There are rules for everything
Everything you can possibly think of
Written, documented and circulated as well
Read out and notified to all
(Mis)Understood and signed by all as well
Stacked up in piles of files
That anyone has bothered
To revisit, revise
Other than religiously follow
Crippling and clipping off the wings of trust, faith and empathy
Filling the air with apathy
Telling you
You are not what you are
And what you do is not done
For its not what has been written
Neither meets the elaborate stipulated rules and regulations
Expressed in the domains of rigid bureaucracy