In letting you pay your fine
in installments,
I am considering your pain.
By not requiring you to pay
more than you will have to
if you pay in a lump,
I am considering my own:
it's for the compassion for others
that I gain from it,
not from being seen to gain,
that I am self-inflicting pain.
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