The Game of Life

Can't think

Can't breathe

I want to float

but I only sink

Wrapped in chains

My ankles break

Their bloodied bones

are my own mistakes

My frozen mind

is filled with fog

I want to escape

but I can't get far

The door is slammed

The floor, it shakes

I fall to my knees

Just to feel them scrape

I catch the ball

to loose the game.

I'm always helping

but I never take

My brain is confused

with things of the past

My vision is filled

with ghosts and bats.

I think

I try

I don't get by

I weep

I break

It's my own mistake

And yet

I can't find

what I did wrong

what I can fix

anything,

that give me a glimpse

of my endless struggle of give and take

bend and break

wake

and try

to make it

but it's all just a game

the game of life

the game of strife

the game

none of us know how to play

so I give

and then I take