They Hide Within or Outside

I am but the puppet within my dreams

I’m yet to know who pulls my strings

Somewhere the puppet master hides

within me or outside

My voice is silent and not heard

Then from afar a voice is thrown

My lips move and words are formed

Somewhere the ventriloquist hides

within me or outside

A silent movie is my dream

My life just a silent picture,

still and framed, my stillness

becomes motion frame by frame

Somewhere the animator hides

within me or outside

It’s said I have free will a life of choice

Yet who pulls my strings

Who gives me a voice

Am I a still frame or in motion

Somewhere the puppet master,

Ventriloquist and the animator hides

within me or outside

Somebody sets my motion

Somebody gives me words

Somebody pulls my strings

Who?

Long John