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Puppet

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She no longer wanted to live. You could see it, see it in her dull,  
empty eyes, because they had the glassy stare of a doll's fake ones.  
It scared you to see that-- the way she looked was so inhuman that you  
wondered whether she really was alive at all. Or if she was real.

She would sit and she would feel nothing. Cold, hot, what did it  
really matter? She was oblivious to the world... Sometimes you weren't  
even sure if she knew you were there. She looked so loose and  
disconnected, as if she wasn't aware of the fact she had arms or legs.  
It seemed like each joint was almost seperate from the other, because  
she never moved and she didn't notice if something hurt.

Her face was expressionless, blank. It seemed like nothing was there.  
She acted, sometimes, as if she was happy or amused or confused.  
Normal reactions, because nobody really wants to see the truth, and so  
she hid it. It still looked off, though, as if she was reading from a  
script. You could barely notice it, but there were little things that  
tipped you off. How her smiles never reached her eyes and her laughs  
sounded so hollow. How her hands were so cold and her hugs so stiff.  
She looked like a puppet acting out its part.

She never cried. She was so consumed by the pain that it had taken all  
of her just to stay alive this long. Finally, she just shut off her  
heart, because the sorrow had burned away everything that worked,  
anyway. She was deadened by the pain... Everything became dull and  
meaningless, as if sorrow was her emotional Novocain.

She didn't want this pointless existence anymore, and so she ceased to  
want to live. She didn't enjoy being a puppet and she didn't like  
being numbed. So she just gave up in the hopes that it would end-- the  
lies and the decieving that all was done just so nobody would realize  
that she was just about alive as a puppet made of wood. So nobody else  
would hurt seeing her this way.

She just wanted it to end. Close the curtians and turn off the  
lights-- show's over, goodnight.
Goodbye.
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samsam594's avatar
I love this one!So glad you decided to post it!