Disappointed

Disappointed

By Frank Bolaji Irawo

Adjudged to be guilty

Failing to live up to expectations

Set out in a covert contract

Never signed by the defendant

Its terms and conditions

Set out by the plaintiff

Based on standards never spoken

Disappointed cause they never showed up

To an appointment

In response to an invitation never issued

Unhappy about the conduct of another

Failing to meet standards

Set up by life experiences

Foreign to the offender

Written in invisible thoughts

Hatched in the head of the accuser

They just never stood a chance to comply

For that which they never did apply

But they felt the full power of a judgment

Issued by a biased judge and jury

Compromised by a different worldview

Unknown to the accused as the golden standard

To meet is to approach from both sides

They have their own standards

They have their own expectations

A meeting of minds and an overt contract later

Justice may then be better served