Hide and Seek

A giant game of no-one-knows
Exhillerating
Exhausting

Tuck your thoughts in your pocket
Tuck your love in the ground

Burn the list of your dreams
Watch your hopes disintegrate
Into ashs

A list as long as a million towns
A million countries
But never as long as the list of lies

Lies that tug you
a    p    a     r    t

Into a million pieces

"Let's play pretend!
Let's pretend to be normal.
Let's pretend
That we're not
pretending."

My games are driving me

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                      g
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                             o  u n d

Driving me
I                     E
  N             N
       S    A

In the solitary confinement
Of a closet

And I sometimes wish
They'd finish counting to ten
'Cause I don't want to play
Hide-and-go-seek
Anymore.