On the Table

For you it was never

in the cards it has always

been too hard to keep them

straight or find them flush

the strain can be too much when

you are more likely to blush

than bluff even when you

played poker for pennies

with your grandma and

all the cousins seemed to

be having fun you shifted

in your seat at the intensity
and wished for go fish
a game of polite requests where
no one tells you to up your
ante and in the end

everything is paired up and tidy

and though you now see

the value in stashing an

extra one up your sleeve

when your only aim is

to please it can be so hard to

choose so you wind up feeling

like you are just shuffling the deck

chairs on the Titanic

trying to remember the

words of that damn Kenny Rogers

song praying to get to the part

where you can walk away

or please God

maybe even run