Monday, April 23, 2012

Hide and Seek

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When we were children we played
hide and seek on rainy days
finding places in the house
we never thought to enter:
the back corner of the closet,
mother’s cedar chest,
under the bed with all the dust bunnies,

between the refrigerator and the wall -
barely breathing when “it” walked by.
If we could sneak away
we raced to the safest place
but if we were caught
we were “it” for the next turn.

The more players the more fun
suitable for outdoors on grandpa’s farm
though dangerous with the occasional
black widow and rattlesnake
hidden away from the summer sun.

We played a different kind
of hide and seek
when we were grown

hiding behind masks in adulthood
passing as strangers
in a blood thirsty world of subterfuge
trying to make it in the world competing
for the right to marry, buy a home and
build a life for our children to grow.

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