Like cards in a deck
What was on bottom
Ends up on top
What was on top
On bottom
As fate shuffles
And shuffles again
Those with spades
Become kings
Those with diamonds
A mere single digit number
It can feel like the gods
Are playing a game
With our lives
Betting for
Or against us
Dionysus bluffing, again
Zeus folding with fury
Hera going all in
Hermes quickly
Taking another card
From the deck
Carefully matching us
Carelessly discarding us
According to their will
Though they’re not
Completely in control
Themselves
They are the players
Of the game
Will close it down
At some odd hour
Turn out the lights
And go home
Whatever changing value
We end up having
Marked on us
At the end of the day
Our stakes
Are higher
And to us
Even if we win
The house wins bigger
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