The poetic city: “The Lottery Winner”

The beauty of a walk into the unknown. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

 

 

The Lottery Winner

 

Having given into the urge 

to buy a lottery ticket 

when the jackpot approached

the billion dollar mark,

 

I now find myself staring 

at the ticket and resisting the urge

to check the winning numbers.

 

I am not yet ready to trade my life as it is 

for the life of surfeit that would descend 

should chance favor me. 

 

And I am not yet ready to give up 

my dream if it doesn’t. 

 

But most of all, I am not yet willing 

to give up the delicious uncertainty 

of not knowing. 

 

So, I will wait a while and enjoy 

the pleasure of being 

both winner and loser. 

 

Knowing that if I am a winner, 

I have so much to lose… 

And if I am a loser I get to keep 

all that I have already won. 

 

Reece  Burka

1/24/2021