Jokers

How big the head,
needy the mind,
small the heart
from fear,
that demands to hear 
thank you.

Oh dear        [one], 
How hard for us to see,
we have no cards left to play.
They have all been turned
face-up on the table…
   all jokers.

Maybe someday we will 
care enough to ask how it feels 
to play with no hand at all.
Maybe someday we will 
see how much we lost 
that day we [said we] won.
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Author: David Pierce

I'm the one on the left. That's my favorite part on the right. I'm an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ. I work as Minister to a parish community in Cumberland, RI. That I could also see myself as a farmer, a cowboy, or Thoreau sitting pond-side at Walden is probably not insignificant. I don't blog about anything in particular, but everything I blog about is particularly important to me. That it may be to you as well is good enough for me.

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