Subject line: Original: Poetry: Quantum Uncertainty

Title: Quantum Uncertainty
Fandom: Original/Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"
Rating: G
Length: 124
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Morgynleri encouragement & sanity-checking. Kenny Roger's "The Gambler" was running through my mind much of this challenge period, and is due some kind of credit, if only for keeping me focused.
Summary: All life is chance; seize the day.




Is skill or chance your lodestar?
Weighted odds or loaded dice?
Life is itself a wager
'Gainst firestorm and ice

Draw straws or cards or tokens
Court fortune cruel or kind
What auguries might answer
What hope is there to find

The sparks they will fly upward
The bones fall as they may
There's art to holding steady
Or stand and walk away

There's knowing and there's guessing
There's hope and having faith
When every day's a gamble
That sure thing is a wraith

So wager on the weather,
Count probability
Luck is no gracious lady
Nor lad, to pay your fee

Though gods sit at the table
The dealer holds the ace
In the stands or saddle
We're all part of the race