Article 301

Perhaps you're a scholar, writing of Turkish Kurds Perhaps you insulted Ataturk Perhaps you sided with conscientious objectors Maybe you publicly humiliated the authority of the courts Maybe you published books on controversial subjects Journalist, reporter, presenter, You've been described as a virus To be de-clawed like a bear To be caged, a toothless tiger sucking on silence Denied the right to question, contradict, explore Writer with invisible ink in your pen, You are a cloud person A nothing, blown away by the winds of power Like dust in a desert storm. You are also the grit in the world's eye That will not be wiped away.