What I Am

I must be silent
I must not speak
I must be confined
I must not seek

I do not say
A word at all
I do not see
A justice fall

But I do cry out
Into the night
I do see things
All the peoples’ plight

But I must not speak
I must not fear
I must remember
I must stay near

I am but
A mortal man
I am only
A justice’s hand

I feel pain
The heart-wrenching cries
I feel sorrow
The peoples’ sighs

But I can only
Pretend to be
I can only
Pretend to see

I must believe
In this false truth
While I must deal
With the heartless uncouth

I am an officer
A man of laws
I’m only human
I have my flaws.