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Ulysses R. Gotera
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Execution Suspended,
On a Plea from Death Row
The law was not engraved in tablets
of stone, but of the human heart.
– Corinthians
Issue
Should conscience set a mirror
bright,
Or heed the heart of cosmic light?
If void is all, so vast, so empty,
Where could dirt and dust fly away?
DICTUM
Look, on this one blade of grass,
Life is a dew courting the sun.
Lovers smile and seconds pass,
The leaf bends, the dew is gone.
Resolution
Listen: seeds of pain, serfs of woe,
The judges sit but darkly know
Virtue from vice, the false as true
Blinding justice, the scales askew.
Hear the wind chimes, as the bells
echo
From a split court to the prison
wall.
Or see rainbows when showers fall
With grace, as hearts add life to
law.
LEONARDO A. QUISUMBING