THE GAME Minh Nguyen 8th Grade • Daniel Boone Elementary
We enter the game, set to win You ought to become the best We institutionalized the idea that for one to win, another must lose In every way, shape, and form, the top-tiered shall live the greatest We let power and protection blind us We let the strive for perfection drive us Never minding that the throne is worthless if you’re up there alone Your invincible bubble is worthless if outside of it, people continue to hurt We always thought that becoming #1 would mean you lived to the fullest And that may be true But what’s #1 if every number less than didn’t get to live at all Now, that does not mean that we are one another’s responsibilities We are one another’s gifts We hold on We hold on to each other Because to truly win, you don’t rise alone
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