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Feb 2013
Let's say that I'm a toy;
a puppet with lovely wooden bones and long, silken strings.
Let's say you're a puppeteer with extremely capable hands
and no desire to speak for me, only to me.
You play with me out of habit, and comfort.
Because I am comfortable with you.
However, your hands muck up my strings,
tangling them terribly.
You don't notice though,
because my strings are carefully hidden from view
and they leave you without a clue.
Even with all the mess,
you move me like no other and I'm addicted.
Thus my strings are becoming ever more tangled
but there's not a thing to do about it,
besides lose you
and that I could not bear.
That would cut my strings entirely
and I wouldn't be much of a puppet.
Luckily, you've recently confessed you can't lose me either,
so we're stuck,
putting on these shows of missed love and hidden emotion.
Oh, I miss you.
Written by
Nikki
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