Never Surrender

You can take from me My precious freedom You can forever cage me Like a wild animal You can try to train me Like some kind of puppy You can whip the hell out of me Until my back is skinless You can blind me With a welder's torch You can rob me of my hearing By hammering nails in my ears You can cut out my tongue And starve me to death You can stitch together my lips And silence my boldest protests You can cut off my fingers and hands So I can no longer sew your clothes You can saw off my toes and feet So I cannot march anymore Yet you cannot rob me Of my most precious gift You cannot steal The soundness of mind The power to think freely And to simply visualize