Karin Beil | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

-lessLaw-

Why
do I
cry
at lies
that pull
at heartstrings
with wool
o’er sting
-ing eyes, hot
tears
not
near
their worth:
false value
of birth
untrue?
— when bereft
system
has naught left
but mayhem
— when light
of firefly’s
flight
decries
rank dark
with clarity
so stark
of strategy
— deceit —
so clearly
— counterfeit —
to every mind
not willfully
too blind
to see:
that tool
of law
is rule
of cloying flaw.