THE PUPPET SERIES
The Puppet - 4
On relationships that drown out one’s voice and identity

This play is just a trial, just attempting a new step that may not be in sync with your straight-lined ways.
Just a new piece of my distorted, wooden ways — a misstep corrected, but unacknowledged. No, I'm not old, dusty —
just a bit more woodened by this unappealing take on the reformations I had almost choicelessly catered to!
Darn, yes, I know I'm a puppet, treasured, used to playing your favorite realities — and forever, shall remain so!
But, oh, but... There's no past whose hands veered me astray, no shadows that camouflaged the intents of the puppeteer —
no more reasons why I should take thy pulls, sprain my heart, provoke its woodenness to open the sleeping volcano of dreariness...
For what matters to me is mine to choose...
© Sana Rose 2020
Written on September 12th and 18th, 2013
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Sana Rose is an award-nominated novelist, poet, physician, counseling professional, freelance writer and mom. She is based out of Kerala, India. Her debut women’s fiction novel ‘Sandcastles’ was shortlisted for ARL Literary Awards 2018 for Best Author soon after publication.
