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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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Just a Dummy

Just a Dummy

Words are not my own
wits hapless

That rendezvous
with the devil
sealed it –

Free will for love
I’d bargained

Ache of loneliness
too much to bear –

Now I’m just a puppet
ventriloquist’s dummy

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watch him work my strings.

(Image my own.)

Posted on May 1, 2021April 20, 2021Categories abuse, poetry, relationshipsTags abuse, domestic, poem, relationship17 Comments on Just a Dummy
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