{"id":27927,"date":"2013-04-22T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=27927"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:53:14","slug":"box-and-vicious-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/04\/box-and-vicious-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Box and Vicious Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a box<br \/>\nUp right and<br \/>\nThe horizontal position<br \/>\nWhile I was let in<\/p>\n<p>I fight for breaking it<br \/>\nTry to open a side<br \/>\nIn the light or<br \/>\nIn the dark<br \/>\nTo have freedom<\/p>\n<p>Go back to the past<br \/>\nAnd look at it<br \/>\nThe box is too small<br \/>\nFrom the position that I see<\/p>\n<p>I live in another box<br \/>\nWithin many boxes<br \/>\nUp right and horizontal<br \/>\nPerhaps without a position<\/p>\n<p>Jump from one to another<br \/>\nIn days and nights<\/p>\n<p>To catch happiness<br \/>\nTo grab hopes<br \/>\nTo extend unlimited bounds<br \/>\nMeanwhile I dream for freedom<\/p>\n<p>I want to break one<br \/>\nThat I feel a pressure<br \/>\nInstead of break<br \/>\nI am granted a window<\/p>\n<p>To open and to close<br \/>\nWhenever I wish<br \/>\nNot to flee<br \/>\nBut to live<\/p>\n<p>I live in a box<br \/>\nWithin boxes<br \/>\nAs I did in the past<br \/>\nI want to come out<br \/>\nFrom the vicious cycle boxes of the box<br \/>\nAnd also from the box<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">______________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.<\/em><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a box<br \/>\nUp right and<br \/>\nThe horizontal position<br \/>\nWhile I was let in<\/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-27927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927","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=27927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}