gently used! wrote the sign taped to my back

before this
i used to be the full package
performed everything as advertised
loved wholly
moved as desired
you'd pull my string and i'd be alive
tugged over & over
each time a new performance

tugging soon became yanking
you programmed new acts into me
my timidity was your entertainment
you mistook my silence as acceptance
i thought submissiveness was the answer

i became gently used

just another hand-me-down
yet i didn't wait to be found
i lost count of how many people like you yanked my string
your programmed acts remained
my silence stayed solely in my brain

use me! screams the sign stapled to my back
the last one like you added to the bottom:
"will do anything 4 love"