<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gambling (Last Card)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shuffled like a virtuoso -<br>A picador taunting his sly perdition<br>with his bloody caper <br>but there was no console<br>in defeating the beast<br>by becoming one<br>and with every fold and shamble<br>I lost my flimsy gaze<br>from you<br>Or was it you<br>who abandoned my frail hopes? <br>Regardless, <br>the tables had turned<br>and the dice<br>had rolled perfidiously<br>trouncing my gambles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The roulette fell<br>on its own vertigo<br>and the house of cards toppled<br>and in this speculated demise<br>I held you, waveringly <br>with a feigned assurance <br>for you are my <br>last card<br>and I cannot afford<br>to lose<br>in haggling and waging<br>against my wracking bones</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when I laid you, <br>in between the rapine<br>of all my machinations, <br>hoping for hope, <br>I laid you<br>to my defeat<br>I knew<br>that I lost you<br>with all that I earned<br>in our gambles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So in this roofless chasm<br>I wallowed against<br>the deluge<br>of trepidation <br>losing and losing<br>without a gamble<br>and no<br>condole<br>at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471272" data-title="Gambling (Last Card) de Norman Santos" data-description="I shuffled like a virtuoso - A picador taunting his sly perdition with his bloody caper but there was no console in defeating the beast by becoming one and with every fold and shamble I lost my flimsy gaze from you Or was it you who abandoned my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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