Offender Locked up.Blocked up.Shut down.Pulse-beat calls the air shortand fear tinges the spaces betweenwhere deep breath cannot reach.Understood phrases sink deepinto the darkness of nothing seen.Cold eyes gaze upon trembling formunwilling to glimpse hope or love,and no words suit the replylest the offended claimpoints to repay.Five? Ten?Might as wellcount back the spirit lost while awaiting the consequence... of failing ...again unforgiven.