Love Poem: The Face Cards
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Written by: Jerry Heldman

The Face Cards

The Face Cards (first version)


The table is set. Blood has been spilled

Rules have been finalized 

The devil is dealing the cards

They have been shuffled and dealt

I’ve been dealt a crappy hand

You knew it, you knew it all along

When you took my innocence away from me

You stole who I was, from me

From the place in my very own soul

You didn’t even blink not at all

You never thought about what you had just done

My life has been hell

Now I am seated at deaths doorstep

Playing poker to stay in the game of life

I will not fold until the last card is dealt

There is a wild card for me to play

I have an ace up my sleeve… I got this. I got it!

Someday I will get a part of me back

Still there a small part gone forever like a vapor mist

Hope now, you know, what you did to me that day

What you took I lost! 

Just have to hold on and play

Few more hands of cards

I will beat him at his own... game

In my heart, what’s left?

After you violated my little precious worth being

I know you are next to be seated at this very own table

Playing poker for the pathetic coward, you are inside

You see now, I have already seen your cards

There is nothing to play, will have to fold your cards

You will have to cash in your chips 

Cross over deaths threshold

How I did it, you ask? How did I cheat death?

He never saw the faces of my cards

The faces of people who love me

Who were there fighting for me

They minds were set in stone

Praying for me, out of love for me

They were not giving up on me

They all believed in me so much

Tell me then...

How then can I give up on me! On me! 

He never saw…

The cards I was holding in my hands