..A Legal Story.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

the mother who killed her boy in 2013
the uncle who wounded a nephew on his head in 2015
have reasons to be happy.

there are no more witnesses.

the prosecutor is a lazy bone focused more on his new projects
a new house, another car, a summer vacation in the Maldives.

the public defender is happier with nothing in mind but to ease his
case folder.

the old judge thinks of his retirement package. A home far from the noise of the city. A reunion with his grandchildren and successful children.

two cases are dismissed. One soul is still searching for a goddess and her name is justice.