A protest poem by Sherin that critiques the legal system, and celebrates cardinal justice, exclusively for Different Truths.

Order! Order!
The court hall couldn’t be calmed
The gavel sinks in the clamour; unheard.
Morphed observations chime in
New findings erupt with din.
 
Themis removes the black ribbon
She detests the sight!
Weighing scales in her hands tilt
She drops it!
Fairness and wealth stay unbalanced.
 
Her swift sword is rusted
By the unjust practices to it subjected.
She breaks it into two.
Walking out, she pushes aside –
The procurators in black, give a look snide.
 
The Lady Justice ascends steep steps
To the tower overlooking the land
She detests the sight!
Pigeons flutter their wings into news
Blinding all sights witnessed.
 
Every reason is a story
Of cheat, deceit or treason gory.
What is the speed of law, of justice?
Their line remains long, to the jury
No privilege, no power, to fend their fury.
 
Waiting in pain for needful gain
Time crawls for those with no penny
Lady Justice watches in agony.
She detests the sight!
Law builds justice and proves worthy.
 
Now she rises, it is The Judgement Day.
The verdict is so ruthless she will say.
Rest not; in worn books as acts and sections
Dusty files bury not; the truth for odd reasons
Hear the cry of the common man.
 
As they writhe under heavy feet
Laws guard man in a world off beat.
Manoeuvre the mud like a tough machine
Bring the sunken people to pure sunshine.
Cleanse and breathe new life into them.

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Sherin Mary Zacharia

Sherin Mary Zacharia at 18 years loves reading writing travel and nature . Writing poems keeps her spirits high while being a nonverbal autistic. She has won national and international prizes for her poetry. Nature has been her favorite theme ever since she began writing stories at a tender age of 6. "Moonlight" her book of poems was published in 2018. She writes in Malayalam also. She lives in Kochi, Kerala with her parents and her younger sister.

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