GAMBLE


gamble
dice rolling, cards shuffling, coin flipping
taking chances, nothing for certain
fall in love
ask her the questions
hurt, laugh, cry, shout for joy
no safety net
no promises
no guarantees except death

chance
one in fifty, one in a million
statistics, percentages, probabilities
don't worry, it will never happen
but it always does
god playing dice with the universe
but who loaded the dice
stacked the deck
wrote my epitaph before I was born

luck
I win
you lose
so whose luck is it anyway
he keeps calling heads
winning
she never guesses right
is one better/deserves it more
favored by the gods or god
or whoever is in charge,
if anyone,
anything is
or is it just blind randomness

fate
is it written, etched in stone
so that we just live out a madman's script
until the final act
the final scene
or can we improvise, rewrite the ending
change our luck
our fate
our lives