The Games We Play Poem by Ravinder Kumar Soni

‘Do not play games with me.'
We heard him shout.
But he always liked to play games with us.
‘You will lose me
And crash like the nine pins.'
We heard him say.
Why is this aversion now;
To his amusement
Did we not payback in the same coin,
Was he ever serious, ever considerate then?
No, he was not.
That our friend was growing out of childhood
To become an adult was obvious,
Weren't we too?
Do we not tease have our fun?
He forgot we were maturing at the same pace,
Nurturing same desires and aims;
He cannot be any different from us.
We are a team
As a team, we must perform specified works,
He cannot escape he is our nose;
Let us remind him he is the detector
He cannot go to sleep.