Of prisons and prisoners

Heart bleeds to see and hear news about unending imprisonment of all those who said no to authoritarianism and dictatorship.

I dedicate following stanza from Richard Lovelace to Mr Atizaz Ehsan, Mr Ali Ahmed and Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood particularly and all other honourable judges who have been put under forcible detention since the imposition of second martial law on the land of pure.

Stone walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Mindes innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage;
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soule am free;
Angels alone that sore above,
Injoy such liberty.

(To Althea From Prison)