The Games We Played

 

When I was just a growing kid,
I played the games the others did.
we’d climb the tall trees in the park,
then kick the ball till it was dark.

 

We’d take a running jump to clear,
the deepest ditch, we had no fear.
We’d hunt for minnows in the stream,
No wonder we were never clean.

 

But there was one thing I recall,
a game that used to please us all.
The game was marbles, known as ‘tors’,
best played when crouched or on all fours.

 

To play we’d find a patch of land,
and scratch a hole with knife or hand.
That was the goal where we would aim,
to beat the others – win the game.

 

The ‘tors’ were round, of glass or stone,
rolled on the ground but never thrown.
Sent with a ‘thumb-flick’ true and straight,
to strike another with perfect weight.

 

Then in the hole, to shouts and cries,
to win their marbles, the greatest prize.
To loose your tors was hard back then,
so you’d try to win them back again.

 

Where are the games of yesteryear,
Just memories for us I fear.
While swords and bows were hand made toys,
it’s I T now for girls and boys.

 

Nintendo rules I’ve heard them cry,
while sending texts into the sky.
Xbox it seems beats skipping rope,
and for hopscotch there is little hope.

 

Goodbye to games we used to play,
they’re gone forever come what may.
let’s hope our kids with things like twitter,
won’t fill the skies with cyber litter.