THE TRIBUNAL

'So who have we got today - not another winner
from The Apprentice or a homosexual sinner?
wasting this courts time with such trivia,
same old problems, are you a giver or a taker?'

Pilate washed his hands of semantic rhetoric,
tired of this man saying: 'Everything is within you,'
'I will ask them: 'What would you like to do?
Continue listening to sludge or is anything new?'

'You're as bad as Phaedrus, promising things,
what compassion, tolerance, understanding brings,
show me how you've gained, advanced to heaven,
and now even forgive nicely, seventy times seven'.

'Pardon me if I seem to have a cross to bear,
you lack knowledge but at least you want to care.'