Adjudication

 Adjudication

Carved out and cordless with no place to plug in

No batteries or bartered energy sources

Wanting to speak but the strands of these vocals

Keep tight in horses, standing staunch as mules

That whispers are extravagances too gluttonous to consume

Strapped to this seat, a lawyer nesting in her brief

Entrenched in every letter, every nuance of code

Every vantage point that could be un-tombed in the silence of this room

Aware that even the slightest out of order utterance

Could bring about a mistrial and all the driving and the time in

Of reference and study could be pissed away in a flurry

Of judge’s calls and bustling civil halls of order in the corners

Of knowing this is a circus of sands fluttering in the air of where

The music sits idle in the sequestered marrow of what makes a man, a man

This defined so blind and the times to move are consumed

With schedules and meddles tested in the court dates manifested

On what can not be agreed to nor discussed and impasse

Of all that is left in these carrying cases of excess baggage

Another life and other electric spikes of surges in the urges

To recognize what was and what was not and all this conjecture just ties knots

In the safety line to realign the direction out this hedge maze

Can not call out or trespassers will be shot, but having to go in despite

Knowing what is not, permitted in this ransacked kingdom

The king must sneak his way back in, to find the princess, to allocate the treasury

And all these mind fields impair his trajectory from ever just picking up his things

And moving on, each of these steps forlorn and ambivalent amidst the suicide sentiments

Castle under siege and silent to not alert the enemies within the gates

Historic truth like a pitfall trap to go lost and off the map of where this needs to go

So aware that love is not evidence, no video recording, only vantage points

To take advantage of revisionist history for divergent family Bibles

Saddle past mid day walking in and taking claim to the adjudicator’s discretion

These trinkets and these treasures tossed in the same sack, wanting some and none of it back.