Being a winner in life? what do you win?

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When your a winner in life
what do you win?
is there a prize of some sort
when you cash your chips in?

if your a loser
then what do you lose?
and does that make you a winner
if you like playing the blues?

is it all not just perception
which depends on the world
sharing
the same value system

to be able to distinguish between
those who are losers and those who win

all people need to be playing the same game
but i don't remember signing up for any of that
nor ever being declared sane

if your a winner
what do you win
and what have the losers lost
in this game were all not in

is being a winner
not that different
to those who lose

apart from the losers
are better
at playing the blues

Very profound!

That pretty much nails it, the winning and losing in this life in this world becomes irrelevant when this life in this world ends.

Well yes, the notion of being a winner as a person doesn't cut it for me either. I guess it's a term used by people who want a world in which everybody competes to grab some set of absolutely desirable things from each other, and who want to identify those who are consistently the most and least successful in that contrived game, so they can glorify and vilify them respectively.

Or as Krishnamurti said more succinctly, "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

The people who wrote the rules are the one's who define who is a winner and who is a loser. I try to make my own rules and play my own game. It sometimes works

I won a general understanding of poetry. I had thought it was obsolete once writing became common. It is easier to remember than prose, and has error-checking built in, but it makes it far harder to find words that express a given thought. The chance associations of rhyming severely limit the available messages.
Then, I noticed people repeating a short, rhyming phrase of political opinion that they could not actually explain in other words, and that took longer to say than the non-poetic version. I think that the appeal is based on our many years of having only oral language. If someone says something in rhyme, the odds are better that they have remembered it right, so we still value it more.