Work as a Game of Thrones

the slights, the backstabbing,
the alliances and wars, the primo assignments,
the special relationships, the betrayals.
All in a day's work.
I never thought of that until you mentioned
it under a crystal blue sky, surrounded by
towers of rocks millions of years old.
The Game after all is as old as we
are, a few hundred thousand years
or so, we have only graduated from
loincloths to three piece suits, grunts
to sophisticated social media, caves
to cubicles.