<?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[Quietly, I&#8217;d, Gone]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Coming to terms with death here, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Will Not Put on the Expensive Suits</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Nor Live in that Stay Built with Silence &amp; Cold from the Stone Bricks</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Nor Would I Want to Rouse My Friends, or Relatives, No Need for the Ceremonials</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>No Shrine, No Sadness Nor Sorrows</em></p>
<p><a href="https://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=https://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2018/04/17/1/4656545.jpg&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sw=0&amp;sh=0&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=1050&amp;exp=3600" rel="prettyPhoto[pp_gal]"><img class=" lazyloaded" title="圖／萬家珣（高雄鳳山）" src="https://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=https://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2018/04/17/1/4656545.jpg&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sw=0&amp;sh=0&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=1050&amp;exp=3600" alt="圖／萬家珣（高雄鳳山）" /></a>the photo of the man who wrote this passage, from UDN.com&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Just Spared My Ashes Across the Deserted Mountains</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Someplace Quiet</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Will be Taking in the Spirits of the Mountains &amp; the Creeks</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And be Nourished by the Tree’s Pythoncidere </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Soaking Up, in the Scented Mud</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Hearing the Birds’ Songs</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Quietly, I’d, Left</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I Don’t Know Where I’m Headed</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>the Underground Hell</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>or the Heavens, High in the Skies</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>if Karma Exists in that World</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Unknowingly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I will, Keep on Blessing You all with Bliss and Good Health</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">And this, is how this elderly person wants to leave the world, to keep on blessing the ones he’d cared about and loved dear, to be one with the natural world, to return to dust, and this, is how death should be, everything is returned, to the very beginnings, ashes to ashes, and dust, to dust.</p>
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