The Fatal Call

She gave the sentence Tying up the string Making the man the puppet With such a glorious sunshine He was drenched in darkness Blinded to all within a bursting crowd He sank a step deeper He shouted his plead In a room full of silence Prompting a deadly stagger Further to the deep He turned to all with arms out stretched Making a lifetime connection only with deaden flesh Keeping in touch with all But never getting a call at all He entered the now merging darkness Emerging with stiffened hopes He edged on Damned by the many sentences He answered the fatal call