Casinos

Lives tossed like expendable poker chips

at the world’s casino of political posturing

by electoral hands who unethically bet whatever beats

as their power gamble in control.

They think it unnecessary to have any justification

for the squandering in human antes,

even though they know the pot can be unexpectedly absconded

by someone that is utterly immoral

and regularly regards this regimen as a game.

 

It’s a wager with hearts that is unaccountably played,

ultimately achieving the pleasure of the better

at the sacrifice of those seen has uselessly redeemable

so they can be wasted unnecessarily.

 

With rehearsed tangential tones of sermonized rhetoric

their words rationalize why others are not allowed to partake

of this risk to those treated only as barters,

unto them comes the pain of being abused

just to be a bluff’s whim

by the one’s who don’t care

how unbearably their losses are

to those that are nothing more

than unimpressively valuable.

 

How unabashedly they shuffle the deck of chance

even though it doesn’t matter who wins the hand

since they never suffer the loss themselves.

 

Each time they visit the table of the legislative allure

what usually parlays is the nuances

in their urgently conceived strategy,

which ends after some one goes broke

though they will return tomorrow,

easily depending on the opportunity to use

another mortal as their folly’s fodder

since they view everyone else as their source for gaming.