Threshold

I've been dealt a losing hand
Drawing lines across the sand
Whose meaning I can't understand
Cause mathematics has been banned

Used to think that one and one
Added up to two in sum
Now they say it's all or none
Arithmetic has been undone

Science should let numbers talk
Not let perpetrators walk
Who can count the victims lost
To criminals who've not been caught

Draw a threshold throw away
The evidence from DNA
Release a killer who should stay
In prison till his dying day

I am a public employee
The people pay my salary
Yet I pretend I cannot see
The data right in front of me

The rules are written from on high
I follow them but know not why
Trained to make the numbers lie
As innocents are raped or die

I rather would use TrueAllele^®
Interpret DNA for real
Let the evidence reveal
Thugs who slash and shoot and steal

But instead I make believe
Ignoring what I plainly see
Science slips to sorcery
As thresholds make a mockery
Of DNA as it should be