Leviathan gave birth
to iron bars and execution
Locke’s order morphing to beast
Cruel and unusual
the order of the day

Gavel cracks
on the back of poverty
Survival becomes violences
screaming isolation,
violating dignity
demanding obedience

Our Lady crawls along pipeline
choking on legality
grasping for morality
Words of 240 years
form shackles, tilting scales
weakening Her constitution

Citizen spectators silently watch
and await their judgement