Law Is a Comic Relief

LAW IS A COMIC RELIEF Law is a comic relief Subtlety amidst ardent belief. Draconian legislation That still wriggles out an exception. Pitiless killer Yet cleverest healer. Law is a comic relief Deus ex machina to its own mischief. Creator of extreme offences That yet allows supreme defences. Coercive jailer for life That still gives freedom for a good strife. If... Insanity may be antidote for committing homicide And intoxication could be a nostrum for patricide And provocation may be a corrective for matricide And necessity is a curative for avunculicide And self-defence is a rectifier for uxoricide And automatism is a shield for regicide And necessity is a panacea for sororicide And fair comment is a cure for famacide Then Law is just nothing but a comic relief. --Bolaji Ramos, Esq. Copyright 2017