How's your string puppet?
Does she follow your lead?
Does she dance all the steps,
at the right time and speed?

Does she follow with grace,
the move of your hand?
Does she twist and she twirl,
as fast as she can?

Are the moves that she makes,
as you wrote in your play?
When she's done for the day,
does she go on the shelf,
to be out of the way?

Nothing more then a cold wooden toy,
when you're out on the town.
Does she dance back to life,
when she's under your hand?

But,... you know,
if your puppets not laughing
or behaving just right,
if you pull on her strings
and she seems to tug back.
Maybe what you have
isn't a puppet at all
but with bones, blood and flesh,
a real human girl.