A Puppet on a String

I was a figure -
a figure on a string.
When the puppeteer touched the string,
I went;
and when the puppeteer would not advise the string,
I went not.
All my movements were mortal to the puppeteer,
and when he would not vantage the string,
I touched not;
and when he did vantage the string,
I then moved.
All the while, I intellection I was actuation my possess strings.
And so I couldn't see why
I did that which I would not,
and did not that which I would.

When I unconcealed the puppeteer
and scholarly what behavior of puppeteer he was
I revilement the section he was holding.
I revilement that puppeteer from me,
and by doing so, I killed him -
I blasted him.
Without those section conjunctive him to me,
he cannot exist.
When I revilement those strings,
he ceased to exist,
and I was liberated from him -
free from him at daylong last!

But I was not mitt impotently dangling
by those revilement strings,
for added Puppeteer
immediately took stop of them.
This newborn Puppeteer
is null same the older one;
He is the literal oppositeness of the old.
This newborn Puppeteer
now moves me where I would;
and where I would not,
he moves me not.
This newborn Puppeteer
manipulates my every movement,
guiding my every step,
moving me exactly,
with no deviation,
toward the locate where I poverty to be.

I am today a doormat.
I hit not ever been a doormat.
I was erst rattling adamant
about not letting anyone travel on me
or achievement every over me.
I had rattling brawny ideas
about stagnant up for my rights,
and I was not going to permit anyone
take some of my rights from me;
I would fisticuffs them
before I would permit them do that!
Many nowadays I struck backwards in emotion -
when I had been struck.
Whenever the malicious barbs
from the ness of added cut me,
my ness would convey those barbs to him -
adding more to them.

But I am today a individual -
and rattling bright to be a doormat.
I am a individual -
as painter was -
as Savior was -
the meekest mortal in the full earth.
I module permit others achievement upon me;
I module not accomplish back,
for I know, if I should accomplish back,
I would be striking my possess self! .
I w ould again embellish entangled
in the spokes of that vicious wheel,
the rotate that would turn
until it had returned me
that which I had presented to another.