1. By your life, justice is a word whose practice
Is simple, yet its essence is difficult.

2. An active mind imagined it
As evidence for people who stumbled in life.

3. The defeated interpret it as something contrary
To what the victor interprets and explains.

4. And when the rulers saw it as a projectile
That would shake their whims and destroy them,

5. And found no escape from accepting it
To satisfy those deceived by justice, they fooled,

6. They corrupted it with their interpretations,
Laws in the name of justice that forbid and command.

7. Indeed, the keen heart of the hungry poor
Was more deserving of prosperity and wealth.

8. And the foolish arrogant one was more deserving
Of deprivation, nakedness, and hunger.