Let the Games Begin

Posted by Brad Osborne on February 13, 2020 · 10 Comments 

 

 

To latest lover you say goodbye

Time to put on your game face

Unchosen and yet you know not why

Replacement love now the race

 

So back you are to the same old tricks

Desperate and so wanting

How you have always gotten your kicks

A vampiric head-hunting

 

You hate the game, yet you love to play

Need for attention unbound

You’ll start a new beginning today

To see if your worth be found

 

You feel like you are unattractive

And I know how that must feel

But your actions are just reactive

And what they bring, much less real

 

If you feel like you have lost control

Then maybe that’s the problem

For one cannot own another’s soul

Without fear of losing them

 

You should not need young men to tell you

That they still think you are hot

The last one that you went through

Isn’t that exactly what you got

 

Or is it just too hard to accept

That you may have played a role

Or is it easier to forget

If pretty words can console

 

Should you return to game-playing throng

I will wish you all the best

Needy boys have been there all along

And will treat you like the rest

 

To them it is just a numbers game

But wanting words you will find

The words they have written just the same

On profiles of every kind

 

But play the games, I am sure you’ll win

It is what you always do

To me, a reminder it has been

It’s the why I left you too

 

 

 

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