GAMES

We’ve been playing hide and seek, but I’m not trying to win. I keep hiding and hoping you’ll come find me, but every time you wait for me at home base. But still I keep hiding and believing you’ll come running. It seems like I’m the only one playing the game. I’m doing the hiding and the seeking. You’re just waiting for me to figure out that no one else is playing.

We were playing a card game, but no one told me the rules. I kept losing over and over and no one seemed to notice, they just kept playing the game. Sometimes I thought they didn’t even know I was in the game, but then they asked me to come back next week. The second time I played I understood. No one was playing a game. The cards didn’t mean anything, and no one ever won or lost.

I was playing on a team, a winning team. We were good as a team. I knew the team well, but I didn’t know anyone on it. I didn’t know who was good and who wasn’t. I just knew we were a good team, but did we even need to be good at all? Who were we competing against? And what made us good anyway? We were playing a game that no one else was playing, so we could always win.