Resources for Loss

"If It's Just a Game" by Sandile Msane, contributed by AJ Lopez (2025)

At first, the real-life representation of shame and the overwhelming weight of loss shows how painful it can be to lose someone. The visual of a bleeding heart and the struggle to breathe emphasizes the physical cost of anxiety. The repeated question, “If it's just a game,” acts as a sad theme, emphasizing the gap between the general view of sports as just entertainment and the reality of the care to which athletes commit in their career.
If It's Just a Game
by Sandile Msane

My head drops with shame,
Shoulders can't bare the weight.
If its just a game,
Why then does the loss feel so great.

I drop a tear for every mistake,
My heart bleeds with every breath that I take.
If its just a game, 
Why then do I feel like changing my name? 

Perhaps its how I lost,
Not what I lost.

Maybe I didn't fight hard enough,
Maybe I wasn't strong enough. 

Maybe I gave up easily,
Maybe this fight wasn't for me,
Maybe this is how it was meant to be,
Maybe God is testing me.

Maybe I'm going insane,
But how else can I this feeling explain?

Why do I struggle to catch my breath,
Why do I keep embracing the thought of death?
Why do I feel so much pain,

IF IT IS ONLY JUST A GAME

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