Is All Injustice Created Equal
He sits and waits and sulks
as the clock strikes
and on they strike
and on he called to do no wrong 'in judgement,
in meteyard, in weight or in measure,'
And Oh! the boy thinks he see's this,
but his judgement clouded by soot black eyes.
And so he only sees the adults have struck him wrong
as he sits and waits outside the office
for the Brother, teacher to emerge
as the clock strikes
and on they strike.
For they can not tolerate the closure of their mines,
the closure of their lives
and so they defy 'Her England,' of which
Orwell wrote and which came true in
nineteen-eighty-four
So the boy should not sulk
as the clock strikes
and on they strike
as he should see there are greater injustices
or is it true that
'he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.'
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