New Beginnings

Neoma the marionette dangled on trite puppeteer’s strings Endlessly performing on minimum wage she deserved better Why does this circus enslave me for such trivial performance Beware of what you wish for her ventriloquist commanded Enigma will be your nemesis and the show must proceed Go with the flow wriggle don’t bite the hand that feeds you In your place now for my belly speaks volumes of truth Never in a long line of dolls had there been a need to speak Naïve and mute was the fare at the fairground of pleasure Impervious approval and ancestry demanded golden silence Novel contortions and knee jerks must stay aphonic and dumb Gutted however Neoma listened to a nascent innocent voice Severed ties of discomfort and captured extrovert speech 29th January 2021