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The End
This is the end, just not how I desired
Defeated in a game I played alone
Yet I am not allowed to shed a tear
And there's no one to accuse but me.
I don't despise the loss I bear
I despise your victory, shared with someone else
I would have given you every win
If only I were there to share it.
Not even a consolation prize for my loss
The loser of losers, that's what I am
I accuse you, though it's all my doing
You don't even know my world
That is why I deserve to lose.
Would you have played the game with me
If I had dared to ask?
Would you have shared your win with me
If I had dared to ask?
What would have been different
If I had just dared to ask?
Perhaps somewhere else, sometime else
We would play again
I would ask you to join
I would lose
But you would be the prize I truly win.