Digital Loops

Digital Loops

When loops refrain, now digital
Outside the walls we stand
Fire stops us where we fall
Despite such earnest plans
Ideas of just swimming back
A fight to get downstream
A notion of a school we lack
Lost within a dream
A dream of finally fitting in
A scheme to find the one
You have to gamble stakes to win
... that's why I never won
Left swimming in a data stream
With chips, cold in my hand
Cards I had that might have been
Just good enough to stand
But too often the winners bluff
That game is not for me
Risk? Reward? It's not enough
What I've got... it's what you see
and so sometimes I just can't raise
The confidence to play
Even when the pot, it pays
Much more than it can say
With players faced, important, fought
Act cool, yet yearning more
A situation mordant, caught
From harsh stacked decks we draw
With different players in the game
New faces, different cards
You wonder, are the rules the same
To play your hand seems hard
Even when you see the pair
of aces that might be
Their face cards line up, poker stare
Suited unlike me
So in the stream I twist and turn
The fire walls, they raise
In hesitance my hand gets burned
and that's the way it plays
Flushed around the river's bend
Digital we weigh
Zeroes and ones, they rend
… outside the loop we stay