I feel as if you are holding me by my throat
With the ropes of my own anxiety

Yanking the rope tighter and tighter
While I suffocate with no control

Why do you do these things?
Can't you control your own lives and not mine?
I have done nothing to deserve this ...

I would speak but I feel so tightly wrapped
Around their power
That I haven't any left

How does one free themself?
How do I free myself?