Monday, January 24, 2011

Fourth Post - Conflict/Control


An average city life in downtown Tehran,
Who could ever guess,
Things would turn into such a huge mess,
Marina Nemat could certainly not, otherwise she would have surely ran.

Tehran was a great place to grow up and live in,
Until the Islamic Revolution
People’s rights were lost and Marina found herself in Evin Prison
A huge conflict in her life with little hope for resolution

She was taken as a prisoner for basically no more then suspicion of treason,
Although everyone was against the Revolution at hand,
Marina then met Ali, by whom she was questioned and tortured for little reason,
All basic rights and freedoms were lost and living conditions where worse than bland.

Plenty of conflict had begun to arise,
Marina hated Ali but he was basically the only way for her to survive.
Ali clearly had secure control over Marina’s life,
He was the reason she was not getting a death sentence of course,
But he had tortured and even raped her without much remorse,
And then Ali took it even farther, as he forced her to become his wife.

At times he treated her well but she would never be able to forgive him,
Marina’s life was completely out of her control, as at Evin no freedom was given.
Just as she and the rest of the girls in with her were starting to lose hope,
Ali began taking Marina on visits to his family, helping her to cope,
Yet reality she would never be able to fully elope,
She was worth nothing, absolutely no personal power; it was all a cruel joke

From Marina’s hardships you gain insight to her strong-willed personality,
She endured things that for many its hard to believe could be reality,
Control plays out strongly as the story goes on,
Ali is in complete power but for freedom Marina gives a subtle and hopeless plea,
Yet prison has already changed her and the innocent teenage Marina is long gone,
Life is brutal, how could she live it all as a prisoner to the government of Iran

 But suddenly things change greatly, Ali is murdered,
What does this mean? She despised him yet he kept her alive,
But instead of death, she is released as Ali’s parents fought greatly for her,
Suddenly from imprisonment to freedom, Evin Prison was now left behind.

But her problems lived on as what she experienced was too much to let go,
Her life in the past two years had basically been taken away,
The loss of control has affected Marina’s life to this day,
She will always remember even know she was a prisoner so long ago.