wooden dolls

a poem

we prostrate ourselves
before
characters
born
of our own
imaginations;
shadowy figures
demanding sacrifice,
a price
we set ourselves
in our
childish
understanding
of give and take,
of cost;
a farcical parade,
trapped,
imprisoned,
among building blocks
and paper walls
adorned
with
wooden dolls
given transcendence
by
the life
of
our breath.

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