The players are ready!

On the board of mortality

it's your move.

In the play of life's playground

where checker-board thoughts

play out across a mastermind design;

moments are formed,

memories are lost,

unprepared we lose

in the final takings

when its time -

game, set and match.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Since it's hard not to be covid-obsessed when everyone is writing about the effects of this pandemic, I succumb to interpreting your poem in these terms. Here in the USA, everyone points fingers at who is making this worse -- who is doing what they "should" be doing -- versus who's doing what they damn well please (an American tendency that I possess, for sure). Your first two lines especially sum it all up. We all choose our preferred comfort level of WHATEVER in life despite how others howl & judge (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie