simulation

insert your name in tiny blinking blank spaces

pick the letters, pick the symbols

and pick it well for it will be

your name throughout the game

 

and if you're lucky

sometimes the system

lets you pick

how you see yourself

 

times you don't --

the system already has

a name for you

a gender, a body

your story laid out

and the story laid out before you

 

every day is a game of choice

pick the right dialogue

the right gift

the right event

to win their hearts

and win the game

 

pick the wrong ones

and get a bad end

 

 

 

every day in my life

is a game of choice

 

i watch the people come and go

i watch life from behind

my dialogue box,

picking the right choices

watching the hearts change

watching the people go

 

i banged my fists on the screen

and screamed, "let me out."

i like to believe i'm out

but i'm still bound

by the right choices

the changing hearts

the comes and goes

 

every day in my life

is still a game of choice