Broken Back

Lifting a load of stored clothes In the house 

Crack went the back What a terrible noise 

All the way up

The spine it went

A terrible feeling 

All over my being

Something terribly wrong 

With full bodily sound

Woe filled my soul

With a heart filled bound

With a sound that could be heard

All around the town

The doctors could only wonder

Why I wasn't in pain

As later that day

So close to the spine 

Inches from the backbone

The vertebrae they found