Compassion

  Sentence

   I know what it's like

  to serve time under

  a sentence without 

    possibility of parole.



       To be given a diagnosis

  by a man in a white

  coat sitting high and

  mighty on his stool.



    No empathy in the 

sentencing, just

             You have broken the law

       of normal, you have



        such-and-such disease.

  Period.  A sentence

       and