Stay Alive Poem by Oluwatosin Thomas

I
Study the rules and know how to play,
Before you uphold the pads,
Lest, you die and you die for real.
II
Take the pads and play by the rules
Play on with your extra lives, Your decisions,
Hoisted on the plains of your hands,
Staring in your face as the fear grips you on.
III
At first it's impossible,
At first it's an illusion, , at first it's just a game,
Till you realize that your fate in the game is your lot in your existence.
A need not to play for fun anymore but to stay alive till the last phase is solved,
Do not drained up your extra lives,
But manage it to remain alive till the last stage is successfully completed.
IV
Do not die by your own submission
Or be killed by low life count,
For a game over is a life over
V
Life is a game, the game is life,
As we play by the rules.
One life, one soul and one body.
As we stagger in life's trigger,
But come what may, you just have to stay alive!