I sit down at the table, arrange my pieces, as you make the first move and the game begins..

Turn after turn, I anticipate your every move, I counter two steps ahead, I lay traps and you fall for every one of them..

Hours turn to days, days to weeks, the game keeps going on and on, move after move, victory looks assured, and finally I leave myself wide open, the move I always anticipate but can never prevent, and you move in for the kill.

I flip the board off the table and walk away, another failure, another loss, more time wasted in this horrible game, so I sit here and wait for an opponent who can meet me at my wits, counter my every move, anticipate it all, push me to the limits of my humanity, and finally, when I leave myself open for the kill in the inevitable move that I always make, I hope for someone that will ignore it and let me have the win I so solemnly desire.

So I can walk away from this dreaded game I play, this horrific yet addicting game that pushes every facet of my being and turns me into something else, someone else. This dance with the devil that forces me to fall time and time again into the same traps I lay for myself..

I pick up the board, sit down at the table, arrange my pieces, as you make the first move and the game begins again..