{"id":21945,"date":"2012-10-08T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21945"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:38:15","slug":"ink-of-failed-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/ink-of-failed-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink of Failed Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once up on a time<br \/>\nAmong some other men and women<br \/>\nCalled human rights activists<br \/>\nIn a wonderful country<br \/>\nSometimes may be yours or not<\/p>\n<p>Covered skin as a righteous character<br \/>\nAppearing on surface of conflicts<br \/>\nSeems to be the side of victims<br \/>\nDefinition today is doubtful<\/p>\n<p>Fights for rights<br \/>\nIt is a job well paid<br \/>\nElite\u2019s cases are handled<br \/>\nLike a lawyer acts<\/p>\n<p>Having not anything bought<br \/>\nEarns more over unexpected<br \/>\nBarking to one side loudly<br \/>\nLicks the other side slowly<\/p>\n<p>Sells killings, violence and tortures<br \/>\nYearns conflicts and wars<br \/>\nWrites reports and goes for conferences<br \/>\nGrabs projects and funds from donors<\/p>\n<p>For the survival<br \/>\nConsciously or unconsciously<br \/>\nDoes not expect<br \/>\nPeaceful solutions<\/p>\n<p>On the way of helping to charismatic issues<br \/>\nWishes conflicts to be expanded<br \/>\nTo write reports and statements<br \/>\nWith ink of failed conscience<\/p>\n<p>Domesticated heart body and mind<br \/>\nUnwilling to retreat<br \/>\nExtended greediness<br \/>\nLiving in hunting stages<\/p>\n<p>Empathy and sympathy<br \/>\nGradually dwindled<br \/>\nShocked heart tears dry up<br \/>\nKillings, disappearance, and abductions<br \/>\nWell trained reports<br \/>\nFills in the blanks<br \/>\nOf failed humanity questions<br \/>\n_____________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once up on a time<br \/>\nAmong some other men and women<br \/>\nCalled human rights activists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945","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=21945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}