Jurisprudes

They were lawyers in ordinary Members of judge & co. ltd. A family concern overseered By one mr justice umpire Apparently A distinguished and honourable beak widely spread on this and other legal continents. Between them There was only this unity of purpose That both were shouting contradictions Across a vacuum An irrelevant tragedy In a human setting: Hammering the law When that was on his side And the table When it was not But the judge was unmoved! The verdict was a plain ‘Hang him high!’ Again leveled across a vacuum And scored from an off-side position To free law of all foreign elements And supplant ‘might’ with ‘is’ Legal consequence with legal condition! Then I was a student And a multiplicity of norms Constituted a unity, A system without system!