A hand full of cards
Perused with a hush
Just a King needed
For the royal flush
The next hand is better
This time no charades
Winning with four of a kind
A Diamond, a club, a heart and a spade
Then a pair of sevens
And three of a Kind
Another win coming
Goes through the mind
A straight, two pair, full house
Royal flush and double deuce
These hands keep on falling
There’s no way to lose.
The money keeps coming
And the stakes are raised
This is no bother
Smiling, completely unfazed
The weather awakens him,
And he huddles ‘gainst the cold
Pulls a blanket around him
and shivers, feeling old
A tear rolls down his cheek
As he thinks of his life
Taking cards over his kids
His house and his wife
He whispers sorry to the wind
Wishing he could start again
He would make his life different
And stop all the pain
He knows he can’t change the past
But he can help the others
The gambling parents
Sisters and brothers
He knows what he will do
People’s lives will be grand
He will call his new refuge
“You’ve Been Dealt A Better hand“
© A Forbes 2016
All images come from Google Images
http://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/
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