Game of Life
You played Hide and Go Seek
as a child and you always won.
You’d find your sister
hiding behind the couch.
She always hid there
and you wondered why she didn’t
hide somewhere else but the game
was giggles for her—not life.
Decades later now you play
the same kind of game but
you’re not seeking your sister.
You have to find him
before he finds you.
He has forever to look
and in time finds everyone
often to our surprise.
You knew your sister was
hiding behind the couch so
it was easy to find her.
Finding him took longer
but the game of life is
finding him before he finds us.
Because that’s when he points
one way or the other.
Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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