{"id":26258,"date":"2013-03-04T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2013-03-02T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T15:44:40","slug":"human-rights-and-white-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/03\/human-rights-and-white-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights and White Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beating drums and playing trumpets<br \/>\nGods are called to get down to earth<br \/>\nBrutalized shamans squat at the binary sides<br \/>\nIn between the valetudinarian and<br \/>\nDevil dance when night comes<\/p>\n<p>A voice far away from the scene<br \/>\nClosed ears for the justice<br \/>\nBlindfolded subjects seem to be subdued<br \/>\nLike prisoners of deceit<\/p>\n<p>Victims and valetudinarians are<br \/>\nCommodity in the markets<br \/>\nGods from the heaven are<br \/>\nProfit projected investors<\/p>\n<p>Humanity being bargained<br \/>\nChamber of the council<br \/>\nJustice being balanced<br \/>\nCollects evidence of evil<\/p>\n<p>Rights and justice<br \/>\nIt is now in a paradigm shift<br \/>\nNo more for the victims<br \/>\nIt is a kind of business<\/p>\n<p>But such a business<br \/>\nCould be a shift for transcend<br \/>\nWhere the humanity and rights<br \/>\nAre disappeared as a genocide<\/p>\n<p>In a time of everything violated<br \/>\nNo result, genuine hope of purified<br \/>\nTime and space may be splendid<br \/>\nWho would together and well mixed<\/p>\n<p>This is a white magic<br \/>\nA bowl of interests cooks<br \/>\nThis is a place of power<br \/>\nYou cannot flee for ever<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>Beating drums and playing trumpets<br \/>\nGods are called to get down to earth<br \/>\nBrutalized shamans squat at the binary sides. . .<\/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-26258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258","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=26258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}