Scanned Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

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.