Presumed Innocent

Sweaty sleepless cells
no daylight to tell  
the passing of dead time  
have I already been found guilty    
of alleged crime?  
No fresh air no chance to clean    
missed meals of malnutritious microwave cuisine    
two nights two days in the same stinking clothes    
looking my worst as the court bus rolls  
No I must not speak for I have given the right    
to a dutiless solicitor to take up the fight    
In and out the court resumes    
stood in convicted grey    
can you honestly say  
my innocence will be presumed?  
   
Are the police above the law?  
as they step on ‘the easy to ignore’  
then plead to the magistrates command    
to place me on remand    
who put protocol above the truth    
behind bars I cannot gather proof  
I must fight my case with both hands tied    
as the system takes me for a ride  
Removed me from my life with haste    
leaves one with a bitter taste    
or maybe that’s the pepper spray illegally consumed    
Has my innocence been at all presumed?  
   
   
Written for all the people who do not matter,    
‘the easy to ignore’