Lady Justice

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This poem was inspired by Ari Melber. Please take the time to read the Jan 6th Committee Report. The weight of this body of evidence cannot be ignored.

The blindfold I see
for the fairness we gain,
not one be distinct 
for the laws to remain,
but what of the chains
we have bound to our hand?
The scales of such weight
and the strength they command?

Were it mine to define
I would say it as such,
though sadly some wouldn’t 
agree with as much.
That this is the place 
where our senses collide,
our collectives of knowing 
where truth strains to hide.

Where the people shall bring
what they’ve seen and they’ve heard.
What they’ve touched and they’ve smelled, 
be it sane or absurd.
To protest the distaste 
of a tongue being used 
to act in bad faith 
through a trust in abuse.

There lay the knowledge 
of harm that’s been done 
tipping the scales 
to vantage for one.
In accordance of what 
we believe right and true,
this is how justice 
is served unto you.

For never shall merely 
the sole sense of seeing
be all that is used
to adjudicate being
Let the weight of our knowledge 
be put to the scales
lest to truth behind justice 
stays hidden and fails.

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