<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Courtroom Is Empty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the courtroom is empty, <br>the gavel untouched.<br>no hands on the book, <br>no jury of twelve.<br>(and the hands of the clock<br>have stopped!) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">small children killed, tossed in the trash, <br>women abused, old people hungry, alone.<br>young girls sold into slavery<br>young boys sold into war<br>homeless ghosts walk the halls, <br>without hope in man or God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there's no sound, no feeling, <br>not even a breath of air<br>(and the hands of the clock<br>have stopped!) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">an American tragedy, <br>or just human tragedy.<br>justice bought and sold, <br>afforded by just the few.<br>the wheels of Wall Street turn, <br>politicians barter with lives.<br>drinking the blood of the babies<br>that will never be born! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the takers keep taking, <br>and the honest man falls<br>to die nameless in the ditch, <br>covered by ashes and dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there's no sound, no feeling, <br>not even a breath of air.<br>(the hands of the clock<br>have stopped!) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the courtroom is empty</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389048" data-title="The Courtroom Is Empty de Eric Cockrell" data-description="the courtroom is empty, the gavel untouched. no hands on the book, no jury of twelve. (and the hands of the clock have stopped!) small children killed, tossed in the trash, women abused, old people hungry, alone. young girls sold into slavery..."></div> </div> </div>

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