Let's play a game

"Let's play a game," Death whispers in your ears...After all, "it's just a game, it's all pretend anyway." References to suicide/suicide idealization.

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"Let's play a game,"
Death whispers in your ears.
roulette wheel,
going around and around,
spinning before the decision ends.

Once upon a time ago,
you lived in a beautiful pretend fantasies,
you were the princess, the saver, the hero
and every tale ends with
happily, ever after.

such a shame,
those lies, lies, and more lies
spinning in your head.
"The truth sets you free,"
someone once said.

How can the truth set you free,
when you don't know what's real or not?
when you want to be saved
from that old fortified castle
locked away somewhere.

Death doesn't leave
not until the game ends.
What the outcome is, you're not too sure.
After all, death whispers in your ears:
"it's just a game, it's all pretend anyway."

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[Paul Bell]

It's the only game with an ending.
Yet it attracts all sorts of people, all walks of life.
The ultimate pretend.

[Norman 223]

There are no certainties in life. That fickle thing called "luck" will always control the outcome on the roulette wheel of life. "Infallible" systems are no proof of infallibity. But hope is always dominant.