Dictators | Stalin |
The master puppeteer
gathers all his marionettes
for a grand performance.
He strides on stage
stern and in full control—
the undisputed only king
of their puppet world.
At times, old insecurities come to the fore, hand in hand with wistful memories of past lovers, loss, death and grief. At other times, I have bitter quarrels with God late into the night about sin, redemption and child-death; and when solace will not come, in despair, I run for shelter to life's true confessional—poetry.