ALAS!

ALAS!

Alas! Why should helplessness, as a stray bitch, be molested, or raped, time and again,

Be compelled to lose her sleeps, erase her soles, swallow harassment excrement,

Swim across the longest and the stinkiest drain of an embarrassing investigation,

So that she may buy justice from the varied uniforms bribed, profaned and indecent!

Alas! Why should helplessness, as a guiltless ram, be slaughtered by the pseudo Saints,

Under their camouflaged and relentless daggers, who are really the heinous giants;

And be pushed as a wind blown leaf, to beg the disdainful and dastardly uniforms,

Of a mirage of justice, bleeding until death in the frightful faces of money-muscle storms!

Alas! Why should helplessness, as a

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