For the love of my life. It has always been you, my Hardcore Soldier. From the very moment our eyes first locked, it could only ever be you. We have played the table as friends for six years with tremendous grace while our adoration remained unspoken between us, now we get to go all in. Photography by Sharon Lawson.

Listen to Aces Wild by Richard Charles Stevens (Hardcore Soldier Suite)

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Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
♠
from sunrise
through the dead of night
the staircase winds to my delight
the ties of bind bid sweet release
each step a key to destiny
awakened from the skin i shed
to make a mound to rest my head
in bosom of the only she
who ever felt like home to me
so many souls within her keep
no more charmed hold of essence steeped
entreating she to set a scene seen fleetingly in treasured dreams
leisured to proceed am i
with heedful eye for feeder line
need not such sight anaesthetise
for mine is not to reason why
mine is not to reason why
♠
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
(Delight)
♠
All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
(Delight)
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
(Delight)
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
(Delight)
(Delight)
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
♠
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Face unchanging
Brave and wild
I would gamely fade to black
To hang my hat upon her fragrant smile
(Delight)
(Delight)
(Delight)
(Delight)
As has been the way
For every aeon we reprise
♠
Would bet on black to taste her red
To trace the tracks of tears she bled
Adhere to years of retrospect
That led me here
In fever sped
Her heaving breast
A place to rest my head
For all eternity
Yet she need never hear a single word from me
To see the gift of ceaseless love returned by me
(Delight)
(Light)
♠
I yearn to seep within cracks of her skin
Double back to enrapture each vein underpinned
To amaze in the stature of one so unhinged
From the framework of secrets and lies
(Delight)
Her eyes relay no cheap mistruth
Her heart bleeds grape of sweet vermouth
Confiding seeds of deepest root
No wise man would deny
♠
All of me
Is all I have to give
And I would give it all to see her live her life the way a reawakened child might play
♠
All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
Luck she be a lady on this night
(Delight)
♠
All in at the river blind
To see the lady bathed in white
For she has claimed a place inside
This liberated heart of mine
Falling
Rising
Tantalising every part of me inclined
To venerate a masterpiece
Defined
To braid each waking artery in twine
As we reprise our timeless maiden flight
♠
from sunrise
through the dead of night
the staircase winds to my delight
the ties of bind bid sweet release
each step a key to destiny
awakened from the skin i shed
to make a mound to rest my head
in bosom of the only she
who ever felt like home to me
so many souls within her keep
no more charmed hold of essence steeped
entreating she to set a scene seen fleetingly in treasured dreams
leisured to proceed am i
with heedful eye for feeder line
need not such sight anaesthetise
for mine is not to reason why
(why)
mine is not to reason why
(why)
♠
Living breathing hardcore soldier
Living breathing hardcore soldier
Living breathing hardcore soldier
(Delight)
♠
All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
(Delight)
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
(Delight)
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
♠
Living breathing hardcore soldier
Still unbeaten
Far more bold than tales of old foretold as She takes hold of fate and dictates play
♠
Living breathing hardcore soldier
Still unbeaten
Far more bold than tales of old foretold as She takes hold of fate and dictates play
(Delight)
♠

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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