What is the game?
How do we play?
Whose rules are they?
They’re mine —
no, they’re mine
not true, they’re mine!
Play as I say, or
we don’t play at all!
Can’t I ever choose the game?
Can’t I ever set the rules?
I play others’ games
conform to their ways
agree to their plan
and lose myself.
Who am I?
What do I like?
What do I feel?
What do I think?
I don’t know
I’ve never played my game
never set my rules.
So, now I don’t know the game
And I don’t want to play
Copyright © 1999 Fran Woods
This page was last updated 05/04/07