Blind Justice of Quotas

Blind Justice of Quotas

The gavel falls by decimal,

The judgement by percent.

The individual decreased to small,

A fraction of intent.

The scales she holds no longer weigh

The implication of the crime; They total up

The data-set to clear the queue of time.

Injudicious eyes are bound

To grids of black and white

Where no extenuating ground can alter

Wrong to right.

We trade the law for calculators, Truth for

targeted numbers.

Escaping fair adjudicators for anything that
computes.

She stands in stone, a blind sum capture to
A pie-chart, crown- a goddess turned outdated,

While column weigh her down.

A ledger filled, a ratio net, The target achieved
And clear;

While justice weeps inside the trap of a
Mathematical World.
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