Unelected billionaire,
Puppeteering the POTUS...
Money-stringing corruption:
A democratic country,
Lunching its democracy:-
It is an unfortunate reality,
Those most able to tie word and misery -
Are most often the least spoken.
They are capable of divining the self,
Pulling out streams of emotion.
- Emotion that is far heavier than simple tears.
The words pull at their friends' heartstrings,
Puppeteering their empathy,
Taking all the warmth that they had too.
That's the curse of an ailed writer,
only knowing ink and page -
because paper doesn't cry.
Awa……..y
When I think of her
Pa
I
N is broken u
…………….p
Simply by her shadiows touch
Reason to draw a breath
less is MORE
No word made
My man an naw
Descript a crypt
Enviou IIN
a feather
against her worst
Do
Due
To
You
Muppets of the puppeteering
Steering luring leering
No Kermit’s
No guns
How many jobs
to diss a semble (poor sembles)
I can never not see her
Even if she’s knot
There
The air
The heir not their
And drew
a breadth
Ahead…Princely miles
Smiles that time
Rested
in envy
Subtle it's subversion it just catches the eye.
Can't tell which diversions really the greater lie.
Take caution it's pervasive yet it goes undetected.
Subconsciously persuasive now your mind is infected.
Unknowingly you've now become part of the collective.
Working towards your own downfall is the directive.
Everyone's unique but that dare not be expressed.
Step outside the lines and find you're being oppressed.
Question the insanity you're seen as defective.
Grow your mind on clarity and gain some perspective.
The powerful are driven by a need for control.
Empathy is weakness basically rigmarole.
Feeding the division to keep everyone confused.
Far from idle hands are puppeteering the used.
Shadow games the projections are finely curated.
Join the dots the picture shows it's all fabricated.
The bright lights come on the curtain is set
A clattering of wooden heads survey
Puppeteering all those nodding dolls
Tied to heads and woken up by strings
A song a dance to a rhythmless beat
The puppets now on their wobbly feet
My favourite marionette comes down
To do his act and slay, the mighty king
rescues his queen from a bunch of bandits
With swords they draw a fight in play
Enchanted now all eyes glued the story
unfolds, our fingers chewed.
Alas! puppeteering is going extinct
Too hard to survive in this modern world
‘A puppet now dangling from a string.’
27.2.2021
Vanishing.
You're tough on yourself,
unnecessarily,
for what you've lost
and wish to have again.
Guess what?
You were never meant
to have whatever that is
in the first place!
You remain dejected
about the fork on the road
you never took.
Big deal.
You were never meant
to take that fork
to begin with!
There's no use
saddling yourself with what ifs.
Resign yourself to fate!
Everything happens for a reason.
Put regret
in your rearview mirror
and be at peace.
It shouldn't be
That enduring ghost
haunting you
time and time again
It shouldn't be
The strings puppeteering you.
Regret is a small fish
To be thrown back to the sea.
Date written and posted: 03/24/2019
Perpetual posturing
Stuck anchored down by the positioning of a perfect picture
A perfect picture with no permission to persist
Descending to this consumption
Piss and vinegar in a pill capsule to portray the presumption
Of a petulant peasant painted in peer-pressure
Puppeteering the pendulum of a parent in postpartum
Part of the play
This pig patronized in pestilence
Penance awarded by the penetration in post mortem
Part of the play, it is
This is the way down
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