showdown and tabula rasa

Academy of the Heart And Mind

By RC deWinter

showdown

lucky in card unlucky in love
so old cardsharks say

the inverse isn't true
i play the hands i'm dealt

eights and aces
at the table and in love

so ante up you brash bold gamblers
i'll raise you every time

i’m the great dissembler
prepare to lose your shirts

my heart a poker face
cards close to the chest is my new game

i've given it away too many times
and learned the hard way not to smile

tabula rasa

pitch black eyes closed supine in a barren field waiting for the dragon of dreams nose open for the smoketang of singed stardust ears pricked for the great whoosh of leather wings craving the sharp but welcome spike of a talon lifting me away to where everything is possible i need to be there in the night for i've forgotten how to dream in daylight…

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