Games

Games

By Steve Loggins

3/3/10

We love to play, we love our games, we cannot live without

Some games to play, for many folks – it’s what’s life’s all about.

Some games are fun, some games are hard, some games are made to lose,

A game you cannot win is wrong, yet many want to choose

A challenge that they strive against, yet cannot ever win

But give me a game with a clear cut goal, with victory built within.

Word games, sports games, child games, card games,

Mind games, dangerous games, stupid games, Video games

Fantasy games, dating games, people games, power games

Love games, hate games, jealous games, friendly games

So many games that people play, with many reasons too

The thrill of the game or just to play, others want it to be through

The end of the game can be victory or the acrid taste of defeat

Or neither one; an experience that can, instead, be bittersweet.

Is life a game? A cosmic toss of dice or turning card?

Or is it more? Does it even count? Is living much too hard?

For it seems we all must lose the game, like tetris slamming down

Death trumps our ace, the rook wins the hand, his checker gets the crown

But there is more – the game is on – death does not win the hand

For the game continues on with life in an everlasting land

We have the promise that death will die – and we will not again

See suffering or the pain of life, our game will shout “Amen!”