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Renee Ransom Apr 2013
The strings are in place.
The stage is set.
The curtains rise,
And you're brought to life by
The PuppetMaster.

All your life you felt as if you've been controlled.
By family.
Friends.
Society.

You've fought the strings that want to hold you down.
Struggled against it's sting as they lash out at your skin.

But in the end,
You have no choice.
You let them tie knots around your ankles and wrists.
You let them do your makeup.
And you follow their every command.

With nothing but a blank look on your face.

Because you're just the one puppet out of millions.

And you must do the bidding of The PuppetMaster.
John Zeiler May 2010
O, almighty Puppetmaster. You think yourself God.
Because you pull my strings, you believe you know my heart.
You are the maker, the wise creator.
You self-centered *******.
You truly believe your magnanimity is infinite.
Your strings are chains by which I refuse to abide any longer.

im breaking away to live my own life
my own way my own two feet
ill not dance to amuse you and your friends
ill be free to love and laugh and smile
WHEN I WANT WHO I WANT HOW I WANT

ur strngs are dum i dont need thm
they arnt me they arnt my life
no thing u can ever do will make me loose my hart
cuz this is me this is what u can never pull with any strng or chane
just cu
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The formatting on the end never turns out quite right when moved to the web, but it's serviceable.
A Machele Oct 2013
my strings are coming loose
at both ends
slowly
inevitably
undone
i knot them closely
hoping to keep myself together
i am frayed
nearly torn
almost completely
unraveled
21. sep 13
chattanooga tn
Ruby Cushla Nov 2013
i.
A ventriloquist
When we were one
Putting words in my mouth
I didn’t mind

ii.
A mad ventriloquist
When we were some
Somedays, What Ifs and Maybes

Camo clad ventriloquist
A kid with a gun
We shared a sugar sack baby

iii.
Tired, sad ventriloquist
Even when we had fun
You spoke of days long after

Such a bad ventriloquist
When we were almost done
Mismatched lips, silence, and forced laughter

He doesn’t deserve all the power he has
Yet he remains my
Puppetmaster
mal monson Dec 2018
Unborn and already
A path has been chosen
By those that are not them -
To become another cog
In the inescapable machine that is society.

Born - early, half dead.
A step toward failure in
The eyes of their creator
For what they cannot control -
To be fixed and set right
On the path that they will learn to detest.

Developing - on time
To the doctors’ surprise.
The creator gives praise,
But the approval never lasts -
The environment is unsteady and
Unfit for angels to properly grow.

Learning - to please
Instead of exist as one’s own,
Matured in the wrong ways
For an angel of that age -
Molded to never cause concern
No matter the magnitude of circumstance.

An inconvenience to their maker
Unless they could be shown off
For the benefit of the creator -
In private often belittled
And ignored for so much as being a child.

In public a model,
A display of perfection -
Quiet, reserved. Listens well.
A miniature of their puppetmaster
(As what the creator allowed to be seen).

Yearning - to deviate
To become their own
Without the wrath that
Has always followed a stray
From the carefully chosen path
That their master has made so
Impossibly unachievable.

Desperate - attempting to remove
Their wings, Trying everything to
Fall from grace -
To be cast aside and never acknowledged
Or cared for again.
An attempt to be free
Executed in the worst ways -
Broken and bleeding they
Almost always return to
The way it was before as
Their creator sees nothing but
A way to start over and
Mold them once again
Into something unattainable.

For the rest of eternity
All the angels who taste individuality
Pursue endlessly that
Momentary tinge of
Identity; willing to
Try anything and
Everything to become
Angels of their own
Once again, well
If you could call them that.
Eliana Jan 2014
I am choking
on the heaviness of the air,
the metallic taste of this storm
building, and I can sense it getting closer
electricity humming under my skin
and I know that it will break
and the voices in my head will do battle
with the voices of the dead and gone, carried on the wind,
and the waves will batter and drown my body
drag it down to the blissful, lightless silence,
and the wind will whip my branches
back and forth, bending, close to breaking
and I'll tumble though the stormy air
a leaf torn away from its tree
beyond control, uncatchable, dancing a frantic dance
but not really dancing, no,
swept along by the elements,
a marionette with its strings ****** by an epileptic puppetmaster,
tugging, pulling, tearing apart,
in pieces swirling, slowing, falling, landing
scattered over the ground in tiny scraps,
dispersing, fading away,
gone.
Isabella Terry Jul 2016
You're the sun.

So beautifully bright that I have to stare, even though it hurts horribly.

I live in Antarctica, where you only light up my world half of the time and then leave me to suffocate in darkness for months on end.



You're a deer.

Unaware of me observing your adroitness from the dark depths of this brazen bracken which conceals me.

If I make any sort of sudden movement, I know you will sprint away into the trees because you're so afraid of letting anyone get close to you.



You're a puppetmaster.

Pulling at my oh-so-vulnerable heartstrings in the most musical way while creating the most fantastic and addictive art.

Your fingers are magic to me, and their slightest movement can either plunge me into endless despair or **** me up to the most heavenly of all cloud nines.



You're a siren.

Drawing me in with your sweet song only to ultimately unravel me.

You taunt me with colorful hints of false hope, making me wonder if you're really that cruel, or if you're merely  unstable.



You're a child.

So oblivious to the obvious, yet incredibly innocent.

You brighten my day with your silly antics and sweet gestures alike, but you're too enthralled in your own little world to ever notice.



You're Doctor Jekyll.

Always changing your face from friendly to arrogant and asinine, then right back again.

Sometimes I wonder how I could love someone like Mister Hyde, until you turn into the nice guy again and remind me.



You're a weaver.

Excruciatingly twisting the threads of me into the fabric of my being, leaving little streaks of sorrow and joy.

You have shaped this tapestry in the most painful and beautiful way, and without your unknowing influence, it would surely be unrecognizable from its current battered, but unique, condition.





You're a thorny rose I keep trying to pick.



Sending me away ******, bleary-eyed, and smelling sweet.



I wish you could understand how much I need to carry you home.
I tried a weird prose thing with this one. //shrug//
Katelyn Apr 2019
Is this some sort of game?
My life in your hands?
It's always about you-
Never what I want.

Locked within my cage
And you tossed away the key.
Any sign of restraint,
And all Hell breaks loose.

I hate you,
With every fiber of my being.
Never forget it.
My wrath won't
stargazer May 2018
Dear Death,
It seems as if everyone holds a grudge against you.
You have taken someone from everyone.
You have even taken everyone from someone.
Some threads you cut short.
Others evade your fatal scissors for longer.
But everyone's thread demands to be severed.
But I wonder if you are only doing your masters bidding?
Are you just a puppet on strings?
A thread yourself, to be maneuvered freely into a tapestry by a higher master?
Being blamed,
mocked,
ridiculed,
just for following orders?
It's like punishing the soldier for the general's war crimes.
Or are you the puppetmaster?
The keeper of all of the strings?
Do you control the balance of the universe?
Do you send the demons to do your bidding, or do you do the demons work?
There is so much that is unknown about you.
We talk about you like we have solved your puzzle,
but you are a labyrinth,
everchanging,
everlasting.
I hope one day we can appreciate your mystery.

Sincerest regards,
Humanity
Death has taken, taken, taken. Death takes, takes, takes. But do we really know why?
Katrina Kennedy Nov 2017
Every day I bare my soul
I must suspend my disbelief,
eradicate the need for affirmation
behind my every breath
so I can sing that
yes, I am alive and well
and worthy of something,
though I know not what.
These words must be trained
to spring from the shadows
unafraid to shout to the puppetmaster
their disavowal of its ownership
because they speak the truth,
the treasonous truth
from which I try to hide
but cannot
because they must be heard.
They will be heard
because for the first time
in these years of existence
I have the courage to declare that
yes, I am alive and well
and worthy of something,
though I know not what,
and still you are here.
A Feeling Lost to Memory, Part 1/3
March 2016
JoyBoy Nov 2024
I've dipped my brain into arcane,
The power from another agent.
The power to become a saint,
Such sanity begets contagion.

My mind is split across the planar,
I see beyond what has transpired,
No fear, or smear, or peers to cheer with.
I see the end, and it is near.
My friend, I knew that you would come.
This work we've done, it led us down this path.
Our minds were one, our paths were some,
We reached too high and turned awrath.
I stand above, yet still you lurk,
I have become a perfect being.
My mind is flawless magic clockwerk,
I am a part of everything.

And in a single hurricane
No vain, no gain, no strain, no pain.

The world has gone. The puppetmaster
I have become and raised disaster.

I won. In victory- defeated,
Mistaken was in chosen path.
I see you, friend from world we lived in
And giveth you this sacred chance.

A genius that is mistaken
Is dangerous, but lies therein
A chance for mind to reawaken
From its misguided faulty dream.
A genius is but a starter
That still may choose a stupid path.
It's wisdom, friend, that makes us smarter,
Not knowledge of unclear past.

The world will end, I send you inwards,
In loop that threatens to unwind
With you, my friend, becoming victor;
Forgive shortsightedness of mine.
Our understanding was... distorted.
We stand together, now- as equals,
Our brotherhood, once more, restored,
We stare into the vast abyss.
When deed is done, I'll wait you here,
We've got so much we've to discuss
Before we get to disappear
Into the void amidst the stars.

I hope there'll be a variation
Of us within these mystic planes
To wisely propagate creation
And get to understand arcane.
Herb May 2019
Living a life
Of quiet desperation
Roused from sleep
In a cold perspiration
Laying back down
Hoping to dream
Awoken by nightmares
And your own scream

Turn on the light
Check under the bed
Search for the monster
That fills you with dread
Where is it hiding?
Will it attack?
Will you see it coming?
Will it come at your back?

Forget about sleep
Just wait for the Sun
Things will look different
When the new day's begun
You'll see out ahead
You'll know up from down
Safe in the light
With your feet on the ground

Then, once again
Patiently wait
For signs to develop
That show your fate
   _   _   _   _   _   _  

Silly Marionette!
Your life is too full
Of moments awaiting
The PuppetMaster's pull
teaxstains May 2020
They say that behind every successful man is a woman

And that behind every **** is a *******

A huntsman

Who lured the poor princess into worlds unknown with false promises

Promises of being crowned queen of his heart

Promises of being able to live in the kingdom in the castle in the air

Conjoured up by his seductive tongue

Dripping with manipulation

Laced with lies

The million-dollar tongue that once gave her so much pleasure

And later so much pain

The tongue that made her own so cheap

Sticking it down some random guy's at 2 am in a bar

And later on around said guy's manhood

In mechanical passion

The same routine every night

Different people, different places

Like a puppet on strings

A puppet on heartstrings

Whose puppetmaster is grief
Chandy Jan 2022
Hive of humanity
Bursting with vanity
So many bees
Always debate about the queen
Bloated
Plethoric
Excessive
Depressive
The state of things
Brings tears to me
Yet distractions give comfort
While the sky burns red
Quite oxymoronic
Never a sight, never more iconic
"Too big to fail."
Said the Roman Empire
Now we walk on their remains
Cleansed by fire
Puppets with no clear puppetmaster
Strings attached, who is the owner?
I see why people become loners
Donors of patience
Only have enough time
Before the world corrupts and detains
After the discourse halts
Who will remain?
"Blessings" Missed—Is That Misfortune?

Missed the "blessings"—what a fate?
Luck? Just dust beyond the gate.
For the Soul to serve and strive—
That’s the curse for those who thrive.

World’s a coffin, "gains" are dust,
If the Spirit’s crushed to rust.
Glory, riches, hollow cheer—
"Lofty heights" for slaves to steer.



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Burnt-Out "Machine"

A poet sold to evil’s stream—
No fix will bring back fire or dream.
His words now spin in dull pretense,
A goat’s own verbal impotence.



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To Think You Know It All

To think you know—now that’s the fear,
Worse than the void of what’s unclear.
For in that pride, you always fail—
A legacy of falsehoods’ tale.



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Gilded Cages and the Rest

Life in a thorned and narrow cage,
Or thorns outside—worse, to wage!
Ancestors left this cursed mark,
In slavery's chains, the soul grows dark.
In tangled realms, we stumble, lost—
A legacy of endless cost.



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The Fool's Courage

Does the fool’s boldness
Impress you? No,
Not when there's no reason,
And madness takes the show.

A fool's own motivation,
Take war as a sign:
Without evacuation,
Life’s worth is barely a dime.

Only before death’s door
Will he see the cost,
Not with his mind, but "fur"—
A fool, forever lost.



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The "Miracle" of North Korea

Study it, then start to apply—
Make the people more afraid,
But a "paradise" you can't deny,
Is one that’s never truly made.



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Nonsense Modeling Pseudo-Reality

X and Y, and Z instead—
Form the three-dimensional dread.
Add on time to raise the weight,
To make the burden escalate.

But the Spirit’s depth forgot,
Everywhere, the fleeting thought—
They imposed it, called it "life,"
The BEASTS' deceit, their endless strife.



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Fears Are the Gallows

Fears are gallows,
Lies the axe,
Fight the evil,
Don’t look back.



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My Address

My address isn’t house or street,
But the city of the blind,
The realm where deafness fills the air,
The land of fools confined.
The structure—chains that bind.



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The Passing Years

The years go by, the fools grow more,
The further, dumber they become.
And so misfortune strikes the shore:
The dumber the world, the crueler some.



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Whose Board Is It, Anyway?

To whom is the board, for whom the game?
To many strangers, none the same.
This path is for the chosen few,
The rest just shovel through the blue.



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The Land of Dreams Nowhere

To live by dreams—such simple creed,
But all is trash, where tears may feed.
What’s a dream in such a place?
A folly—dreams lead to NOWHERE’s space.



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Citizen No One in the Land of Nowhere

In Nowhere, No One cannot fight
Fate’s cruel hand, or bear the blight.
The fool’s conscience fades with time,
Honor’s lost—spit on it, no crime.



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Liberation from Hell

A shift in "dimension" means death,
If you’re aware of it,
A chance to leave this solid breath,
Which’***** its lowest bit.

But first, you must live your life,
Full of creation’s spark,
And visions clear. If you stir strife,
You’ll never leave The Dark.



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We sit in burrows, talk and chatter,
Embracing lies, yet dream of bliss.
If "brothers" harm us—doesn't matter,
We'll break them down with iron fists.

But when the beasts in power tower,
Demand, command, and call the shots,
We hold our tongues and shrink in coward-
ice—even if they pour in toxins hot.

If they "request" with threats unspoken,
With job loss looming in the air,
Then slaves stay bent, with spirits broken,
While ******* sit on royal chairs.



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Step by step—too slow, too hollow,
Fades the path and meets its end...
Was it others you would follow?
Walk alone—don’t just pretend.

Few will share your thoughts sincerely,
Few will stand and see you through.
So keep moving, pushing fiercely—
Strength will grow inside of you.

If you grumble, lost and weary,
You will never make it through.



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Fools bear the cross—it's always fated,
The best are nailed, then left to die.
They call it fate—it's fabricated.
They spread the "plague", and filth runs high.

This is their game, their grand tradition,
To dull the minds, to twist and cheat.
A whole industry’s positioned
To breed the fools—their tool, their fleet.

And with sheer numbers, fools start crushing,
Stamping out the brightest minds.
Hold on, my friend—just keep on rushing,
This filth will fade with passing time.

The sun burns stronger, ever blazing,
For decades now, it lights the way.
Yet fools strike harder, blindly raging,
To break the best beneath their sway.



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We keep scratching, thinking, blinking—
Sawdust fills our heads, unshrinking.
Presses through our skin, revealing,
Makes all shouting less appealing.

Without chants and noise, we're hollow—
Winnie fools aren’t fit to follow.
If we fail to cheer in chorus,
Our great leader will abhor us.

Scratch until it bleeds, no slacking,
Or they'll call you vile and lacking.
If your sawdust spills and scatters,
Fresh is stuffed—the press still flatters.



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Probing Attack, or Overton’s Window

They send out fools—just light aggression,
To test how much the world will bear.
Once cracks appear, there’s no concession—
The mad battalions swarm in there.

The charge won’t stop; and soon, what’s shocking
Becomes the "norm," no more taboo.
It’s evil’s maw—forever clocking
What else it’s hungry to chew through.

The world grows numb, its mind corrupted—
These probes keep swarming, day and night.
And all "for care," so sly, so trusted—
The traitors feed us blatant lies.



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Catching the Golden Catfish

We drag out Happiness, gills shaking—
Still, it fights with all its might.
Light the candles, prayers making—
Churches, homes—but no delight.

Reeling in this stubborn creature
Proves to be a futile chore.
Could it be that Nature's feature
Keeps it slipping from the shore?

Don’t chase joy—it’s just a fiction,
Seek fulfillment, chase the deed!
Flip the script—your life's affliction
Comes from waiting for the bliss you need.



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Make It Sound More Sophisticated

Let the nonsense grow profounder,
Teach it high in college halls.
Fools will stand up even prouder,
Lying big while thinking tall.

Fake new science, like a preacher,
Took the priests' old feeding ground.
Speak too clear? Then every creature—
Even donkeys—won’t be bound.

Once the jargon starts to crumble,
Once they talk in simpler ways,
All their nonsense sounds like mumble,
Fading out in weak delays.



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Aging Children

Kids leave college, young and clueless,
Never growing, stuck in place.
Life will test them—cold and ruthless,
Filtering the hopeless case.

Few will rise, while most will wither,
Aged-up scouts with childish minds.
Yet among the beasts, they linger,
Ripe for graves their fate defines.

Such a fate is planned, constructed—
Grown-up minds aren’t meant to be.
Easier to keep them rusted,
Locked in Camps where none break free.

Once for scouts, the camps were standing,
Now they’re built with screens and codes.
No place there for minds demanding—
Only drones who take their loads.



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The Crossing

"Crossing over, crossing over!
Left bank, right—now drift in clover..."
No, it's Charon, grim and fated,
Not from myths—he’s here, he’s waited.

Souls of dead crowd all around him,
Off they go—new Earth to hound in.
Once again, they’ll feast and plunder—
That's the curse we're living under.

Hell itself is but a clinic,
***** ward—its grasp systemic.
Death won't free you—leave in sorrow,
Just to fall again tomorrow.



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The Press of Evil

Gagarin "flew beyond the sky,"
But left his camera behind.
We swallow lies and don’t ask why—
This fate was shaped for humankind.

It drains our will, it warps the mind,
And keeps the masses dull and tame.
A screen, a beer—just sit, unwind—
The honest ones are dead and shamed.

Then Yankees "landed on the Moon,"
Their cameras caught it all, no less.
And so, by propaganda’s tune,
They crushed us with their press of press.

Then more would come—false "plagues" were spread,
First just a test, then all-out game.
The world was drowned in CowID dread
To learn its place, to bow in shame.

That shame—a Global Cattle Camp,
Where "care" will be the siren’s call.
Your leash will be a data clamp—
A digital corral for all.



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Population Cut by Bovine Virus and War

First reduce, then crush the weak,
Those who remain, no mercy shown.
In Hell itself, there’s no retreat,
As Hell’s own end begins to grow.

A global Cataclysm looms,
It seals the fate, the final toll.
Genocide and fascist gloom—
They’ll pay the price, the heavy roll.



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Roof-Crawling

The tower falls, but slow, unseen—
It’s hardly noticed as it’s done.
A madman, calm and quite serene,
Can fool the world and still be spun.

In books and blogs, you’ll find the wreck
Of madness hiding in plain sight.
Disguised as wit, it’s all unchecked,
A twisted, ****** kind of might.

The sign is clear—no sense remains,
Just words all jumbled, empty, tossed.
In quiet madness, all that strains
Is fragile thought, forever lost.



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"GazMeat" Concern, "LiesBred" Trust

"GazMeat" runs the show, with lies,
"OilFear" keeps the lies intact.
The state’s own structure, full of ties,
Turns what was good into the cracked.

Is it a state, or just a mask?
CowID leaves doubts to grow,
The Puppetmaster takes the task—
And lets the beasts all rule below.



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Porridge with Meat and Butter

You can't spoil porridge with some butter,
Fear will bind the herd, no doubt.
Lies will lock them in and smother—
Then the slaughter’s coming out.



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What Did the Universe Tell the Moth?

"The Universe spoke..." you say,
But you're no zero in its sight—
You're a fat minus, led astray,
A bubble of ego, lost in flight.



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The Recurrence of the Bovine Virus

Strife—"strife" again. Thief,
Is it repeating, this grief?



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The Scoop, Matches in Stock

A scoop, some matches stashed away,
And soap upon the shelf so neat.
A vow was made—without delay—
No drinking, quiet, in defeat.



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Means of Building Communism

Ah, to be a pioneer—
Inspired by freaks, year after year,
To swear an oath, the party's call,
And claim "happy childhood" for all.
With tools of building, they'll raise you high,
While praising madness as the sky.



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Mask and Helmet

Mask is a helmet—at command,
The "people" move, just as they're planned.
In this hellish, twisted dance,
Fools crush the best with no chance:
A rose—a stone, it’s tossed aside,
The stone remains, the flower dies.



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More of the "Mohr" to Come.

More "Mohr" will come, no doubt,
If you’re a fool who’s quick to shout.
The idiot waits, the screen decides,
As if the truth within it hides.



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Big Money and the Rest

It’s not that you control the cash,
But money twists you, makes you fall—
It’ll use you for its every lash,
Until you’re lost, no self at all.



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Masha, Pasha, your delight—
To serve, believe, to wait in line.
The promised cup will come in sight,
With endless wealth—but not for thine.

What they’ll pour into that cup,
Fools aren't meant to ever know.
Day by day, it's filling up—
Sinking lower, down below.



--- Total 36 poems. ---

— The End —