Not So Distant Away Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

There are cages that kept
The draconian punishments meted out
To the guilty and cruel ones
Where their crimes duly verified
The ways of punishment in long years back
A cruelty itself to the humans
Not to correct the guilty ones
But to destroy the human souls
Now new thoughts and rules prevalent
Jails that becomes corrective homes
The jobs they deserves and engaged
With a petty sum sometimes paid
Jails supposed to be the corrective homes
Where the souls gets a chance to reform
And a natural life to lead in future
The good vision of world they should see
The days of hope is not so distant away.