Pull my strings
Make me dance
I’ll shower you with romance
Pull my strings
And make me say
Whatever you want to hear today
Pull my strings
Don’t let me feel
I know my emotions make you ill
Pull my strings
Make me promise
To bury the things I wanted
Pull my strings
Don’t give me space
I just may decide to leave this place
Pull my strings
Tell me how
Exactly how to feel right now
Pull my strings
Don’t let me be
Who I really am inside of me
Pull my strings
Keep saying no
To what I want, where to go
Pull my strings
Out of fear
Fear that I’ll get out of here
Pull my strings
You know best
Don’t let me live or let me rest
Pull my strings
You need control
To feel secure, safe, whole
Pull my strings
I’m your puppet
Not your equal, just your subject
Pull my strings
Put on a show
So none can see, none will know
Pull my strings
But now you’ll find
I’m no longer in your bind
The Sureshot 
Beautifully described; it’s a sad reality that so many go through this, being controlled and manipulated. The worse it got in the poem, it made me relieved it ended with hope. It’s truly powerful, especially when realizing that the right thing to do is to leave than to stay.
Thank you so much for the reflection. And yes indeed, the only way out is to leave sometimes. A controlling person will usually pull the strings harder when you’re trying to leave, but those strings can be broken.