# First Command

Author: PoeticOtter
Tags: Hypnosis, Otter, Poetry

This is a bit of an odd poem, about someone attempting to be another's master through hypnosis and failing. I varied the meter with this, following the Keatsian Ode model in anapestic tetrameter. The couplets are in iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter with masculine rhymes. I feel the turn at the end is sudden, but overall I'm happy with this one.

Will the **trance** follow **up** with a **fitt** ing comm **and**?  
You are **truth** without **love** , without **hate** , just a **voice**  
Swing the **chain** , pendant **glow** , I will **foll** ow the **grand**  
Master **Truth** , Master **Love** , Master **Hate** , I re **joice**

And you **null** ify **thought** , breaking **will** , breaking **walls**  
What was **in** that old **gem** you held **up** to my **eyes**?  
Why do **I** ask a **thought**? 'Why' is **not** in my **head**  
I will **bow** , as you **ask** , Master **Truth** , duty **calls**  
I will **bow** , as you **wish** , Master **Love** , freedom **dies**  
I will **bow** , at your **whim** , Master **Hate** , go a **head**

Your **pup** a **waits** his **first** comm **and** , don't **wait**  
He **chose** to **lose** his **mind** , please **seal** his **fate**

**But** the **ma** gic **fades** and **I** re **turn**  
**Cry** in **com** pe **tence** , you **Mas** ter **Spurn**

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/GnDw4AGm