards, Even the School Principals Had</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Difficulties Differentiating if It’s the Rains, or Talking in Sleep</em></p>
<p>to this&#8230;still not my photo&#8230;<img src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.xD5fWp1U4LjprG91qw_shAHaE8&amp;pid=Api" alt="查看來源圖片" width="615" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>No Matter How We’d Hopped Around, it’s Always the Month of May</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Naughty Children, Welcoming in the Bliss of Springtime</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>After Passing Through This Level, You’re Still Considered Young</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Those Innocent Eyes, Ran Around Like the Flickering Lights from the Fireflies</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This, is what childhood is, filled with so much innocence, and whilst we’re living in those years, we rarely realize how easily that innocence can get stripped from us, until it’s, too late, then, we’re all, adults!</p>
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