Jonathan Crouch - For a World That's Just

If the world were just,
you'd have been my hero,
in a world that's just,
you'd have been my friend,
but let us not pretend,
we will never see that end,
for if justice were a date,
we came, but we came too late.

Jonathan Crouch

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