Losing games

 

1) Willing Fate

 

Life …its will to win

Get set…go!!

Over the obstacles…run run

Racing fate…

Falling back…catching up…overtaking

Aha! There is the finishing line

…Just a little farther says fate…. Cheering …jeering

Push it…push it

Photo finish! Fate triumphs!!

Because it decides the end

 

 

2) She and me

She smiled when I smirked at her flights of fantasy

"Wait", she said…"listen to me"

And I did…foolish me…inspite of myself

She didn’t get mad…no, she just hmm-ed

And got even

Today I stand at the crossroads where I had met her

On my way to higher goals

Where she had pointed out to me all I’d feigned not to see

Now she runs the race that I’d almost won

And I’m here…staring at the sign to nowhere

 

 

3) Entrapment

 

Should have known better

Than to rush in…where I had always feared to tread

But then I am no angel…and Satan has his ways

Now what? Waking up in a maze of my own making

Unmapped territory

And no game plan

Bail me out, you devil!

 

~ Swati ~

 

 

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