A Free Boy

Pinocchio dreamed and dreamed

"I wanna be a free boy" he screamed.

For he hoped to be a free boy

Not somebody's broken toy.

He was a puppet for others to play

Not with strings but with what his master would say.

I wanna be free.

His master was no one new

Just his stepfather with his old rules.

For he was a boy with flesh and bones

Yet treated as a puppet of his own.

He followed the rules he displayed

Even when his heart was betrayed.

I wanna be free.

The rules were simple he used to say

Just no lying or you would have to pay.

See Pinocchio was branded for his sin

Leaving marks all over his skin.

For his stepfather hated lies

Due to the truths it would disguise.

I wanna be free.

One day his pain was too much to bare

So he did the only thing he thought was fair.

He betrayed his stepfather's demands

And took his life with his own hands.

I am a free boy. Not a puppet.

A free boy...