Outlawyered

Outlawyered Briefcase full of contradictions Signed confessions, blank convictions Courtroom humming like a hive Truth gets sentenced while it’s alive Outlawyered, outtalked, outworn Justice stitched from a twisted form Outlawyered, velvet rope Hangman learning legal hope Judge in glasses made of smoke Reading statutes like a joke Clerk is counting whispered sins While the jury folds its pins Lawyer dances with a lie Wearing truth like it might die Opposition, holy grin Everyone claims they didn’t sin Contracts crawling up the wall Case files breathing in the hall Precedent like broken glass Cutting every witness fast Outlawyered, paper blade Freedom’s dressed but overpaid Outlawyered, ink-stained crown Rights get lost when words break down Cross-examined by a ghost Arguing what matters most Objection raised by empty air Sustained by nobody there Paralegals in a trance Writing fate in second chance Statues arguing with flame Every verdict sounds the same Gavel drops like falling rain Memory rewrites the pain Truth and fiction swap their seats While the system eats its teeth Outlawyered, case dismissed Reality clenched in a fist Outlawyered, final plea Even guilt needs bureaucracy And the law keeps circling slow Like it doesn’t want to know Who was right or who was gone Just that something moved along