Games
How much of it is circumstance?
Not me, just some coincidence of right-place-right-time, some trick of the coordinates of my footsteps. What part do I play
in my life?
I like to think that there's no such thing as fate. That I'm the only one controlling where I go.
Roll the die. Move me forward two squares.
No wonder I jumped at the chance to steer myself. To test the limits of the rules, to see how far I could go.
Too far.
What do I do without direction? Where do I go
when I've strayed from the path?
I skip three spaces to the right.
No rules here. No boundaries. Nothing keeping me in, nothing keeping me
from falling.
Testing the limits only to find they aren't there.
One square back.
No wonder I've set up these rules for myself, these rigid walls I pound against
because I know they'll hold.
Didn't realize I was so easy to read.
So easy to control.
Roll the die.
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I like this. It's
I like this. It's very...doomy. In a good way.
(Random suggestion which should in no way be followed: the last line has so much potential, perhaps alter it a bit? Roll to die or Roll to try or something else. It fine as it is, but just an idea. I like ironic twists...)
Welcome back. It's nice to
Welcome back.
It's nice to return with a suitably apocalyptic mindset, no?
Always.
Always.
This originally was going in a completely different and rather happier direction, but it morphed into another depressing Usagi-musing by the time I got to paper.