Scanned through the gates, bags searched,
Fingers on triggers the guards stand
Barricaded ways. Define a prison,
The teacher asks, visit a primary school,
The innocent reply. Underseige…
Of eyes, wires, cameras and guns -
We impart an education and training,
They shall earn a name, of a generation,
A generation who came from gallows indeed
Faithless, fearful, insecure, de-capitated
Privileged, wingless, mindless and insensitive.
-On reopening the schools after December 16,2014 carnage in Peshawar.
Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
January 12,2015.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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