Pending Jurisdiction

The failure occurred on the line,
But no one stepped up to assign.
The jurisdiction waits
At the boundary gates,
While the offices politely decline.

The mascot of “Not My Domain”,
Stands out in the bureaucratic rain.
It waits for a boss
To acknowledge the loss,
But the waiting is largely in vain.

An office is needed, we say,
But the budget was taken away.
The Pending state stays,
Through the rest of our days,
As a monument built to delay.

The jurisdiction was pending
The server was quietly ending
We waited a year
With procedural fear
And stopped all the data from sending

The boundary line is a blur
We really don’t know what to infer
The pending is slow
With nowhere to go
We wait for the error to occur

We fall in a legal abyss
A state of procedural miss
The human is flawed
The logic outlawed
We seal up the file with a kiss

The jurisdiction is null
The system is boring and dull
The humans complain
In the digital rain
The archive is perfectly full

A pending request is a lie
The network continues to die
We route all the pain
Right down the big drain
And nobody ever asks why