Dead By Daylight

I remember the first computers
It was just green on a black screen
Words or lines, five inch floppy disks
And shooting tanks in the computer lab

Was it forty years ago
Never shot another tank
My reflexes died along the
Neurologic paths I discovered
There I was, with nothing I worked for
Alone in a different culture
No one, nothing

There was a cute girl, said I'd
Like Dead By Daylight
From my callous sense of humor
And gothic demeanor
Dead by daylight
So I took the money spent
Bought the PS 5 and found
Myself running, cheating death
Death so near, escaping
And not escaping
Each death a little closer to the real one
Each failure not so gentle reminder
My past will not be reconciled

And I found myself desperate hours in
Mostly running the perimeter
Mostly ignoring NPC's
To find myself cringing
Can't repair the fucking generators
Can't survive the night
And I saw them realized
These are real people
In a real game
Counting on me, newb with fear

Of the unknown
She said to hide
She told me where to hide
I hid, she fought, she sacrificed herself for my on-life
It was a real person from a real screen
Living and breathing, wanting me to live
Giving such a small thing meaning everything
On a night my generator's failing

And the enemy with a cold blue barrel
Bottle of St. Germain
Twenty hydro-condone
He's climbing the wall
Generator smoking
She was helpless
I was hiding
She gave her life
And I watched it walk away