The Game

It’s all just a game, you know

Every move, every point

A strategic battle with one master

A dictatorship

And you are all suppressed

Gripping tightly to every word that drips off her venomous tongue

She knows

She knows you’re falling for it, just like the others

She delights in your folly,

You’re helpless, feckless folly

Making you think you’re important,

Making you think you’ve changed the game

No one will ever change the game,

Until they decide not to play

She deals you like a deck of cards

Tricking you with those shallow lies

You want her to be the queen, but she’s just a joker

Always a joker

She tugs you along on her ship of pity

Hoping that you’ll be the remedy to her insecure game

But you’ll never see it,

You’ll never know you’re playing the game

But one day you’ll understand,

When your beard grows in and your mind gets wiser

That all along you didn’t play the game,

But she played you.