- history viewed as
a series of belated
legal decisions -
A case was being made against the rightful heir.
The law was being taken at its word.
Jurors labored to make its execution fair
and ensure their private opinions had no share
in the question as to how best to gird
the facts of the matter entrusted to their care
in a decision which one of them soon would bear
out from the room in which they were interred
(or so it seemed…so long since they’d taken their air
or had been allowed to exit the musty lair).
When the time could no longer be deferred,
one by one they inched their way back into the glare.
The auditors seemed decidedly unaware
that a decision had not yet been heard
or even, for that matter, just why they were there!
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