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Christy Walters
Christy Walters
In Life and Poker
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Life is like Texas Hold'em
Thrown a hand you plainly see
People circling all around you
Watching auspiciously for deceit

Expecting truth in the cards
Hoping they have dealt you right
Spying trickery all around
Smelling greed from left to right

Putting your chips on the table
Wishing it will bring relief
Fearing what daddy told you
Stay alert or they will deceive

Checking your hand like testing others
In relationships you invest your time
Calling on the other person
To leave their four of a kind

Folding their chance at victory;
Giving you an opportunity
Not to take the pot
Just to hope that someone out there

Would give it to you
Even if it meant sacrifice
And in the face of all the schemers
Chose you instead

Such is life and poker
Playing towards an endless prize
Addicted to the thrill of winning
Losing on the other side

Obsession with a fallacy
Friends and family leave you be
You fight for an opportunity
To be at the right place at the right time; flush in your hands

But what is it worth?
If you let it slip right through
By losing the trust in yourself that would have won you
Him / Her / Them

Losing faith in the cards you were given;
Not putting it all on the table
Even if you win, you sometimes lose
And in losing, you sometimes win

June 8, 2008 | 9:19 AM Comments  1 comments

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zainul Zainul Abedin
June 8, 2008 | 9:04 PM
EXCITING GAME OF LUCK!
Our life often revolves around games of chance.Sometimes we take part in them consciously sometimes we are compelled to do that.We never mind to lose hundred times in the hope of one trifling gain.But the greed for gain ultimately gives nothing rather than waste of time,money and resources.Thanks Christy Walters for depicting an exciting scene of life symbolising poker.
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