By Stephen
Date: 2002 Oct 14
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the risk, the new, the old unchained

Living tears shimmer and
Egos shatter while fingers scramble,
failing to see the failure in your eyes,1
and the monopoly of me has started.

To the Queen of my hearts:
Life has been found upside-down.
The fluid rushes to my brain,
and you haven't changed

Except for love, lack there of
and clever poker-faces.
I draw my new cards:
You still hold them all.

Cutting the deck I walk on,
dropping ante with a smile;
I'd like my hand held,
but only when you'd know

how much this gamble means.
What implication it seems
has my life tongue-tied
in your dealing obsessions.

And I lack the proper expression
to atone a lover's definition
of how amazingly luring
you actually are.