The Game

I love games

With dice or cards

I will play

With tokens and boards

Games with Life

I will not play

For then the Risk

Is far too great

Life's too dear

For Trivial Pursuit's

Don't care for Ladders

Not fond on Chutes

Don't need the Aggravation

Can't afford to lose my Marbles

No one holds Monopoly

Of my head or heart

Sometimes it Boggle's my mind

That people Go to War

Allowing all those around

To take shots at their Battleship

I'm Sorry for their Trouble

I watch them Pick Up Sticks

And again pull out their Spades

To dig at people's Hearts

They wander through the Labyrinth

Searching for Candyland

Hoping for the Queen of Hearts

Stuck in a game of Twister

And end up holding the Old Maid

I choose to be the Mastermind

Determine my own fate

Placing all my Concentration

On searching for the Clue's

For soon I will have Uno

And I would like to win

When the last hand's dealt

And I hold the Ace of Spades

I don't want to hear

Checkmate

Sometimes we forget that life is not a game.  So many of us are always trying to win something.  We try to be better than everyone else.  We want to be right, and everyone else wrong.  We want to be the smartest, the strongest, the best at everything.  Life is a journey.  And the treasures are those we collect along the way.  The memories, the friends, our family, becoming the person we were meant to be these are the only trophies that hold value. 

When we get caught up in the game, we risk losing the best parts of our life and the best parts of ourself.  When we play board games, if we lose we can play again.  Life is not this way.  If you lose at life, there is no second chance.  And regardless of how we play the game, the end result is the same for all of us.  Life ends with death. 

So today, I put away the games.  Today I value my life.  Today I collect more memories.  Today I reach out to those I love.  Today I live. 

Care to join me?

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