The Game

Question

What game do you have to fail to win?
Where the lessons learned from defeat are more precious than victory?
A game played throughout history
By Kings, Queens, Presidents and people just like you and I
An ongoing spectacle viewed by everyone and broadcasted to the world
Where there are no timeouts or halftime
You just keep on playing till you die...

The objective of this game is simple
Your satisfaction is your triumph
The challenge...
Everyone is playing the same game
Competing, just like you for the same thing
Fighting for the same glory
For resources that are scarce
Trying to get their story etched in time 

This game will go on for generations 
Some will rise 
Others will fall to its rigours and hardships 
Leaving little or no chance to succeed 
There is are no dice, no wheel to spin and you cannot buy a vowel
Damn! 
That’s a hard game! Not even a vowel? 
No not even that! 


For the ‘game’ of life is not bound to any class, race, creed or ethnicity 
We all have the same opportunity to live, to be happy, to succeed 
Life is the most fragile, unpredictable, uncontrollable force 
I used the word force because there is power in life
And no matter how hard it gets
We go out of our way to protect it
Because it is precious



Which now begs the question?
Is life really a game? 
Or is it a gift
Same 4 letter word but with a very different meaning
Now the name of my poem has changed
And since life is such a special gift
Don’t forget to thank the creator of it daily 
Thank you God for life
Have you said thank you lately?