{"id":124628,"date":"2018-12-24T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=124628"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:29:43","slug":"back-to-the-old-path-and-returning-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/back-to-the-old-path-and-returning-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Old Path and Returning to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was entered<br \/>\nInto the mythical cave<br \/>\nA lit up lamp<br \/>\nA gem embossed crown of truth reflected<br \/>\nI met heroes, winners and defeaters sleeping<\/p>\n<p>When I touched the crown<br \/>\nThey woke up<br \/>\nYou can touch but cannot hold<br \/>\nI need this, that\u2019s why I came<br \/>\nit\u2019s useless, just an archive<br \/>\nI know that your crown is so, I need not that<br \/>\nThen what you need?<\/p>\n<p>truth<br \/>\nIt\u2019s too dead<br \/>\nI can give a life<\/p>\n<p>Excited symbols pleaded<br \/>\nAsking the life<br \/>\nYou are still living though you are dead<br \/>\nYour lives reflect without a change<br \/>\nI need only truth<\/p>\n<p>If you are given<br \/>\nWe shall be vanished<br \/>\nNot at all<br \/>\nI will invite you in the proper time<br \/>\nOr you may come with me<br \/>\nIf you can transform<\/p>\n<p>After the consensus meeting<br \/>\nWe set out at the dawn<br \/>\nThrough the historical path<\/p>\n<p>On the way<br \/>\nUnder the construction, re construction and de construction<br \/>\nI showed them the city<br \/>\nYou may stay there<br \/>\nIt would provide a place<\/p>\n<p>I took the truth and left them<br \/>\nWhile\u00a0 the sun is setting down<br \/>\nIn the darkness, under the star lights<br \/>\nI passed by the forest<br \/>\nTo reach the border<br \/>\nWhere a wall was built<br \/>\n_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-83463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Udaya-R.-Tennakoon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Dramatist,\u00a0 Peace, Human Rights and Political Activist. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was entered<br \/>\nInto the mythical cave<br \/>\nA lit up lamp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}