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Marionettes
The room is sedated with Asian cuisine
The aroma of our grand opening.
Lines and lines of people gaze hungrily
Mingled with food is the distinct scent of inequality
The room is packed with people of different
Colors, Shapes, Sizes
They enter as distinct persons
Society created lines that control their every move
Some wearing furs, others wearing cotton
Some bearing the gifts of society; others bearing the hardships of society
Their papery faces stare back
They accept their fates without question
Their motions are plotted move by move
Their emotions are assigned feeling by feeling
All their motions in sync with the mastermind
Brainless marionettes
Doing diligently what they’re told
Can they ever break free?
Whether they’re told justice or lies
Their sight sees no farther than a rock can see
Even cuts on their strings are useless
The strings are part of them
Accepted, embedded like a leech on a skin
And the mastermind?
Society, I see
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