Before I Learned What The Judge Did Poem by James McLain

Before I learned what the Judge did; there were lawyers
and if i did know, not wanting to and I feel just the poorer.
Before i learned to help them i thought they did to as well
and now if i do i must be come a thing they are not still.
Before i tossed the rock into the pond with out thinking
and the rings grew wider and now threaten to snare my all.
Before thinking i was taught not to question in the silence,
and the others rights would be caught in webs of emotion.
Before the traps you watched them set that needs no bait
and you walk inside seeing it and you still sat down there
and thinking it for another that lied, you did not know it untill.
Before you came and tricked your neibor your neibor knew,
and did nothing and living in truth he did not know a lawyer.
Before and now are worlds apart and you must now know this
and now where ever you walk you may not know a lawyer.