Gamble of life... (poem)

Roll the dice... Spin the wheel...
Fortunes are waiting to be won...
Will you strike it large enough...
Or will you just be done...?
The risks we take for love and life...
That decides if we live or die...
If we know that the house always wins
Then why do we even try?
If love's not a gamble, then tell me what is...
Are you ready to risk it all?
If you're lucky, you rise in love...
Then why do they call it 'fall'?
And if you're calculating the risk...
Not ready to bet your heart...
Then is it really love you want...
Or just an insignificant part?
But some of us go marching in...
And lay out our cards for all...
Only fools rush in they say...
And that's how the chips fall...
And if you think you can quit the game...
While you're ahead, oh you're wrong...
'Coz every time you win, you forget the stakes....
Even if you think you're strong...
And that's how you go on playing...
Hoping to make it big some day...
And when you finally win...
"You're so lucky!"... they'll all say...
But they don't know what you've lost....
And the chances that cost you so much...
They don't count the time you gave...
Your victories they will watch...
And you may win or you may lose...
Coz' life is a gamble my friend...
All it matters that you never gave up...
And stayed at the table till the end...