Comptroller or Controller?

comptroller
noun
someone who maintains and audits business accounts
synonym: accountant

controller
noun

1. One that controls: a controller, not an observer of events.
2. An officer who audits accounts and supervises
the financial affairs of a corporation or of a governmental body.
3. A regulating mechanism, as in a vehicle or electric device.

control
1. power to direct or determine; "under control"
synonym: command, dominate

and on and on:.
2. a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
3. regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc;
4. a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment;
5. the activity of managing or exerting control over something;
6 the state that exists when one person or group has power over another;
7. discipline in personal and social activities;
8.great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;
9. a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;

Isn't a comptroller just a funny name for controler?
A more controlling name:
"I'm not a controller, Lord, no!
Let's get it straight!
I'm a commander!
COMPtroller! It's different!
I have MORE status! I'm a higher up!"
A tell-you-what-you're-doing sort of guy.
It is a fancy name for accountant, too.

What I wonder is
how much stuff do we have control over anyway?
Oh, sure, the comptroller can huff around
launching epithets about recessions,
profits and losses etc.
Would we get it if we tried?
What do we really understand about the business model?
Less than nothing?

On the other hand there is the controller.
That I understand.

Comptroller or Controller, what's the difference?
We are out for ourselves.
What's in it for me?

Remember when Jesus suggested
we sit in the least important
spot at the table ...
Luke 14
8When you are invited to a wedding feast,
don't sit in the best place.
Someone more important may have been invited.
9Then the one who invited you will come and say,
"Give your place to this other guest!"
You will be embarrassed and will have to sit in the worst place.

10When you are invited to be a guest,
go and sit in the worst place.
Then the one who invited you may come and say,
"My friend, take a better seat!"

There was a point to this parable
Storyteller that he was,
Jesus pointed out the pitfalls of control,
and the benefits of humility.
I want to control the controllers.
I'm learning to let it go.

They can manipulate all they want,
I'll take my stand when necessary,
and get out of the way when not.