Diaspora Diary

Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2014

A Visit to a Democrat


The walls are painted
On the name of words
The door is opened
Of your home
I am welcomed
To enter for building trust

Removing my shoes
At the doorstep
I sit on the sofa
You offer me a cup of tea
And then a meal
With pleasant treatments

I can use your Toilet
And sit back again
I see the opening windows
And can look out through it

I leave your home
At the same door saying good bye
The time with you
Partly I feel that
I am as a stranger
Even it is opened for sitting room

Locked cupboards and closed rooms
You never open
Though the door is opened

You are not interested in
To show or to share
When I try to explore as a child

You play like parents
Painted words
And marbled symbols
Look like fascinating
Beside the closed of your hidden rooms

Udaya R. Tennakoon

Image: Copyright Alle Rechte vorbehalten von Richard R. Thompson





Friday, September 13, 2013

One’s Burden Is One’s Freedom: Rejected Refugees in the Context of Sri Lanka

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Asylum seekers are not refugees but they are refugees without rights to be refugees. From a victim to be a refugee, the context of distance is legally bounded in universal human rights as well as state level rules and laws in a second or a third country of refugees. It is complicated in practice to decide whether that is qualified for refugee or not, even though there is a political and a social sense to determine human beings, who wish to be as a refugee. In the stratification of human history, refugees are brought to the last and bottom strata in the society having with fragile identity.  But even it is so, in the global context, if someone falls down to be a refugee, it is not easy to enter into that level, as it is a competitive and complicated human tragedy.