Life Story Poem Life , they told her, was a game one only won by the wise, and so she thought it was a shame, that no one made it out alive. Young she was and thus, believed, a difference someday she would make, every chance, she knew she’d seize, and never would she make mistakes. She thought she could win in fact, she was sure, because she was just a kid whose only weapon was hope. Years later, she realized how naive she really was, herself, she criticized, and hence, the game she lost.