IMMORTALITY OF JUSTICE
Justice, you are King,
A divinity of truth and fairness
The advocate of the oppressed
The voice of the voiceless
Defender of the weak
The hope of the widows and the fatherless
A friend of the needy and the poor
In the time of trouble
And the hope of the common masses.
Although you denied among your brethren
Your righteousness often shows to the world still not goes dim
You jailed for your truth
You imprisoned because of your name
Who shall be your followers?
Who shall uphold your doctrines?
You are ringing a bell to call
Nobody seems to care or listen
Because they know your ways are pure
Nor respecter of any persons.
Justice, you neither accept a bribe,
Nor corrupt by gold and silver
Or move with emotions to pervert the truth
Errors never find in you
But the judgment of equity and equality
The rich and the poor level before you
Fear of death never grips you unawareness
For you always at alert for such a mission
Gun and sword means nothing to you
For you know that they are parts of life.
Justice, bloodshed you eschew
The game of the wicked and oppressors
And a lying mouth you frown at
A thousand years in your eye is
Like an evening past
You quick to hear
And slow to speak
Show your prudence
Your patient in decision-making
And your meditation before judgments are pronounced
Display that you are a wise king
Pleasures of the earth never entice you
You give your foes a chance
To do their pleasures
Awaiting them at the judgment seat.
The wing of your head that is white as snow
Shows forth sanity and righteousness
You mete out to all humans for equity
Your black and red gowns show dangers awaiting the offenders of laws
The pendulum scale of your justice weighing scale
Bring forth loads of sin of lawbreakers to the judgment seat
The sword of your hands displays the horror judgment of death and anguish
On your enemies without mercy
You are blind to all things for equity and equality.
Justice, you are not a means to an end
But you are an end to all means
Your immortality attributes never change
You are the truth that can never die
But you always prevail at all moments of life.
About this poem
The poem examines attributes of justice.
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Written on January 10, 2022
Submitted by ID on January 09, 2022
Modified on April 04, 2023
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| Scheme | ABXBCBXXD EXFXGHXEXH XXFIJIBEIK IGXDXXCXAXAIXGL XBJXXLXJJ XXXXK |
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 2,129 |
| Words | 416 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 10, 15, 9, 5 |
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