For the record

I never folded

I gave up nothing

Even though the deck was stacked

With half jokers and half jacks

Can't tell the difference anymore

Between a card trick and a cage trap

Seize upon their breathing

So shallow it betrays them

Oh woe is me

How can this be?

Dare defy death

How dare you defy death?

I am the bait in the trap

I am the sound of the snap

I wave my lure

And blare my siren song

To watch your eyes go blank

This incarceration

Is of your own making

And it will be your undoing

I saw the signals like glaring suns

Witnessed the seers putting blinds on

Use every last panic stricken breath

Race against impending death

Lament you had a hand in it

The perpetration becomes the perpetrated

Then it's time to redefine death defier