casino tears

I should’ve quit first

Cashed out before you had the chance.

Won the pot before it reached its peak

Because who wants to risk it anyway?

But you folded before me

And won the game.

And now I lay

Drunken underneath the table.

Looking up

at your empty seat

Touching the remnants of your shoe prints

on the dusty, whiskey-soaked carpet.

Forever remembered as the one that lost

The one that didn’t cash in.

Because she didn’t want to just win the game

She wanted the whole casino.

And she wanted it with you.