The Reckoning

It’s difficult
to find one’s own language
in the face of unrecognizable violence

It’s difficult
recognize the violence in its structure,
that hides behind rules,
to pick up the numbers, achievements, people

And the rule is itself
no law seems to apply alongside her
powerful are the (private) apparatuses that support them
as long as money flows
And yet it is not a power
There are forces fighting each other,
want to gain advantages by means of rules,
where the destruction begins

For who believes the words of
Commonality
in the face of unequal distribution,
refusal to pay for services

The power of violence disintegrates
in the face of injustices, the interests of
But in the decay
the Grimace of brutality is visible

Deaths are accepted
in all naturalness
Annihilations have already begun
Reason becomes the slogan of oppression
The public light is dimmed
through advertisements

The open sciences were deprived of their money
The Arts Busy with Forms
Laying the finger
on each item of the invoice
costs time and money,
that are not equally available to everyone

II

And yet it is true that
To walk through the door
Behind which the law is hidden
Past the guardian who is fear

And yet, with this step, it is
not done
For what Justitia weighs,
is first to be put on the scales

Because she’s not looking for truth
Justitia renders judgments
according to evidence and laws
and also according to one’s own consideration

She is met with mistrust
of the powerful
because it has its history that reaches into the present
the inequality of possibilities is evident

III

The services have been provided
The Statement of Accounts Submitted
Each document was given the factual and
legal correctness recognized by the power

And yet the power sue
because the power didn’t like a critique
in a battle between her and other powers
which had a clear effect

In the battle between Black-Blue and the
Red Vienna
Hundreds were harmed
Existences questioned, annihilated

Inequality in the allocation of funds
across borders
unfair controls
that did not strike the unrighteous

Money is made in the name of the law
The dismantling of state administration
leads to the multiplication of profits
including large corporations

This, too, is a merit of the nationalists
who rejected a constitution
to deceive the arms
so that they vote for their own slaughter

It’s an arduous battle
in silence
for screamers will be
silenced

And yet it thaws
Winter torpor on
many call for violence
Hatred is making its way into the public sphere

A hatred that creates new injustices
in the middle of a world of dying people seeking protection
the erection of new fences
waging an undeclared war