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2024-02-05 22:58 EST

Author's note: I wrote this poem about a year ago, when I was suddenly struck with an urge to express this. I am posting it here for safe-keeping.

Do not mistake the Law for Justice.
They are two animals,
related (God-willing),
but wholly, concretely separate.
Law is of man, fashioned by voice & pen,
as fallible as his biases and faults.
Justice is eternal, ever-permeating,
something unable to be confined to words.
Though I at times may follow the law,
my allegiance is to Justice.
Where the two differ
I will follow Justice unrepentantly.

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