932 - The Game

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #269) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

view, needles, breeze, sky, mist, spill,

bridge, still, trail, trip, trim, fill

The Game

It is a game.

Played with needles.

Played with a view 

To getting a response,

To rattle a cage,

To bypass reason

Into the uncontrolled

Realms of red mist,

Panic and confusion.

Hunting season.

It is a game.

And you play it well.

Correction—

You play it often. 

Have for years, probably,

But familiarity lessens

Its effects.

But still, you play.

Maybe it is all you know—

Follow the past trails

Of successful sorties,

Successful campaigns.

Following the rules,

Your rules,

Trimming them

As needs must.

It is a game.

It has expectations.

Actions that beget 

Reactions,

Beget emotions,

Get emotions

To rise and spill,

To take control,

To make me trip,

To fill my mind

With nothing—

But the game.

It is a game.

But it is your game,

Not mine.

I can choose not to play.

Outside, as the bridge 

Between our worlds

Decays,

The sky is clear,

The breeze is cool,

And the sun is shining.

I can smell freesias.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016

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