Poetry About Judgment

The scale looks balanced before any human story is placed upon it. We form a verdict quickly from the evidence that resembles our fear. Law asks for facts while conscience asks what the facts have missed. Judgment can protect the harmed or become another shelter for power. Bias rarely announces itself before taking a seat beside certainty.

Law asks for facts while conscience asks what the facts have missed. Mercy is not erasure when it remains honest about consequence. The life across from us contains rooms no testimony can fully enter. Still, refusing every judgment can leave injustice unchallenged. Wisdom holds firmness and humility in the same difficult hand. Every verdict should remember the fallibility of the voice delivering it.

The scale looks balanced before any human story is placed upon it. Bias rarely announces itself before taking a seat beside certainty. Accountability names the act without pretending the person is only that act. Still, refusing every judgment can leave injustice unchallenged. The gavel rests after the room has emptied. Every verdict should remember the fallibility of the voice delivering it.