We Puppets

We puppets had to wait

To pull down the puppeteers

While the ventriloquists spoke for us

We had to remain silent

While we jiggled and danced

We had to plan

We had to communicate in secret

Or how else would we organise?

We had to invent a language of our own

Unknown to our manipulators

We puppets had to wait

For that perfect moment

We had to choreograph a dance

Made just for our puppeteers

To wind our strings around their hands

Tying knots at their wrists

So that to free themselves they'd need

The same scissors that would free us too