The Tie That Binds [Poem]

[Underground_Network]

Terminate my thoughts
And terrorize my temperance.
Force it down my throat
And claim that I'm intemperate.

Deny my right to speak my mind,
Liberate yourself by jailing me
Behind closed doors
Where no one hears you scream
Or ever sees your scars.

Then make me drink the dreaded drink,
Make me think those dreaded thoughts,
Break my soul and torture my mind,
Do what you will,
But don't break my spine.

Don't sever the tie
Between thought
And despair,
The tie that binds
My toes to my hair.

It's not exactly direct,
But without it I'm dead...
Destroy what I have,
Destroy what I want,
But please don't destroy
What I desperately need.

Make waste of my mind,
Make useless my soul,
But do not destroy
My one and only
Spine.

It holds me up,
And keeps me going
Even when the pain is throbbing,
Even when despair, it kills,
I survive, not by popping pills
But by standing tall
Just for thrills.

My spine,
My spine,
It's right aligned.
Without my spine,
I'll never be fine,
My spine,
My spine,
Don't break,
My spine.