The hand.
Each person lives their lives according to circumstance
And to the hand of cards that life deals.
For some the cards show riches, love, success and joy,
And for others poverty and sadness.
It is impossible to restrict the description of life
To a few words on a range of cards
But it is also impossible to think beyond the closeness
Of words that come to mind.
Life is a tapestry of decks of cards, a series of games
With wagers higher than ever imagined,
And when the reckoning comes it is unlikely to be
The balance in the bank that matters.
The prompt today involved a complex set-up of making cards with words on and then choosing by chance which ones would be a prompt. In a world of finite resources I could not bring myself to attempt this, so instead took the idea of cards and worked from that.