Dealer's Choice

This game that we all must play called life

Serves all with cards to play and trade

Or course, the luck of the draw is often cruel

To many, that do not deserve or need them, aces

Those that need more, often dealt nothing but deuces

Some cards we hold differ and some we all share

Dealt at birth a few special cards and told to keep safe

One card in particular told of at the right time, we must cherish

A card unique to us all, of purity and one of a kind to hold

Some care not for it and throw it away, some make it an idol

And telling others to idolise it too or else risk losing the game

Yet it is a card to be played in our game’s time, always with care

What does one do when this card becomes like a yoke on oxen neck

Weighing you, pulling you down into the sea of self-doubt and inaction

Or when one plays it, then regrets the move? Impossible to reverse

Should you not keep it safe until that moment the rules say to play it?

You both want to get rid of it and yet know it doesn’t affect the larger game

But if you want, there will be players to take it from you, collectors of cards

So will you play the card for short term win with the first available player?

Or hold on, hold the card hoping for that perfect hand that may never come

*This is not about playing cards*