No Rack Can Torture Me

Text: Emily Dickinson

No rack can torture me,
My soul’s at liberty.
Behind this mortal bone
There knits a bolder one

You cannot prick with saw,
Nor rend my scymitar.
Two bodies therefore be;
Bind one, and one will flee.

The eagle of his nest
no easier divest
And gain the sky,
Than mayest thou,

Except thyself may be
Thine enemy;
Captivity is consciousness,
So’s liberty.