Hide and Seek

Think me foolish, a perversity
Open declaration of philosophy
Here it comes, a whisper of "Ready or Not"
Find it, or die trying.

For in this game of discovery
We seek not what can be seen
Listen, ill boding in the wind
Nay, just a glimmer of ecstasy

A flash of hope, here and gone:
Here to remind us of our fate
Gone for the fool who perpetrates
Law that is lawless in this farewell

But now you play, and remember
A time when this game was simpler
Realization of less than serenity
Demanding acceptance true and fair

Now hide if you will, for it will find you
Seek if ye wish, an evasion inevitable
At this game's end do not cry to me
When it was your vanity that was your end

Catch Me If You Can.