Submissions by meganxfaith

Puppet on a string
Do as they command
dance you little puppet
they’re waiting for a show
 
don’t talk back you silly idiot
they have guns in the closet
perform and it’s over
but only for tonight
 
Remove the straps from your shoulders
sway your hips
“Don’t fucking cry bitch!”
They’re getting angry
do as your told
they pull the strings harder
and harder you must obey
 
The neighbors hear you screaming
but they never come out of their white picketed perfect world to realize
there is evil in this world
you never...

Out walking the streets so mean
Making friends with the enemy
The drugs made you prone to seduction
Bringing yourself down to your own destruction
Pills, pills, pills
They paid your bills
Cigarette smoke and marigold
Cat of the night
Picking a fight
My sister is uncontrolled

You’re the oldest of three
Wise and strong you seemed to be
But you were hiding under lock and key
But this is not the end
Look up
I’ve been standing here
Waiting just waiting
To take your hand
And bring you back to the living

Hearts on strings
are such pretty things
Dripping ruby red
On the laminate floor
Old and young but he wants more
 
The heart,
A cavity of blood and arteries
The central station
A place for love and hate
A beating nonstop flow
Of emotion
and function
It fascinates him so
 
When hung on strings
The pretty things
Empty out
Just a dead clump of
Drippy drip, drip
Sweet honey liquid
The beat, beat, beat

Stops

Gone.
Out of order.
No one lives there anymore.
A vacant sac of dead...