A Tragic Tale

A random take on the ideal of Justice being blind, like the statues where she wears a blindfold....

Men loosened Justice's blindfold

So she could "see the evidence" they said

She protested and tried to fix it,

but her scales fell out of balance. 

Peace asked her why?

Justice cried and her tears 

wilted Peace's olive branch

the dove drank the salt water and got sick. 

Hope tried to console Peace and Justice, 

But when she saw the blindfold amiss

and the dove sick

her fragile heart couldn't take it, and she died. 

Love tried to revive Hope

but she knew it wouldn't work, 

because she couldn't gather enough 

of Hope's soul to bring her back. 

And for that Peace and Justice

Shunned her, rebuked her

they said she was useless

and banished her to a far northern land. 

So Love fled from men's hearts

and found herself with Patience, cast into exile

Patience was happy because Loneliness fled, 

But Love longed for her former life. 

And with Hope dead

it didn't take long for Sorrow

to smite her. 

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

That was great So often justice and truth dont agree.So sad we cant objectively apply wisdom, to sentence

[Diwakar - "The Warrior ..]

so touching..............really incredible :-)

Truly incredible work. I am tired right now, and can't quite find the words to explain how this makes me feel, so I will just say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Great job!