{"id":59810,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=59810"},"modified":"2015-06-18T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:26:41","slug":"three-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/three-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was caught, gone and detained<br \/>\nIn the prison state human made<br \/>\nLocked hands freedom inside talked<br \/>\nBranded tattoo in the skin subsided<\/p>\n<p>A surrounded big wall, inside dreary cells<br \/>\nArmy, police and guards keep watch nails<br \/>\nOn the hut, at the gate, near the cells<br \/>\nThe fence of encroached freedom bells<\/p>\n<p>State thought what I have not thought<br \/>\nI thought what state has not thought<br \/>\nYou thought that, I was cut and built<br \/>\nI could open a door from which it thought<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, taken to the court<br \/>\nBefore the justice, I was revealed<br \/>\nI was mocked, despised and released<br \/>\nTo the second prison, the life of part<\/p>\n<p>No walls made closed are visible<br \/>\nAround me, following, it\u2019s invisible<br \/>\nBuilt Walls and cells are incredible<br \/>\nEyes of gestures are not reliable<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned me again re- imprisoned<br \/>\nReleased me again re- released<br \/>\nGruesome surround eye- blind<br \/>\nVicious- circle human made never- end<\/p>\n<p>Open the doors and closed<br \/>\nDay and the night it changed<br \/>\nI myself released and eyes closed<br \/>\nOpened the door to the prison third<\/p>\n<p>State inside, prison in it made<br \/>\nArmy, police and guards live in me<br \/>\nLaw and justice patrol from heart to mind<br \/>\nWhen my belly wants to break the rule<\/p>\n<p>Everything is finally everyone granted<br \/>\nA released man inside prison planted<br \/>\nFrom the space your bare eye &#8211; so called<br \/>\nA tiny hole of trust in neighbors searched<br \/>\n__________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer, Journalist, Peace and Human Rights Activist. <\/em><em>Graduate Student at the University of Innsbruck Austria.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was caught, gone and detained<br \/>\nIn the prison state human made<\/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-59810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59810","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=59810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}