Justice Changes Colors & Shapes²
They have little chance of resisting
The Injustice of the Powerful whose
Only weapons are Innocence & Reason³
Justice is a Blind Goddess: her Bandage Hides
Two Festering Sores that once perhaps were Eyes⁴
“It’s the Law” – “Even when it’s something Bad?”⁵
Injustice Anywhere Threatens Justice Everywhere⁶
Those who ask Justice should not have to Beg⁷
I’m Sick of calling your Recklessness Law⁸
Law Never made man a Whit more Just⁹
Humanity’s Grim Justice goes its way¹⁰
¹ Denise Levertov, City Psalm
² Abu Salma, My Country on Partition Day
³ Aesop tr. Thomas James, The Wolf and the Lamb
⁴ Langston Hughes, Justice
⁵ Guillermo Del Toro, Patrick McHale, & Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
⁶ Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
⁷ Sophocles tr. Theodore Howard Banks, Oedipus at Colonus
⁸ Danez Smith, Dear White America
⁹ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
¹⁰ Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol