Just One Lawyer
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It takes over $200,000 to make just one lawyer
It takes blood, sweat, and tears just to impress an employer
After seven years of academic strife
Here’s the job that just might change my life
Summer after summer in month-long internships
Writing paper after paper to just get a grip
On a dream that makes it seem like I’ll never get to sit
After dealing with the unappealing system of faulty politics
How will I get the job you ask?
My theory constitutes series of complicated tasks
Those that require dedication and hard work;
Those that will make the honest and uncorrupted smirk
Those that will put the misrepresented in a better place
Those that will put a smile on the underdog’s face
Those that will bring justice and equality to a world that’s so corrupt
These tasks are ones that will simply interrupt
The game that’s played by the wealthy and those with immoral power
A game that has been played to the very hour
This is a game that can be stopped with rigorous education
But the obstacle we face is its rising costs in our nation
Right after college, I plan to go to law school
Here I will gain every useful tool
That will help me in the field of forensics
To help others who are injured or sick
And others who simply don’t understand the law;
Those whose circumstances would leave one in awe
To make it in a field such as this
One needs financial support, dedication, and wits
Of the three, one stands out as a growing necessity
However, each of the three are very important to me
There is a growing need for financial support
Though resources are items that we learn how to sort
Into not only our present, but also our future lives
But there is one thing I’ve come to realize
It takes heart, trust, and compassion to make just one lawyer
It takes time, patience, and education to take down an exploiter
Stopping those who inflict years of strife;
This is what makes becoming a lawyer one job that just might change my life