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# Magician's Trick
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/magicians-trick/
- Published: 2025-10-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Were we a pair, two of a kind? Was that what we were dealt? Love, an illusion of the mind, spread out atop a felt by an occult, cape-wearing mage who waved his magic wand the cards reshuffling on stage and we, forced...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Were we a pair, two of a kind?  
Was that what we were dealt?  
Love, an illusion of the mind,  
spread out atop a felt  
by an occult, cape-wearing mage  
who waved his magic wand  
the cards reshuffling on stage  
and we, forced to respond,  
drawn to each other by the spell  
unable to resist,  
elated, giddy as we fell  
each mouthing: you exist!  
My preordained, my other half,  
my prompted, fated pick…  
The audience sure had a laugh  
at this magician's trick.  
And us, reshuffled in the deck  
still looking for our pair  
as life skips by each call to check…  
As if we weren't there.

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