Playing Poker Cards

OMYT

These cards aren’t for glass cabinets or tidy shelves.
They belong to the dim corners of a bar,
where the air is thick with smoke,
and the night has no hurry to end.

They carry the hush of forgotten hours,
the stubborn laugh against sorrow,
the quiet defiance of men and women
who play to forget,
to keep rhythm with the shadows.

They’re not for admiration —
they’re for weary hands on a wooden table,
for the lost, the restless,
the ones who know that even in darkness
a game can feel like a song.

For sale online from 4th October