More Haiku from Kevin Ginsberg

try this on for size
close up your heart for three years
then go live your life

ev'rything i learned
as a kindergartene
law school tried to quash

that's really a lie
law school doesn't try to quash
that's just an excuse

my experience
is that law school and the law
are lonely and sad

they don't get respect
for being agents of change
because of their past

well, let's face it, though
the past:  adversarial
(well what's wrong with that?)

nothings wrong with it
it's gotten us to the point
where we are at now

win-lose paradigm
has produced great victories
for justice and peace

emancipation
(though that involved compromise)
Brown v. Board of Ed.

the rights of women
to choose, instead of old men,
bodily issues

but we're ready now
for the law to catch up with
the rest of the world

for the law to lead
the rest of the world as well
for the law to be

the future's win win
also, the future is now
law can be happy

physics, genetics
somatics, psychology
medicine and more

all the sciences
have been realizing that
we are connected

i know the law knows
that we effect each other
all is relative

but we are all one
means getting past punishment
blame, guilt, right, wrong, lose

it is illusion
that the world is zero sum
physicists say so

is this just woo-woo
wannabe do good lawyers
trying to make noise?

some things just can't change
right?  you are not serious?
visionary law?

holistic lawyers?
what are you tring to do?
transform the system

there is a movement
everyone's invited
the whole world's playing

really, no big deal,
critical mass of people
expressing themselves

that's all that change is
the funny thing about it
is that this whole time

we've been complaining
about how society
is going to hell

in a handbasket!
we've been talking like we were
in some way distinct

from society
like the system was at fault
and we were victims

we are the system!
we are society! and
that is exciting

because now we see
with clarity and vision
what we created

by complicity
ignorance, greed, avarice
mostly by silence

and resignation
that the way it's always been
is how it will stay

which is true of course
until we decide to be
something different

there have always been
amazing lawyers making
amazing breakthroughs

now there are thousands
tomorrow there'll be millions
no big deal really

just the direction
that the world is heading now
that lawyers are hearts

try this on for size
become part of the movement
transform the system

you can even click
renaissance lawyer.com
and see for yourself