Poem - Where Are You, Justice?

Where Are You, Justice?
Ada Rizzo (Italy)


A shadow moves in the dark
Trembling hands search for bread
In the silence a mute cry, Hunger!
Where are you, Justice?


Your laws on golden pages
Do not touch the heart of the hungry.
In a world where the weakest are marginalized,
You are just a chimera, a forgotten dream.


A thief, a theft, who is the true guilty?
The society that closes its eyes, that ignores.


In the silence of the strong, the truth implores
Where are you, Justice?
Do you not hear the cry of a mother, its echo in the wind?
Blindfolded goddess, you hold scales weighed down by the dark power.


Rise up and extend your hand to the invisible humanity,
For a gesture of love is worth more than a cold written code.


If stealing is the only way to survive,
The law has failed, the machinery is broken.
Where are you, Justice?
Despite everything, I will wait for your return.



Ada Rizzo – February 4, 2025

Copyright – Intellectual Property Law No. 633 of April 22, 1941


*Collected from the poetess by Md Ejaj Ahamed of Aurangabad, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India*