Christopher Steven Coan Poet Free verse

To Span the Great Divide

How seldom do things work
     out the way you say
I haven’t any figures yet
     but i’m sure it’s rare
and happens less often still
     despite that incessant mind.
We cheer for things turned right
     and in our favor, fully
and totally, for all is well
     with winning tickets won.

The winning was always to win
     it was only a matter of time
before the losing came about
     with strokes of great precision
It was this all along, in hand
     with great hope to doubt fate
or destiny or some like word—
     ‘chance’ we have often said
(chance that we should master it
     and say it worth the wager
chance that you were holding
     some refuge from the loss
chance that i was out
     no more than what I cast)
for chance and hope alike

     to span the great divide.

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