Justice Isn't Only in a Courtroom

January 18, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is justice, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, which falls on January 16.

Today’s poem is about the many aspects of justice.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Justice isn’t only in a courtroom.

It has to do with wages, healthcare, schools.

It has to do with races more than rules.

It has to do with class as well as classrooms.

It has to do with the reward for labor.

The market is efficient but not just.

A just State sets some limits on its lust,

And ameliorates the brunt of its behavior.

It has to do with prejudice and hate,

With opening crucial doors to one’s own kind

And leaving those with differences behind,

Then blaming their condition for their fate.

It has to do with hearts as well as laws,

And with how many would take up its cause.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/justi3.html. For more poems about justice and other political topics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Justice

January 16: Movements Are like Waves upon the Shore

January 17: Justice Is as Justice Does

January 18: Justice Isn’t Only in a Courtroom