Clem 2 Poem by Charlotte Peters Rock

Don't remove my pleasure and my honour.
Don't destroy my hope and my endeavour.
Don't collude, to take from me, forever,
Every moral standard I hold dear.

If you take each legal point I'm fighting,
if you understand my code for living,
if you care to see the life I'm grieving,
every moral standard I hold dear.

When this battle's over, if it's lost then,
when I'm left alone and count the cost then,
when I realise my hopes were just, then
every moral standard I hold dear.

I won't give my ground, if they should kill me.
I won't give them right to over rule me.
I won't give them credence, to control me.
Every moral standard I hold dear.

18Jun1991 CPR