{"id":197638,"date":"2021-10-18T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=197638"},"modified":"2021-10-15T03:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:54:05","slug":"are-you-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/10\/are-you-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Awake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victimization, persecution, corruption, detestation,<br \/>\nDeforestation, degradation, alienation.<br \/>\nAre you awake? Governed by distractions,<br \/>\nMake a distinction, to stop these factions.<br \/>\nMorally ambiguous. Too many dissensions.<br \/>\nHurricanes and tsunamis.<br \/>\nDesperate cries, crimes of servitude.<br \/>\nSlaved and\u00a0 alone.<br \/>\nIs slavery fine?<br \/>\nAre you awake?<\/p>\n<p>Hatred, violence, revulsion,\u00a0 aversion, apprehension.<br \/>\nRevulsion and coercion.<br \/>\nCompromised dreams deny the gift of the receiver<br \/>\nBut you can receive ?<br \/>\nClean air some can only perceive.<br \/>\nCapitalism, antagonism, chauvinism and repulsion continue.<br \/>\nHarassment, eternal war of pawns on checkerboard,<br \/>\nOnly allowing our masters to move us.<br \/>\nOr try to degrade us.<br \/>\nListen to the ancient sages,<br \/>\nDispensing teachings that never age.<br \/>\nNo more intellectual stagnation.<br \/>\nOppression, racism, radicalism, resentment, extremism,<br \/>\nFanaticism, intimidation, discrimination, trepidation<br \/>\nAre you awake?<\/p>\n<p>Desperate cries,<br \/>\nToo much crime.<br \/>\nDraw us into this power game.<br \/>\nConspiracy, treachery, enmity, duplicity, animosity.<br \/>\nAcrimony, hostility, xenophobia, paranoia.<br \/>\nAre you awake?<br \/>\nRewire and tend to the fire<br \/>\nFind that stable position.<\/p>\n<p>Be that motivation, be that inspiration<br \/>\nTime to integrate,<br \/>\nIncinerate disbelief.<br \/>\nShake the heavens,<br \/>\nUse your common sense.<br \/>\nYou have gifts to dispense!<br \/>\nLeaving a permanent mark,<br \/>\nWhen we do, we will be worthy.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what it means to be awake.<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victimization, persecution, corruption, detestation,<br \/>\nDeforestation, degradation, alienation.<br \/>\nAre you awake? Governed by distractions,<br \/>\nMake a distinction, to stop these factions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-197638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197638","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=197638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}