Game of Hearts

I was playing Hearts the other day - and losing - and I was struck by the symbolism within my life.

 

It was just a game of Hearts –

With its fifty-two cards

And four suits,

All coming together

As four separate people

Played through the night.

None of them had known

Any of the others

Before this, but that

Did not matter –

They were not there

To socialize,

They were there to play.

 

And play they did,

 Through the night,

Dealing out their

Fifty-two cards

And their four suits

Into four perfect hands,

Filled with thirteen cards apiece.

Thirteen magically unlucky cards,

Filled with ill-fated doom

For three of the four people

Who bet their lives

In a game of Hearts.

 

How symbolic –

That while the four people

Threw the cards upon the table

In the never-ending game of Hearts,

They were also betting

Their real hearts

In the never-ending game

Of love.

 

And how symbolic also

That three of those four

Who played through the night

Would lose the card game –

For three of those four

Would also lose at

The other game as well.

 

Reviews

[fireblossom]

You are so interesting. There is a Rod Serling quality in this poem (a high compliment). In the last few things I have read from you I hear a narrators voice. Very present, firm and guiding. Also very interesting.

You have passed "the I wish I could meet her at Starbucks for coffee" test. I'll bet many of your readers feel the same.

[bluessadmood]

yes though its only a game we will have to think of how symbolic it is ,for only three of the four players in life or just the game,three will lose in this endless game of love ,also ironically these three will also lose in their love life too ,although i think ,only i think ,it may work in an other way ,when life plays too ,it will never let the winner the fourth to win it all for sure she will make him lose in love life if not in life as whole ,life is wicked i know,she will never let anyone win all the way ,thats her way of dealing things ,she let you win once and lose lots even lose your best ,she will never let you too much happy ,on the contrary ,once you were made happy even in a game then she will hit hard that you will never know happiness again too bad this life,i know ,i know...

[robin]

You do love the irony. Makes me have hope in humanity! This was an odd but good chuckle, and very devious!

[Rambling Prose]

WOW! A very interesting take on the game of hearts. I loved it!

[Jacob Stinnett {Broken ..]

i rather lke this one.

four players, three losers, and their fate entirely out of their own hands.
does this suggest that the winner is in control or is merely fortune's favorite?

[Andromeda]

LOVE it