One of the most expensive things the Commissioners Court has to deal with is the cost of keeping people in jail. ~ Hon. Margaret Keliher 

When I try to limit your impact on my life
by holding you at bay, by resenting you,
by talking to others of your betrayal,
by recruiting folk to “my side,”
I hold at least one of us imprisoned,
and she is me. I cannot restrain you,
stop your perfidy. And when I try
my hands, my life, are filled with the struggle.
When I choose to accept I cannot change you,
when I keep my eyes on my side of the street,
when I have courage to change what I can — me —
I am freed from the prison of resentment
while you, untangled from my strings,
might choose to change what you could.