<?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[The Ocean, Filled with Tears, for Those Whose Lives Were Lost on the Taroko Train&nbsp;Accident]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[
<p class="has-text-align-center">Eulogizing, memorializing, the lives that were, lost, in the train accident, translated…</p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>The Tears Filled up the Oceans</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>The Winds Kept Coming in from the Pacific</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Kept Calling All of Your Names Aloud</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Don’t Forget the Way Home, on the Mountain Routes</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Remember the Rice Paddies and the Broccoli Flowers of the Fields</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>The Earthquake is Waiting to Happen, the Typhoons, Yet to Come</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>The Cracks of Earth at Home Longed for the Thirst to Get Quenched by the Rain</em></p>



<p><em>The Eyes in the Skies Filled with Blood</em></p>



<p><em>The Tears All Fell into the Oceans Now</em></p>



<p><em>The Mothers Crying Out of Despair, the Kneeling Waves</em></p>



<p><em>As I Sang that Wind of the Pacific that Kept Blowing on &amp; on</em></p>



<p><em>On the Way to Memorial Day</em></p>



<p><em>Hearing that Long Series of Impact from Crashing into the Tunnels</em></p>



<p><em>The Loudness Entered into My Brains</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>This Bullet of Anger, Shoots Towards the Corruption of the Contractors</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Entrance of the Tunnel, Deep Like the Dark Hole of Humanity</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Cliffsides Became that Crimson Tombstone</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Never-Ending Coastlines, that White Line that Led the Lost Souls, Onward</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Don’t Forget the Way Home,</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Don’t Look Back Now</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Skies Cried Its Eyes Red, Tears Filled Up the Oceans</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>This Debt, Leave to Us to Tally Up Train by Train by Train</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>You Just Go and Rest in Peace Now, You’d Died, Accidentally But Not, Alone</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Every Year around Memorial Day, the Families Shall Pass This Place by</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Wind of the Pacific, the Kneeling Waves, with the Tears, Salty Like the Seas</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right">And so, this, is an eulogy of sorts for the lives that were lost in the train derail from a short while ago, and, many lives were lost, and it happened right around Memorial Day, as these people who’d worked away all headed home to gather, only, that they didn’t, get home…</p>
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