Game of Ice

A game lay on a shelf in the store

The only one, laying crooked

I need a new game for tonight

Everyone’s coming over

It sounds fun enough

Journey through the jungle

Journey through the tundra

Keep your team alive

Don’t lose the leader

It’s on sale

I buy it and take it home

When my friends come

We open the box

And set out the board

I grab the dice

And set them on the board

And the game begins

The world around us shifts

We are no longer in a room

We are in a jungle

There is little light

We walk along a path

Though there is none

And we find a building

Made of gold

We walk inside

The torches light the way

I grab one, so do my friends

We enter a large room

There are monkeys everywhere

They attack us, we try to run

It’s impossible to run

There are too many

I pull my friends along

Through the monkeys

We find an exit

We jump through

Onto ice

Snow is blowing

As we slide on our sides

Across the ice expanse

Stopping as the snow builds

I get up slowly

And pull my friends up

We are in the middle of nowhere

I lead the way

We assume I am the leader

Since I started the game

We start across the barren

Ice land

Hills begin to emerge

There are stairs on the hills

With a step drop off

On the right side

Arrows fly and knock us down

I run off the hill with the others

Along the forest

Trying to get away

We come to a cliff

The arrows are still after us

We begin to climb down

Into the dark pit

There is a cave below

I can see it

I swing down and swish

I’m out of the game

And so are my friends

We are out of breath and shocked

We stare at the game board

And I quietly put it away.