Hide and Seek

A Poem by sjunk

A metaphorical poem

It’s like a game of hide and seek

They’re trying to kill us all

But we won’t let them win, so we hide ourselves as if our lives depend on it because they do.

You can hear the grenades being thrown tearing up our town with nowhere to go

The only place I’ve known as home, my base. The place where I can finally feel safe

Even though our base has been destroyed I still find my way home

Although home will never be as it once was because I will never get to tell my mom I won this game

She lost the game, so the angels had to take her away

No one in my family has yet to win this game. Someone is always better at it than us

Maybe my destiny will be just like the rest of our family, or maybe I’ll win for once.

I hide with my brother who is too young to know where to go or the rules of the game

At the end of the day, I tuck him into his bed because the game is over for now

I wake him up in the morning so that we can get to our safe place before the seekers come to find us

But he doesn’t move. He lies there so still

I check under the bed sheets and I see no blood, but I feel no heartbeat

I collapse to the ground in tears

Those that hides don’t deserve to die because they’ve done nothing wrong in this world

I’m only 17 and he is just a mere 12, but we go through this every day.

I now must go on my own with no hope. My only choice is to seek because those are the ones that always live longer

Although, I realize that everyone loses at this game eventually. Whether they hide or they seek

This is the game known as life.