Tuesday, June 25, 2024

On trial for all their lives Sept. 18, 2013

 


He finally gets his day in court,

only everybody is on trial,

 including her,

fate or god

less than the jury,

passing judgement

on a whole way of life,

neither good nor bad,

right nor wrong,

guilty or not,

but rather this

 sense of balance,

her universe at the brink,

Just the way it was long ago

on that roof top,

only now she has no control

of the outcome,

Will some higher power,

some god on high

, take away from her

what she has clawed

her way to achieve,

 this limited success

 she sees as

a stepping stone

on her way to something else?

How scared she must be,

how unfair the world seems

even when she

believes fair and unfair unreal.

Will he, will she, survive?

Will she lose all she has hoped for?



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