Card Shark

I think we look at it the same way.
Skeptical, yet hoping that this time
it might not happen again like before.

This is why you have me as you hold me
your wide fingers wrapped tight around my neck
pulling me in, pushing me over

Keeping me intact.

You’re teaching me about the tell’s.
They reveal that I give myself away too easily.
This I know and figure into the equation

as I weigh the fragile and the nasty,
not fully knowing which is which.