first there was trouble
bloody knife and a bloody victim
they arrested the suspect
booked, and charged
and brought before the law
and then the law reads a book
of elements and penalties
"we hear his first" says the judge
and he too has reason
and days went on and on
and without bail he is in prison
and the lawyers talk and talk
and years went by
and he is forgotten
and then the prison ministry says
he is just like us
there must be a little love for those who
go astray and now found and now
must be released back to society
for another beginning
and back to freedom again
and then back to the first line
trouble and more trouble
doubling trouble
and it is hard to point where
who to blame
what to cure
what medicine
and so on and so forth
you ask why?
this is what we are and this
is how we live and this is how
we survive.
in the vice of
a cycle.
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