Deal the cards!
My heart in shards

At the sight of the mysterious man
Sitting across the table's span

A curt nod he imparts, face masked in composure
I search his eyes for some kind of closure

Show me your hand beautiful stranger!
Don’t risk my umbrage and the game's uncertain danger

Trust me and reveal your deepest secrets
Don’t give me that poker face, stark and egret

My pulse is rising, anticipating your bet
Raise! He laughs trapping me in Devil's net

But I shall not give in, my hand is too strong
My life’s on the line thus I must not be wrong

Ah the bluff! If only I could call it true
If only he cracked to let the light shine through

Instead, he smolders an alluring wink
As if in coercion to make me rethink

Oh the audacity! Imagining me a slave to seduction
I shall not fold! No sir, I will have no compunction

When I lay down my hand and see your face fall
The chiseled jaw, haughty smirk, disappearing as if never at all

For your spades have been blunted
Your aces have been stunted

By my paper hearts' battalion
In the end it is I with the sparkling medallion!

I make haste to depart, my winnings in tow
Yet a magnet of love thwarts me in doing so

I turn to the man, whose eyes explore my own
And impart the inamorata's tease, hinting the mischief that soon will be sown

"Do not submit to temptation my love!"
I allure him with a pout with a gentle shove

Two can play this game of curiosity
Of enticement and lovely ferocity

Like gambling, this game of love is addicting
One wins and the other bets his heart, no predicting

The outcome is chance
Both players unsuspecting of the hand of romance

Written the cards, we cannot escape this fate
And thus we may find that at the gamblers' next date

We are inclined to break down our card towers
Cracking our masks, and revealing our affection in pure and bleeding power!