Happiness -- what life is all about, 

right?  And what can take us there, 

each of us an individual trail

through the brambled and bushy woods of the world: 

my path? Board games -- 

my own board games, 

projects of grand proportion 

thoughts brewing for months, years, 

painstakingly shaped and carefully molded

by friends, family, strangers, working with a vision

until all the gears mesh into a streamlined model, ready --

taken to the grand companies of strategy

for inspection -- maybe a flaw here

maybe there

maybe too many -- 

remodeled seemingly to the end of time 

before published, the satisfaction of running a marathon

painted on my soul.