THE GAME OF CHANCE

Play song with poem, it adds so much
Song to the Siren by George Michael originally

The Game of Chance

I was falling off the the mountain top

I was splashing in the sea

When there came a tiny nightingale

Who sang her song to me

I was drifting like a piece of wood

I was drowning in the deep

When there came a mermaid siren's call

That lulled me down to sleep

I was plunging to a watery grave

I was descending down to hell

When there came a fish that made a wish

And said he wished me well

I was fighting death with every breath

I was longing so to breathe

When there came a cup that raised me up

But the cup was like a sieve

I was clinging to the sides of hope

I was ascending to the sun

When there came a voice that gave a choice

And I quickly made the one

I was dying when I met her

I was living when she left

When there came the day she went away

And I plunged broken and bereft 

And I don't know how to say this

How to tell you how I felt

When she won my  heart in her game of chance

As I played the cards she dealt

I have been a weary traveler

I have been a tortured man

When my mountains crumbled at her feet

And I was buried in the sand

I have walked the lonely desert

I have swum the cold black sea

When the voices whispered to my soul

That love never wanted me

But off, now, I hear the nightingale

And I hear it call my name

And when the siren sings, I know that I

Will play her games again.

For what is life without taking chances

And what is love but breath?

When she reaches her hand to this man

I'll choose that living death

I have seen the other side of love

I have known what few will know 

When love smiles at me with sunlit eyes

To it's embrace I will go

Even if it starts to die

And the world goes dark again

When all is gone and I'm alone

I'll reach out to love again

I'll be falling off the mountaintop

I'll be splashing in the sea

And when the nightingale sings her lonely song

I will know she sings for me.

©By Voo

June 24, 2017

6:45 p.m.

inspired by the poetry

of the great Leonard Cohen