Life
a gameboard

Each day, you role a die
& move your game piece
Hoping to move it forward
you pick up the card of chance.

Most often
you get routine.
Rub your eye.
Yawn.
Stretch.
No urgency in this card.
Just another move of living
you'll take for granted.

24 hours
another chance
Roll the die.
Close your eyes.
& hope.
for normality?

normality.
noun.
just another day
of what's expected
a state of the usual
routine.

Every fiber of being tingles
Lachesism.
To be plunged
into a series of obstacles
The core aches
with a hunger
for chaos.
A chance to evade
the eye numbing adjustment
into routine darkness.

Roll the die
with a sense of longing
for the storm.
It may drown you
but life
is a game
of curiosity fed risk

Take your chance.
Pick up that card.