Choices And Chances

• Annabella Merakis, Grade 6, St Joan Of Arc School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Read Write Repeat 2015' competition

Laugh at the winners that cannot comprehend the fact that they are pawns in a game of chess
Pray for the sinners who walk into the revolving room of death and never walk out
If you try to escape God's torturous tournament
A roll of the dice
Will seal your fate

A child looks up to her mother, salted words of innocence, cascade down her angelic face
What did we do to deserve this?
Her mother replied with a blood curdling look in her eyes
Heaven and hell are places on man’s despondent earth, we are just trapped inside them
A merciless game for wicked children afar
Play the game well and you shall pass, but play the game wrong and you will perish
And perish, will you fast