The Game Poem by Apolitos Kanenas

My life
Is a game
Unfair
Never to be won
No matter how much I try
I am always stuck
On level one

Monsters lurk
Around every corner
Waiting
To kill me
And have me start over
Every time I die
I cannot see another way
In which
I could have
Changed things

The game changes every time
Throwing new hurdles
And adding different beasts
And new mazes to get lost in

First try
So close to the end
Boss battle
Boss: and addiction
One stupid choice I made
Started and addiction
made me lose

Try two
The addiction was still there
So I tried to get rid of it
But around the next corner
It jump out at me
Dead yet again

Try three
I get someone else to help
But they struggle too
With there own sins
And their weight
Slows me down and
Addictions
Back again
Dead
Yet again

Fourth try
More friends
More friends with their own struggles
More weight
Died much faster

Try five

Six

Seven

Eight

Help me

My life is a game
With no way to win
And no way to quit
And everything is
Against me
The struggles of my friends
I cannot help them
Sometimes I wish
I never had them join the game
The game of trying
Then losing to addiction
Every
Time

That's all addiction is
A game
No way out
Always to come back and kill you
Smother your efforts
And leave them to rot in the dust
Again
And again
And again
And again

Try nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Help me

Do I just give up



Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Help me

And I lose count
So many times I've tried
And each time I die
Sooner than the last
So many times
I'll be trying to get past the level
level one
Again

Again

Again

Again

Help me