No gavel drop
Or chance to appeal
No way to stop
Just pray that you'll healA sentence achieved
Without aid of a trial
You've just been receivedOn the dead man's mileYou'll walk all alone
As others just stare
For your sins you atone
Just in case that they careThe fear becomes numbing
However, pain still gets through
You think you'd be bumming
But you're stoic and trueYour crime doesn't matter
As the sentence remains
Your world it will shatter
As you swallow the painsYou accepted the sentence
Like the man that we see
Never a reference
To why now or why me?Fighting to beat it
Is the best you can do
You'll need every last bit
Of your strength to pull throughThis sentence is unjust
Not fitting the crime
But as the bars rust
You're just starting hard timeYou're just not imprisoned
You're threatened as well
Will the ultimate decision
Be to die in this hell?For a victimless crime
A fine you should pay
Whether a buck or a dime
We'll pay it this dayHow can your crime
Be having lived in this world
To run out of time
With your fate not unfurledShall I name the infraction
Or perhaps state the facts
There was no criminal action
No illegal actsHe spends his time
On his family and friends
A best friend of mine
He'll be till it endsThe crime not distinguished
But the sentence is plain
His freedom relinquished
To chemo and pain