I feel alone and so afraid, <br />no one to hold my hand. <br /> <br />I need to travel life's path alone <br />make my own choices, <br />decisions <br />find my own way <br /> <br />What if I make the wrong turn? <br /> <br />You always choose, <br />decide the way for me. <br />That's not my path <br />it's yours. <br /> <br />Who am I then? <br /> <br />Someone with no choices, decisions <br />or direction of their own; <br />a human puppet, <br />a female Pinocchio <br />who dangles from your strings. <br /> <br />I want to be a real woman <br />with my own mind <br />who makes her own evaluations, <br />choices and creates her own life.<br /><br />Judy Meibach<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-puppet-woman/
