End of Game

All ye all ye in free!

So we were called home

at the edge of dusk

when the lights were starting to glow

in the houses,

and the evening’s cool

was softening the sky

and we would all return

to the separate circles

of those lights, and our families.

Well, it’s getting to be

the end of the game

and all the chosen roles

and all the tokens

are swirling down the vortex

towards their fall —

What will we hear of next?

It’s a strange thought

that everything might be falling

but we can’t feel it

any more than we feel the earth’s spin

But there are signs

that the whole game is ending

so we are looking up

ready to be called home.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 9, 2013