MY LADIES

Justice and Prudence

used to sleep

with the lights on

16th century

Lady

Justice

blindfolded now

reduced to brazen

idol looks over

a new republic

ready to burn

unable

to

see, impartial

in her hands

scales, a sword

Prudentia

holds a mirror

and a snake

foreign

to new

kingdoms

no longer sisters

standing back

to back my lips

still bleed from the

last kiss last man

on earth bitter crucified