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New Hope

4/17/2017

 

With credibility destroyed
    How shall a court be trusted?
Fairness was banished to the void,
    Right truth by bias busted.

A hack promoted to the bench
    Because an ideologue
(By means that must give truth to blench)
    Serves honesty to flog.

How shall men sue for justice? Whom
    Beseech to get a hearing?
With such a quisling in the room
    (Gorsuch) much calls for fearing.

No longer let men seek redress
    Through justice from the law,
Because the court accounts for less
    As through a coup d’etat.

Fairness was sundered, and belief,
    By a judicial coup,
Sufficient to bring unto grief
    A land wherein hope grew.

Save the whole structure now be rent
    And builded up again,
How shall truth live, that has been spent,
    Robbed of the citizen?

With a foundation built on rot
    A building has to fall,
But new men rise, and bear new thought,
    To walk in virtue tall.

The old effects of privilege
    Deserve to fall and fail,
But such as do to justice pledge
    May see new hopes prevail.

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