Instinct

It's all so simple
another round of a game.
We rebel against the game,
you and I.
Yet we play it.
Maybe we don't have
as much reverence
for it as some, but
we still play it.
Part of me wants
to stop the maddening cycle,
but another part of me
wants it to go on.
Contradictions.
Do we play?
Do we roll the dice?
You know we can't
sit out this round.
It's not in our nature.
Play to win.
Play for the sake of the game.
Play.
Play because it's who we are.
Even when we tire of the game,
we continue to play.
That is our nature.

-- R. A. Melos

copyright 2003

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