Musical Chairs

You're a saboteur.
You shut them down.
Why do you make them fall for you,
when you don't intend to catch them?
Oh no, you aren't all bad.
You gave them a push off the cliff,
Hoping to jump after them,
and catch them as they fell.
But you can't catch up.
They'll be gone when they hit the ground,
and you'll be falling.
Falling for no reason.
Falling all alone.
Who are you falling for?
The wind rushes past you.
The ground is coming up to greet you.
Look around.
Try to find someone to fall with.
But you can't.
All you see is the one you pushed below you,
and the one you wish had fallen above.
The one that was already in love.
You were too late.
You feel like the music has stopped,
and you were left without a chair.

But this isn't musical chairs.
In musical chairs, if you don't get the one you want,
you move on to the next one.
The chair never protests.
The chair is never jealous of your first choice.
The chair doesn't care whose butt sits on it.

Grow up.
Musical chairs is a kids game.
Look next to you, and say hi.
There's somebody there,
playing the game the teacher says you should play.
Take their hand and get away.
Leave all the sad children,
and make your own adventure.
Laugh and sing.
Run and play.

Run to the cliff.
Push them off.
They're falling.
You're falling.

......

Maybe you should have stayed a kid.