Alma Novaes

 

Themis

This has always been a consequence
occurrence of inequality
one of the causes I make mine.
That of the search for balance in justice.
And when the fight is ours
Only possibility, fight
It is a right that belongs to everyone.
I have been waiting for justice for many years,
patience and tenacity
they did not diminish hope,
They didn't make her hollow
on the contrary, they postponed it
And I await the seal
of my freedom
From the fair egalitarian mouth
who before led it astray.

What a sad world this that,
from appeal to appeal,
from court, in court,
from corridor to corridor,
hides from transparencies
and it dissolves into minutiae,
prostituting himself in diligences
and false questions, of appanage
evident and egoic destiny,
another setback, a folly,
to still shield himself,
justify himself in the absence of that
which he says is, no justice.