RETRIBUTIVE OR REFORMATORY

To be judged and yet to judge not,

It is the greatest of gifts, man has got.

For if such, could think us all,

Would an unjust justice, bring about our downfall?

To punish, a mockery, we’ve made,

To please our soul, that we’ve fairly played!

For, like the moon, man too has a dark side,

As, many do not, by the spirit of law abide.

How else sprung debate of right and wrong,

In honor and honored; justice strong!

We do not ponder, how we destroy and deform,

In what we foolishly think, we reform.

To give each man a fair bill,

We’ve made the courts, a means to kill,

Despite all our laws and conventions vast,

We still save men, from crimes of their past?

To proclaim,

We reform the sinner,

And, all too fast!

We only put revenge’s stamp,

On his soul,

Forever to last!

And proudly claim,

That we treat,

Honest men, and those who murder,

All, the same.

If we look beneath, what we proclaim,

Just to bring, infamous, transitory fame;

The hollowness of this aim,

Shall soon be ‘rewarded’,

By God's natural justice game!

If you think that you’ve erred,

I pray that you mend.

And not just, to the rule of law,

But to God's justice, bend!