PUPPET MASTER
From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose"
She lives no where,
has no coordinates,
she took me to the gallows,
tempted me in the garden
and my voice boomed.
I knew what my voice could do,
what power it possessed.
She showed me but I screamed,
I cried, sorrowful deep, pitiful cries,
tears spitting at God.
But now she,
from the center of nowhere,
decrees I fill the air with laughter,
she booms the call to contentment.
The Master instills in me
the gaiety of innocence,
and once free from desire
is birthed a joyous repose,
a unity utterly alone,
a limitless homestead.
From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose" - Sixteen poems written in a five day period after two years hiatus.
