The Cell (Poem)

I received this poem from my niece who is living abroad:

In a dark cold cell
is a man with dreams 
faith and hope
A man I look up to
 
In a dark cold cell
are prayers and song
Laughter and tears
Aspirations and despair

In a dark cold cell
is a country in mourning
Waiting to heal
Longing for freedom

In a dark cold cell
is the tyrant
repenting 
yearning for forgiveness
he shall never have

so i replied to her poem with these new lines:

In a dark cold cell

Is a man with great  hopes

That his fellow – men

Will understand and act

A man who will never lose hope

In a dark cold cell

Prayers and doaa

That Allah may look at them

A look of mercy and forgiveness

That is all what they ask for

In a dark cold cell

Is a country trying to understand

Waiting to heal

While its wounds are bleeding every day

What went wrong with me ?

In a dark cold cell

Are young women

Caught marching in the streets

Or carrying balloons in front of the sea

What is wrong with our country ?

In some dark cold cells

Are 529 men sent to the death chamber

In a two-day trial

They never got the chance

Even to see the judge

What is wrong with our justice

In a dark cold cell

Is a young man not more than 16

Accused of throwing a tank over the bridge

And shooting an army jet

What is wrong with common sense ?

In a dark cold cell

Is the tyrant ,  laughing

Telling himself I told them

My time is better than what is coming

The future – not only the cell – will be dark and cold

A dark cold cell

Is waiting for another tyrant

He killed thousands

Wounded tens of thousands

Arrested  almost one hundred thousands

In a single year

In a dark cold cell

the country is beginning to understand

It sold freedom and bought dictatorship

It was fooled on the 30th of June

But waiting for the coming 30th of June

To put things right once and for all

In a dark cold cell the county is beginning to understand

It sold freedom and bought dictatorship

It was fooled on the 30th of June

But waiting for the coming 30th of June

To put things right once and for all