In "Suicide Note" by Janice Mirikitani, examine the presence of justice.

If justice
is being defined as judgment, then I would suggest that the speaker of the poem sees suicide as
a forum where justice is possible. It is evident that the speaker in the poem has not found any
redemption or justice in this life.  There is constant and persistent analysis that indicates
the speaker sees themselves as a failure in this being.  "Disappointment," "not
good enough," and the shortcomings in "trying to please" are all in theof the
poem.  There is a reflection of "penance" in the idea that if the speaker takes their
own life, they can find a realm where justice is evident.  This is seen in the closing of the
poem:

Perhaps when they find me 
they will
bury 
my bird bones beneath 
a sturdy pine 
and scatter my feathers
like 
unspoken song 
over this white and cold and silent 
breast of
earth.

The closing of the poem seems to indicate that
suicide and thereafter is a representation of justice.  It is a projection of the redemption and
sense of unity that is absent in the fragmentation of this life for the speaker.  It is here
where justice can be seen, in terms of resolution and sense of harmony.  This is not an entirely
happy or vision of contentment, but it is one in which the speaker understands clearly that
justice is only possible through leaving this condition of being.