The Karachi Remand .... AKSHR

The Karachi Remand

Beyond the sprawling traffic of the hot Karachi street,
Behind the heavy iron gates where law and childhood meet,
A boy from rural Sukkur sits and watches shadows fall,
Counting up the cracks upon a cold, lime-tinted wall.

The High Court gave an order, and the judges signed the sheet,
To give the youth a second chance, to save them from defeat.
But the committees remain broken out where the cotton grows,
And how the law is meant to work, the jailer rarely knows. 

They brought him down to Youth Barracks, away from home and kin,
Because his town lacked separate space to put a minor in.
The Children Act of Fifty-Five promised care and reformative light,
Yet here he sits, an unread file, deep in the Sindhi night. 

Oh, build the schools in Hyderabad, enforce the rules today,
Before another generation wastes its youth away.
Let justice stretch past city lines, to where the river flows,
And heal the broken minds of youth before the gate stays closed.