Thursday, December 06, 2007

The Prisoner


Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself”, Patrick McGoohan
He was locked in a cell… surrounded by bars… He couldn’t feel he was himself anymore… He couldn’t enjoy the taste of flying… He was carrying burdens… He could never touch the walls of the cell he was locked in… as they were just in his mind… He wasn’t sure he was free… and he wasn’t a prisoner too… He was struggling for freedom in a lost battle… His ideas and thoughts were struggling him… He fought daily to reach the… “nowhere” and to obtain the… “nothing”… He was always wondering to where he belonged… he was feeling he belonged to… the “nowhere”… He was looking for himself… He was searching for his lost soul… Behind the bars, he was there… and he didn’t dare to cross.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison”, Edwin Arnold
It is the free bird inside The Prisoner’s heart that will make him feel liberty.

Mena Mostafa

1 comment:

Mohamed Al-Khazendar said...

Prisoner, All of us are prisoners, you are always behind the prison bars. Everyone has limits in his thoughts, rights, actions, fears and places.
Those limits are the prison bars; whenever you exceed any limit you would face another one. We always move from cell to cell, but we feel prisoner more and more when we move to smaller one, and feel free if we only move to a little bigger cell.
It’s all about cell space, the cell space may be determined by others to us, but most of times we ourselves put the limits, we fear to touch the bars, never try to escape. Sometimes we move ourselves from cell to inner virtual cell. Cell bars have different shapes but one purpose. Sometimes we are very happy to enter a cell with golden bars while it’s nothing more than a death row.
Notes:
-Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited – “Jean Jacques Rousseau “
- Don’t try to be a prisoner for political reasons ;).
- If you have to choose your cell, don’t choose the isolation cell.

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