TAKING CHANCES

Probability, the science of predictive guessing

runs through the veins of the seeker of adventure

Opportunity taken with a gamble for armour

improves the prospect of fortunate encounter

Embrace the chance and do for there is no try

Destiny's hand may yet turn with the unlikely bet

And the likelihood of finding a mark in the dark

maybe as random as an exit from a blind alley

 Fate grips the hand that throws the pair of six sided dots

But in the risk lies the potential, the thrill of discovery

of that which though accidental, exceeds expectation

Impossibility, the hazard of resigned existence

corrodes the living mind curbing desire to exercise choice

but Serendipity, the shadow that follows courageous luck

always turns the moment from fluke to awestruck