{"id":41,"date":"2007-11-02T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moemaka.org\/wp\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-11-02T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T06:35:49","slug":"nyane-thit-the-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2007\/11\/nyane-thit-the-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyane Thit &#8211; The Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Last night, <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A tea cup was snatched from one of them<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That you were found starving and hungry<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Said you to our comrades <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We too were also hungry and starved<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Had you ever prayed or meditate?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Had you ever met with your children?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Had you ever done chores for your mother?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Had you ever freed yourself?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And still you stayed with us<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To protect and to serve?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; May you rest in peace<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You had suffered too much<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You had prayed and you had stood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To free the prisoners but<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You became a prisoner of conscious yourself<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You had been abused<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You had been chained<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While protecting the underage prisoners around us<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then you were beaten to death<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This was rule less<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The was law less<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Even in Abu Ghraib<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Seven of the torturers were prosecuted<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here, there 23 of them<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Never being found guilty<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We were that weak and feverish<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That the sparrow was chased <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nobody dared to scare the crow away<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here, my ghost<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You never bowed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You never withdrew<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You were the one<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Who switched from the enemy<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To sided with us<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here, my ghost<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the wall of the prison<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You were deserved to be curved your own greatness<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Like the shining stars on the sky<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There stretched your blood scatter <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here, my ghost<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You will not be the one to witness such<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We would be home soon<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Were you still be left behind <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">(The poem was written in Mawlamyine Prison. In memory of one political prisoner, former military man who sided with democracy movement but later tortured to death in prison) <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Translated by Maung Yit<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">    <\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moemaka.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=452&#038;Itemid=99999999\">http:\/\/moemaka.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=452&#038;Itemid=99999999<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moemaka.com\/images\/stories\/arts\/yit-nthit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" width=\"250\" height=\"318\" align=\"left\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: maroon\">The Ghost<\/span><br \/> <em><span style=\"color: navy\">Nyane Thit<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/> <span style=\"color: blue\">August 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0&#8211; The night hit hard with dark storm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The dark soaked in every corner<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There in the dark came<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The misery in stealth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And you \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I have longed for your smile .<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; Under the dazzling search light  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With the mystical might<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There at the roof edge<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dangled and gone <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then run the scared wardens<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">From the side of hangman ward<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Stirred by sight of yours<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/2007\/11\/nyane-thit-the-ghost\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RDLm-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moemaka.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}