By Ali
Date: 2003 Jan 21
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Pretending Games

I feel like a pawn,
Pretending to be a Queen,
Living one extreme, but lying
About the other.  I am undercover
Like the wind, yet I'm never there
To witness my own demise,
Even though I feel the pain of
Death and Birth,
One and the Same.

You look like a pawn,
But you play like a King,
An instinct tells me,
That you are more
Than what you seem;
I feel beneath this dull
Surface, this aching satisfaction,
Of either consummation
Or isolation--
Tell me,
Is it already
Game,
Set,
Match?