Master

I'll never win

Not if you're still here.

I'm still not sure why I stay.

If I left,

Maybe I could break free

And be something,

No longer in your shadow.

Everyone can see

I'm just not the same,

Can't measure up.

I break my heart over it

Yet do the same thing, 

Every waking moment.

I'm not only in your shadow,

I have become it.

Just a watered down version,

Dreaming of something more.

But for now, I stay the puppet.

And you, the Master

Of this show.

I dance

I jump

I fall

When you cut the strings.

Reviews

[Kara A. Laughard]

I really enjoy the movement of this piece; especially in the last three lines. Well done!