Residivism

Is the jail a retreat
for the hired hooligans
to escape from revenge
and revive their trade later?

The goons rib about
while warning the weak men,
'Just six months.Royal food
with mutton and boiled peas
for cutting your throat'
The jail is a restroom for them.

If you want resurgence
of all kinds of crimes,
let the jails be renovated
into five-star hotels.
Or else wear them down
in farms and industries
for ten hours and see
if they are residivists again.

The religious extremists
can't be restrained
by putting them behind the bars
for even two decades,
supplying them with drugs,
phones, briyani and cigars
which are usually gifted
to the smugglers and robbers
for them the jails are resorts.

Make the criminals
sweat in the hot Sun,
extracting productive work.
They will not turn to
jails again in the coming years.

poem by Rajendran Muthiah
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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