Gamer's Lament

The poem that resulted from my Creative Writing assigned prompt "Watch a person for one minute and then write a poem about it." This poem is about a person playing Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Compress the trigger,

Hit the brain,

Takes a step,

Death, a gain


Mundane miracle,

He's alive,

Got his gun,

Gonna jive


Dives through the window,

Hits the ground

Seeing red,

Looks around


Remote control car,

In his way,

Going to die,

Much dismay


The magic number

Has arrived,

No one wins,

Feels contrived