<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=485145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A verdict of guilt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I like to be stern today<br>So that you may believe me<br>That I am serious <br>About the law and that <br>I mean it when I punish you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look at you<br>As you stand before me <br>Uncombed hair<br>The dirt of poverty<br>All over your body<br>Unwashed clothes<br>The odor of your crime<br>Permeating the room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You look like a <br>Tattered poem to me<br>I want to write <br>Something beautiful<br>About you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could have followed<br>The creative path<br>Of compassion and<br>Shy away from form<br>And reason</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet society is looking<br>With anger and thirsting<br>For revenge<br>Which they call justice<br>I hand the verdict<br>Of conviction</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another body another<br>Soul shall suffer because<br>The path is rigid<br>And too smooth for our<br>Own creative imagination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=485145" data-title="A verdict of guilt de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="I like to be stern today So that you may believe me That I am serious About the law and that I mean it when I punish you I look at you As you stand before me Uncombed hair The dirt of poverty All over your body Unwashed clothes The odor of you..."></div> </div> </div>

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