{"id":44901,"date":"2014-07-21T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=44901"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:39","slug":"forget-or-forgive-or-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/07\/forget-or-forgive-or-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget or Forgive or Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I would ask<br \/>\nJust to forget the past<br \/>\nWho I am and<br \/>\nWho will I be?<\/p>\n<p>If I would ask<br \/>\nJust to forgive<br \/>\nWho I am and<br \/>\nWho will I be?<\/p>\n<p>If I would ask<br \/>\nTo fight with the past<br \/>\nWho I am<br \/>\nWho will I be?<\/p>\n<p>If I am a victim<br \/>\nUse the word of forget or forgive<br \/>\nThe others would say<br \/>\nThat I am Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>If I am the other side<br \/>\nUse the words of those<br \/>\nWill be a lie<br \/>\nThen where can I stand?<br \/>\nAnd what\u2019s the word<\/p>\n<p>If the Forget is meaningless and<br \/>\nForgive is useless<br \/>\nThe Fight will be the word<br \/>\nBut I feel that it is aimless<br \/>\nNevertheless, it is a hope<\/p>\n<p>Though the history belongs to past<br \/>\nAnd chapters are black<br \/>\nMemories and pains are behind<br \/>\nTogether with blood of soil<br \/>\nAnd sighs of relatives<br \/>\nShadows as ghosts<\/p>\n<p>Lost souls<br \/>\nNeedy of dignity crawls<br \/>\nTo gain the demands<br \/>\nPeople fought and voiced<br \/>\nEverything in the past<br \/>\nThat I today use<br \/>\nFor the system is a profit<br \/>\nA capital for actors<\/p>\n<p>Having said to forget or to forgive or to fight<br \/>\nTurning point will support<br \/>\nNot for the objects<br \/>\nBut for the subjects<br \/>\nThen what\u2019s the word<br \/>\nBelongs to the justice, truth and dignity<\/p>\n<p>To forget<br \/>\nThere is no any sojourn<br \/>\nTo forgive<br \/>\nThere is no any consent<br \/>\nTo fight<br \/>\nThere is no any hope<br \/>\n____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Peace and Human Rights Activist. Graduate at the University of Basel, Switzerland<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I would ask<br \/>\nJust to forget the past<br \/>\nWho I am and<br \/>\nWho will I be?<\/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-44901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44901","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=44901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}