The Puppet Master

                                            I am but a marionette

                                            Twirling and twisting

                                           At the end of the puppeteer's strings.

                                             I know not his name.

                                              It does not matter,

                                             For he is every man I have loved and

                                               Every soul I have ever known.

                                              The string is my heart

                                               And I sway to each tug

                                               Of the puppeteer's whims.

                                                For I have no mind of my own.

                                                It has been lost in the subjugating

                                                Rules of society

                                         And burned in the heat

                                                 Of my young lover's lust.

                                                My smile has been painted on.

                                         And my heart has shrunk and whithered

                                             As society played its mindless games

                                                         And ripped the child

                                                   From its mother's tender arms.

                                                And I turn to the opiates

                                                      Dredged up by society

                                                           To help me forget.

                                          And I cry alone in the coal black night

                                                 Until I can cry no more.

                                                        And I dance to the tug of the

                                                            Marionette's whims.