Card games…
Board games…
Video games…
Arcade games…
…
Mind games.
A game like the rest,
yet not a physical game in the slightest.
A game won by the best,
a game for the brightest.
Played with words,
crafted through kinesics.
It can hide in subtle girds—
sneers masked by conversation basics.
Designed to make you overthink every glance,
designed to make you feel inferior.
Designed to steal your every chance,
designed to make them feel superior.
Because every time they shift,
and every time they blink,
“Did I do something to cause a rift?”
is all you can think.
“So who wins the game?”
you might wonder.
But nobody can claim
victory in such blunder.
One loses their mind,
the other loses humanity.
Everyone loses in a way of some kind.
In the end, the game consumes all sanity.
