High Stakes - Salem

Sometimes the picture on the wall

is nobody at all

it takes you as you fall

Sometimes the faces that you see

are lost in fantasy

they’re intoxicating me

In cold light of day

the games that you play

will mean that you lay

high stakes

Sometimes the steps that you must make

to make sure hearts don’t break

are impossible to take

The prize that keeps eluding me

is there for all to see

The cost is sanity