Competition

Since when was love a competition?
Complicated, yes, but at best a game of chance for two
I was blind to the battlefield, blind to the rival of whom I'd thought illegal
Since when was love a competition?
My toils were for naught; the judge, the object of my affection, was in on this secret too
He so favored her, my rival
My friend
I cry out in agony, why had I not known?
Is there not something more?
They call out "yes" together
So much meaning in so little
Since when was love a competition?
Myself and opponent, she far ahead for having come so late
Did she come so late?
Fair play is a child's game; love is not for the faint of heart
Trust is the gun, friendship the bullet
Love the blood that I'll never stop bleeding
I was never one for winning
Trying yields not always success; walk off hand-in-hand, who are you anymore?
Love is a competition
I wish I'd been aware