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Corna Badenhorst Apr 2021
Life is a game and the game is called Monopoly
you almost always envy someone else's property.
Life is a game and the game is called Chess
sacrifice the Queen and the King can't care less.
Life is a game and the game is called Hide and Seek
you hid who You really are and then believe you are weak.
Life is a game and the game is called Boomerang
everything you think or wish comes back with a bang.
Life is a game and the game is called Solitaire
It is going to be lonely but shuffle the cards if you dare.

Life is a game and the winner is He who does not play.
Corna Badenhorst Apr 2021
even though i have tears in my eyes
i bit my tongue and said nothing
even though i tasted blood in my mouth
i cast my eyes down and said nothing
but yesterday i bought a gun
that is how crazy i have become
today i did not clean the house or cooked food
this will get you in a really bad mood
but for once i do not give a ****
waiting for the doors grand slam
to announce the master of my demise
my husband, but actually the devil in disguise
oh what a surprise await you my dear
for the first  time in your life you will learn fear
you will beg while you spill tears like a flood
you will beg while you taste your own blood
and you will never again see the sun rise
and i will not ever again have to listen to your lies

even though i have tears in my eyes
i bit my tongue and said nothing
even though i tasted blood in my mouth
i cast my eyes down and said nothing
but yesterday i bought a gun
that is how crazy i have become
today i hired a man to dig a hole six feet deep
told him i am going to start a compost heap
now i am sitting on the love swing in the back yard
close to the compost hole in which you will do your part
for the garden I am going to create in the next year
hurry home my dear
Corna Badenhorst Apr 2021
Every place I go; there I am,
doesn't matter how far I ran.
I look into the mirror;
and there is my killer -
contemplating
Every place I go; there I am -
waiting
Corna Badenhorst Apr 2021
Just me, my mind and the silence
All alone with no one an alliance
What to do – what to say- where to go
Standing in a crowd having an all-time low

Even if I move away very, very far
Even if you solve my problems whatever they are
Even if I lie in your arms every dark long night
Even all that won’t make everything all right

I can try and run but from my soul I cannot hide
Eventually caught in the blinding light
Of awareness of something greater than me
Trying to break through – forcing me to see

Someday I will have life all figured out
I will know what my destiny is about
But not tonight, tonight I am all alone
Slowly feeling my heart turn to stone

— The End —