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A Prisoner To His Guard.

By Beryl Spencer-Scarr

1990

You have the power to control

My hours of waking and sleeping.

My privacy for weeping.

You even control my friends and visiting hours.

My view of the sun and the flowers.

You cause the loss of my dignity.

But – you cannot control my fantasies

Or take away my memories.

A Prisoner To His Guard.by Beryl Spencer-Scarr

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