By Ode Eyeoyibo
The Rule of Law
The Law of Rules
The Law
The Rules
The Law Rules
Just Laws
Just Law.
Justice
blindfolded and even-handed
But not blind and
unhinged
The Rule of Just
Laws encircling the beloved and empowered community— a Magna Carta
A magma carving
new pathways of establishment
A charter
indicating equality of access before the law.
Telling the law
with stories
Telling stories of
the law
Telling Lord
Denning’s family story alongside all the others.
In many cases
The law is a
donkey
Very unlike the
one who heard the cry of Hosanna!
But that ‘rule of
law’ donkey is all we have in the public domain.
Justice is not for
just us
But for all of us
As we submit to
the rule of law
The rule of just
laws!
