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Lovers and Gamblers

There is a window to every soul The other side is meant to hold The many pains, Loss and gains,  Chaos and control. There lays the Joker face up Laughing amid the cards Broken glass Where death has passed Leaving a body among the shards. Can it be chance Mere circumstance Or fate that has struck this blow? We win and fail. Who can really tell? No one will ever know Why the tick and tock Of someone’s clock Stops suddenly and with no chime. A cheater believes With an ace up his sleeve He can trick even the hands of time. Across the table The dealer is able  With a shuffled deck to choose. And like Mark Twain said We’re already dead. “Lovers and Gamblers play to lose.” There lays the Joker face up Laughing amid the cards The broken glass Where death has passed Leaving a body among the shards. There is a window to every soul The other side is meant to hold The many pains, Loss and gains,  Chaos and control.

Copyright © January 2001 Jason S. Moore


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