Game

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Don’t you say it again,
I can taste your disdain,

I am more than your words,
Really! STOP, cease, refrain.

In my heart naught remains
How can this cause such pain?

But now something comes o’er me,
A dull roar, such RAGE.

Like that bird on the wing,
I am out of my cage.

So go choke on your words,
I won’t hear them again,

Not my rules, not your creature,
Not my pain, NOT MY GAME.

© Cathie Bagley