To Bluff.
Playing poker. Losing, winning? No one knows.
Don’t ask to play cards
Unless you know that it’s hard.
I laid a bet thats how it would play out.
You don’t need a whisper or shout
To see a winning hand laid about.
I’m broke and could not master it
So I kept playing.
Something kept me trying.
Someone slowed me down
I sleep when I think
At least I lay down
I don’t sleep when I think.
I move to fast and I move around.
Then everything slows down
And I don’t know what to say
I feel what I feel
And I can say what to say?
If there was even anything to be said at all?
But I feel all
A long road.
So short but so far
I’ve spoke of destinations
Yet I’m tired of cessations
And it’s a road I have to drive
As I have to feel alive
I must feel alive
Life cheated
Life gave me a bribe
And like a rookie I took it
I got feet that can’t travel.
I have a life to unravel
No one pulled me from the saddle
The horse was suppose to take me further
And instead the horse went to what was familiar.
I woke up on it confused and then I shot her.
And her leg was not broken
I asked her first if she had to be joking?
So it’s hard
I drew the wrong card.
Ace of spades can trump the ace of hearts
Why does that tear me apart
I’m tired of clubs they drag me down
and I never wanted diamonds
As I have not one to be found.
It was never me.
I’d sell it for a single word
Maybe even a sound.
I get it
Don’t I ever?
Why try what you apparently can’t?
I move when you move
I move when you move a card
I watch first even though its hard
Should I say it another time
Hear that now? Or should I rhyme?
And Everytime
I lose.
Because there’s a choice that’s hard to choose
I Try to let go
But I’m frozen in place
And it is not my choice
I can hear my screaming inner voice
And I can’t alone but oh both could
Stand up from the table and perhaps they should
Easy, as I make it impossible
Isn’t that just like me?
I make myself suffer
Its almost like I love it
Make me suffer
I need no buffer
I don’t need a cover.
But I want that which does.
Forget it? Impossible as it just grows.
Have it? Who really damn knows?
Give in or give up?
Why are both so hard?
Don’t tell me that’s just how it goes
Why does one card lay high
an the other always lays low?
The dealer wins
The player loses
The bad guy chooses
And the cheater refuses
The house was always of cards
Blown down by a hiss
But somehow, still this.
don’t they say the house always wins
Whose fault is that? It’s my great sin.
As I’ve always got a card up my sleeve
When Im told to play it
I’ll leave a table only once, I believe.
If you got nothing to lay down
Or a need for nothing to lay down.
Unless one does.
Otherwise, I’ll see you around.
But that’s how it goes is it not?
A triangle is not a circle
How I wish it was.
But your philosophy
Sounds negative.
You know how to play the game.
But not with the same directive.
Subtle too strong
Strong too subtle
I’ve no rebuttle
I’ve no jury either
Which is why I ask why Its criminal?
When we are both wearing a cuff
Souls tied are you surprised as I?
it Is this just another bluff?
And say what?
What am I suppose to say?
I hear the language of the souls but do they?
You aren’t listening.
can’t hear it at all.
Give in or was it ever there at all?
Or is there a liar at the table?
My horse dead in the stable.
I’ve got no way to move or fall.
But my intuition screams, my intuition calls
But intuition while rarely still can be wrong.
So Giving in and giving up?
Choices to make driving without a lamp
Through a thick fog
It’s all fog, it was all fog and damp
Was it withering all along?
Or is something there still growing?
Im broke so I can’t bet it.
I’ll make the bet anyways
No one should have the guts to look me in the eye on these days
even though they are sparkling like a child
Your not seeing it or your ignoring it mild
I May as well just put it in a folder.
in the back of a file.
I get it. I’m a miracle mile
To someone who only believes in a curse
Touch my soul and I drag someone under
And I wonder?
why so many look the other way
Have you anything left to say?
I knocked on the table and made the call.
I’ll wake up one day
Won’t we all?
You know I don’t care
I’m not afraid. I’m not scared.
Ive said ive been there
Yes it looks familiar here
And I cant shake it
But I could take it.
All it takes is clear the fog
Because I know what I want
I clear the fog
I played my cards
And that’s all I can do
As I have a survival instinct
I’ll just take that drink
I clear the air.
But I can’t your fog
But because I didn’t know
I give up.
Should I not?
I shuffled the cards
Laid them out
The best way that I knew how
No royal flush
Everything was too hushed.
No it wasn’t straight, nothings out straight.
But I kept my queen of hearts
Hoping for the set.
And it tore me apart
instead I got two of a kind
Of the lowest kind.
All I’ve seen are obvious signs
You must be blind.
Or it’s just not on your mind.
Just stand up and leave.
All it takes is clear the table
Put out the cigar
Clear your fog
As hazy as a Friday night bar
All I’ve seen are obvious signs
You must be blind.
Or it’s just not on your mind.
Just stand up and leave this flaw
Or tell me what I thought I saw.
Up is down then down is up.
But in my hand Its what I didn’t get.
This hand that made me take the bet.
Give me a reason
But let’s be honest, you won’t.
Cards played, bets made.
Lost all my chips. I lost the ace.
And everyone has on their poker face
I feel I have to rest my case.
Until you sign off your debt.
When you have finally had enough
I know you know I’m lying on a bet
So I guess you could just call my bluff.
C.R.Stanger
(C)(2023)
I play poker but I didn't think I could slip out that many poker metaphors...this is different for me ..so I'll take it ...never wrote In poker metaphors so yay...if i hate it tomorrow Ill fix what I hate ..part of the process as usual. I wrote this extremely fast.
Site didn't have pic for this except a weird one so I took one from net. Virgil Solis
And it's too complicated to go into any explanations...decode that.
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