Just Us

This is not to be judgemental only to explain the pain of lawyering and why I believe the justice system is flawed. I thank my forefathers that I am free to write what I want in this, my blog haven. Someday perhaps Hunter will wonder what happened to us and this is how I saw things. by Alice Karma.



Hallways of Just us

By Alice Karma


We stood there shivering in fear,



I am comfortable in a hospital ICU where I worked and knew what to do, what to expect,

Not these scary halls of justice where lawyers stroll in in all black and saunter while we shiver.



Out darts our lawyer, pulled away from all his expensive research he had done,

We didn't know he charged us over 10 thousand dollars for the research that failed to nail down the real facts.



He returns face blank, washed of color, breathless because he doesn't want to tell us

Our opponents want us gone, they want all the money and property and they hate us.



I think, why do they hate us so?

Can they do that I ask? Now in a panic over losing what we have had, where we lived and now who we loved.



How could that lawyer say such bad things about us that our lawyer cannot even tell us, but that ashen look says he believes the other guy, that big imposing confident powerful I win every case I try attorney.



How little I knew then about the halls of just us.



Just us two people, so minor to the world, accused of heinous crimes without anyone calling the police.

Just us, two children who were taught to do as your parents say even if your parents wanted to beat you or accuse you and lie because someone told them to.

Just us, choosing then the wrong path, fear, afraid we would never see them again, fear we would have to lose everything we had worked for, fear of losing, fear of winning, afraid to the core.



Just us, our attorney already looking at us out of the corner of his eye, figuring the big I know everything attorney really meant that we are evil incarnate and if he says something, he must be telling the truth because he would not lie or bend the truth.



This is the halls of just us.