July 21
In the Game of Life,
I put the wrong blue plastic in my car.
I’m not sure why
I even chose the wrong car,
from the start.
And when it came to college or career,
I picked the wrong college.
And the wrong career.
And the houses I picked
always needed to be fixed.
Not in the fun way you planned.
But the foundations were damned.
As I arrived at each place on the board
I looked at what I could see
in front of me,
And chose.
Poorly.
But not now. Now I’m changing the board.
From Aggravation and Sorry
to D&D.
With magic and adventures and fantasy.
Now, I’ll make it up.
Every step, every roll.
Choose a character to be
And hope that it’s more me than the old me.
And maybe I’ll see
that the Game of Life
can be extraordinary.